Rain dampens valley areas; snow reported on Mount Charleston

While not even a trace of rain had been recorded at the city’s official monitoring station at McCarran International Airport as of 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, more than a tenth of an inch of rain has fallen on the eastern and western parts of the valley.

Scattered showers and even a slight chance for thunderstorms remain in the forecast for the rest of the day.

The Nevada Division of Forestry Fire Station on Mount Charleston reported an unofficial snowfall of about half an inch before it turned back to light rain.

Temperatures are running about 20 degrees below normal. If the daytime high in Las Vegas stays below 72, which it is forecast to do, then the city will have established a new “record low maximum” (or coolest ever high temperature) for the date, beating the cool high of 72 on May 18, 1949.