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100-degree history in the Las Vegas Valley — PHOTOS

Updated May 6, 2020 - 5:51 pm

So, you like the heat, eh?

Don’t mind baking (and I don’t mean in the kitchen) in triple-digit weather?

Ready to social distance in your swimming pool lounger?

Well, you’re in luck because the mercury finally hit 100 degrees on Wednesday.

The National Weather Service forecast the temperature to hit 100 a week ago on April 29, which would have been the earliest day on record to reach triple digits.

But cloud cover kept a 73-year-old record intact.

You have to go back to May 1, 1947, for the earliest date 100 degrees was reported in Las Vegas. The first 100-degree day usually doesn’t occur until May 26.

Here are the first days Las Vegas reached 100 degrees over the past 10 years.

June 5, 2019

May 8, 2018

May 5, 2017

June 1, 2016

May 30, 2015

May 16, 2014

May 13, 2013

May 16, 2012

June 14, 2011

June 3, 2010

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