Rain makes appearance at McCarran after hiatus
After more than four months with no measurable precipitation, the valley's official weather station at McCarran International Airport finally recorded a little rain on Tuesday.
That dry spell ties for the sixth-longest on record (take that, 1989). The all-time streak is 150 days without measurable rain, a mark set in 1959.
Here's a glance at what has happened in the past 137 days:
SINCE THE LAST DROPS
■ The daily high temperature hit triple digits 75 times.
■ Gov. Jim Gibbons made Nevada history -- twice! -- by losing in the primary election and getting divorced.
■ "Toy Story 3" made $1 billion at the box office.
■ Seven people were shot dead by police in the Las Vegas Valley.
■ The Pittsburgh Pirates fell 33 games back in the National League Central after trailing the then-division-leading St. Louis Cardinals by just a game and a half on April 22.
■ The Clark County School District did away with year-round schools.
■ The word "rain" has appeared in 58 different stories in the Review-Journal.
■ Oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico for 85 days straight.
■ Despite the efforts of Las Vegas soccer phenom Herculez Gomez, the U.S. failed to win the World Cup.
■ Something about a mosque in Manhattan.
■ Adam "Pacman" "Making it Rain" Jones signed a two-year contract with the Cincinnati Bengals.
