The Las Vegas Valley on Sunday is likely to break the record for the longest period of no rainfall.
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Strong gusts blew through the Las Vegas Valley on Wednesday evening, causing flight delays at McCarran International Airport and forcing at least two holiday attractions to close early.
Summer didn’t really end on Monday, but residents of the Las Vegas Valley embraced the traditional last hurrah of the season.
Hurricane Harvey flooded areas of Houston with more than 4 feet of rainfall in five days, but it took only a fraction of that to submerge Las Vegas neighborhoods in August 2003.
Viewing conditions for Monday’s eclipse are expected to be poor because of a high percentage of cloud coverage, according to the National Weather Service.
While the summer heat makes air conditioning indispensable for many, a survey of local county and city building codes showed that almost none guarantee a home will have air conditioning.
The number of heat related deaths in Clark County this year has reached 12, the coroner’s office reported Tuesday. That figure is seven higher than the toll reported last week.
Firefighters yelled “reach for the rope! Reach for the rope!” at a fellow rescuer swimming down the lazy river at Wet’n’Wild Las Vegas Wednesday morning, demonstrating how rescue workers retrieve residents swept up in a flash flood’s current.
At 2:47 p.m., the taco truck on Las Vegas Boulevard and Bonanza Road hit 115 degrees. With the ovens on and the meat cooking on the rotisserie, it’d be 130. The metal refrigerators were hot to the touch.
The day’s high-temperature mark had been reached three times previously since 1942, according to the National Weather Service.