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Winds will pick up through weekend in Las Vegas Valley

By / Las Vegas Review-Journal
February 28, 2018 - 8:00 am
 
Winds will be breezy on Wednesday and pick up to 20-25 mph on Thursday. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal)@bizutesfaye

The Las Vegas Valley will stay warm and windy through the rest of the week and into NASCAR weekend, according to the National Weather Service.

Wednesday’s forecast has a high of 60 degrees and will stay mostly sunny with breezy winds.

Winds will pick up to about 20-25 mph on Thursday and could gust up to 35 mph, the weather service said. Thursday’s high should be 64 degrees.

NASCAR weekend will kick off with a high near 65 on Saturday and winds that could be a little stronger than Thursday’s, the weather service said. The winds will die down overnight and it should stay breezy through Sunday.

A few isolated showers might pop up across the valley on Saturday as the high drops down to 59, but Sunday should stay dry with another 59-degree high, the weather service said.

Contact Max Michor at 702-383-0365 or mmichor@reviewjournal.com. Follow @MaxMichor on Twitter.

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