The Mount Charleston forecast for Thursday calls for a 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Las Vegas has a 10 percent chance of precipitation.
Las Vegas Weather
Nobody was found in searches after reports of several people being swept away in two Las Vegas flood channel incidents.
Storms dropped enough water in Southern Nevada that homeowners should be able to keep their sprinkler systems off until next weekend, officials said.
About 150 Mount Charleston residents were left without power and water after 8 inches of rain from tropical storm Hilary fell in Lee and Kyle canyons.
Las Vegas residents came out to witness the first tropical storm to hit the U.S. Southwest since 1939.
Most of the expected heavy rainfall has shifted west toward San Bernardino County, Death Valley (National Park) and into Inyo County in California, said the National Weather Service.
This is a running blog on developments related to the first tropical storm to reach the Southwest United States in more than 80 years and its effects on Southern Nevada.
Time to ride out Hilary at home. Some say it’s a storm you see once every 100 years. We’ll soon find out.
Harry Reid International Airport had canceled more than 130 incoming flights for Sunday.
Damaged radar has been at least temporarily fixed for Las Vegas meteorologists as Hilary moves closer.
The National Weather Service radar operates from a site near Nelson Peak, about 15 miles south of Boulder City.
Most of the valley saw some rain Friday as a strong Pacific storm approached from the south.
Forecasters warn the storm could cause extreme flooding and mudslides. No tropical storm has made landfall in Southern California since 1939.
Hilary could drop significant rainfall in Southern Nevada, Southern California and surrounding desert areas.
After some heavy showers in Henderson around 3 p.m., lighter rain was moving from southeast to northwest across the Las Vegas Valley.
A recent Wall Street Journal poll of leading economists put the probability of the United States going into recession over the next 12 months at 63 percent. Conventional wisdom is that the Federal Reserve Bank will continue raising interest rates to combat stubborn high inflation, thereby slowing the economy and causing gross domestic product to […]
A Rainbow Canyon gauge received .31 of an inch on Monday afternoon. No other measurable rain was recorded at Regional Flood Control District gauges.
A Saturday high of 73 is forecast by the National Weather Service, but with the race at 10 p.m., temperatures are expected to be in the low 60s. There is a slight chance of rain.
Sin City is reeling from a record summer, with extreme heat killing more of its residents than ever before.
Cold to chill the Las Vegas Valley through the weekend with mountain snow a possibility, says the National Weather Service.
