Cold weekend ahead for Las Vegas
It will continue to be chilly for the next couple of days, but Las Vegas area residents can expect clearer skies and gradually warming temperatures through New Year’s Day.
“We’re not expecting any precipitation,” Andrew Gorelow of the National Weather Service said today.
That will be a change from the unusually wet Christmas that was bestowed upon the area this year.
Mount Charleston received 14 inches of snow on Thursday, making the storm total 18 inches, Gorelow said.
Precipitation in the valley was actually pretty light. McCarran International Airport, the weather service’s official monitoring site, recorded 0.13 inches of rain, Henderson had 0.08 inches, and the North Las Vegas Airport had 0.10 inches.
Still, precipitation is above normal — 1.15 inches so far in December, well past the normal amount of just under half an inch.
This afternoon, state Routes 157 and 156 into Kyle and Lee canyons in the Spring Mountains were still listed as requiring snow chains by the Nevada Department of Transportation. Temperatures up there are expected to dip into the single digits tonight.
Through the weekend in the valley, partly cloudy skies are expected with highs in the high 40s to low 50s and low temperatures from 33 to 36 degrees.
Next week, sunny skies are expected with lows in the lower 40-degree range and highs in the upper 50s.
