Weather goes from warm and sunny to rainy and windy this weekend
Las Vegans should plan for an array of weather from warm and sunny to rainy and windy this weekend.
Friday’s high temperature was 63 degrees — about 10 degrees higher than normal, the National Weather Service said.
Saturday’s expected high is 70 degrees, which would be just 2 degrees shy of the record high for that day. The current record high for Jan. 30 was in 1971 at 72 degrees, meteorologist Caleb Steele said. The normal temperature for Jan. 30 is 60 degrees.
Winds will blow out of the west and southwest with high gusts expected Saturday, Steele said.
Things take a turn on Sunday with a high near 58 degrees and a 70 percent chance for rain. Winds will be lighter, about 15 mph, and the expected low is 40 degrees, the weather service said.
That same system is expected to bring anywhere from 5 to 10 inches of snow to Mount Charleston, weather service meteorologist John Salmen said.
“We have a ‘Winter Storm Watch’ up there,” he said. That watch is from Sunday afternoon to Monday morning.
Monday’s high is expected to be in the upper 40s with showers lingering in the morning and winds of 20 mph to 25 mph.
“Monday looks like a pretty dreary day,” Steele said.
Showers should be gone, and the sun should shine just in time for Groundhog Day. That could mean that Punxsutawney Phil will see his shadow and predict six more weeks of winter.
Steele said the groundhog’s predictions “are only accurate about 50 percent of the time.”
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