The scorching temperatures that set numerous records in Las Vegas this summer are lingering after Labor Day.
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“We blew (the summer) record out of the water,” National Weather Service meteorologist Morgan Stessman said.
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The record of consecutive days reaching 100 or higher, set in 1944, is 66, said National Weather Service meteorologist Clay Morgan.
Rain showers or thunderstorms are a 20 percent possibility Thursday in the Las Vegas Valley, says the National Weather Service.
June and July set records by several degrees for the highest average daily temperature. August is on track to do the same.
Storms could find parts of the valley this weekend while fall-like temperatures will be felt at Mount Charleston.
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The Red Rock area received more that six-tenths of an inch in less than an hour early Sunday afternoon. The sky started clearing by 2:30 p.m.
“It should just stay up just in the mountains,” meteorologist Ashley Nickerson said. “There is plenty of moisture out there but not a lot of energy.”
Monsoon conditions and slightly cooler temperatures are forecast for the valley through the weekend, the National Weather Service said.
The advisory from the Clark County Division of Air Quality is in response to storms that blew dust into the Las Vegas Valley.
An excessive heat watch runs from Sunday morning through Tuesday evening.
July in Death Valley National Park was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth, with an average temperature of 108.5 degrees.
A town of 5,200 just inside the California border along Route 66 now boasts a scorching new record — the hottest monthly average temperature in the country.
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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.
