Cold front may bring snow to mountains
One week removed from triple digits, the Las Vegas Valley finds itself in the cross hairs of a storm that seems better suited for winter.
The cold front expected to arrive today could bring several inches of snow to Mount Charleston and low temperatures in the upper 40s to some west valley neighborhoods.
"We have a double-barreled system, this one even stronger and colder, coming at us," said Brian Fuis, spokesman for the National Weather Service in Las Vegas.
Forecasters expect the storm to bring wind, rain and unseasonably cool temperatures through Thursday. In the Spring Mountains, that rain could turn to snow above 6,000 feet late tonight and into Thursday morning.
At the valley’s official weather station at McCarran International Airport, the mercury is expected to top out Thursday at about 65, which would be the lowest high on record for Oct. 6.
Fuis said Summerlin and other parts of the west valley might not make it out of the 50s on Thursday.
Today’s weather system comes on the heels of a pair of thunderstorms that dumped more than an inch of rain on some east valley neighborhoods on Monday and Tuesday.
Fuis said there was "verified flash flooding in the east side" Tuesday but no reports of lightning strikes, power outages or swift-water rescues like those seen on Monday.
Clark County spokeswoman Stacey Welling said several motorists on Tuesday were helped by firefighters when four vehicles got stuck in a flooded area on east Tropicana Avenue at Steptoe Street.
The recent rain brought the valley’s official total for the year to just under 2 inches, roughly an inch less than normal.
Contact reporter Henry Brean at hbrean@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0350.
