Las Vegas gets toasty with another high-temperature record
While the city of Boston is blanketed by snow and under a wind-chill warning on Sunday, Las Vegans experienced yet another record high, according to the National Weather Service.
Sunday’s high of 79 degrees is two degrees higher than the previous record established in 1977, the weather service said. Warm enough to picnic in your shorts and T-shirts.
How much warmer was Las Vegas than Boston by Sunday evening? Almost 70 degrees, according to temperatures from the weather service.
The beginning of the year has also been the warmest on record, the weather service said. The 55.9-degree average so far this year broke last year’s record by almost three degrees.
So far in February, highs have reached at least 70 degrees 12 days compared to a normal of six days, the weather service said.
It hasn’t been much cooler overnight either.
Average lows in the valley are normally about 43 degrees, meteorologist John Salmen said.
A record with most lows in the 50s so far in 2015 has also been tied, according to the weather service. Temperatures are not expected to drop below 50 most of the week. The low for Thursday is projected at 55 degrees.
For 10 days so far in February, lows haven’t dipped below 50 degrees, the weather service said, compared to the usual two days.
Monday’s projected 74 degrees “probably won’t even get close” to the record Feb. 16 high of 81, Salmen said.
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