Dangerous, prolonged heat has settled over the western part of the country. NV Energy is asking for help conserving power. California is warning of possible blackouts.
Marvin Clemons
Marvin joined Reviewjournal.com in March 2019 after a 7.5-year stint on the assignment desk at KSNV News 3. He started his newspaper career (via school of hard knocks) several decades ago in Utah after service in the U.S. Air Force, and eventually spent 25 years in the Chicago newspaper market before the industry downsizing in 2011 made him and wife Julie move West. They have six children and 12 grandchildren still enjoying Midwest winters/summers.
Monsoon season may continue in the Las Vegas Valley, according to the National Weather Service.
The usual holiday traffic issue is related to California-bound travelers leaving Las Vegas at the end of the weekend. This July 4 weekend it is a bit reversed.
“What has been a slow motion train wreck for 20 years is accelerating, and the moment of reckoning is near,” the head of the Southern Nevada Water Authority told Congress.
Warm and windy conditions will prevail through much of the holiday weekend in Las Vegas, says the National Weather Service.
The Zion-Mt. Carmel Highway was closed Wednesday afternoon because of a rockfall west of the Zion-Mount Carmel Tunnel.
A red flag warning runs from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday for all of Clark and Nye counties along with portions of Lincoln County as well as northwest Arizona.
About 1,300 NV Energy customers have had their power restored after a Friday afternoon outage in Henderson.
Sunny and warm conditions will prevail in Las Vegas this weekend with some winds gusts and slight precipitation chance Sunday evening, says the National Weather Service.
New Year’s Day will be clear and brisk with a high near 48 and northerly winds of 10 to 14 mph, according to the National Weather Service.
The past month was the warmest November ever recorded in Las Vegas, according to the National Weather Service.
Temperatures will remain a few degrees above normal for the Las Vegas region, says the National Weather Service.
Normal temperatures are forecast to return for the weekend in the Las Vegas Valley, according to the National Weather Service.
A flash flood warning for west central Clark County issued on Sunday was quickly canceled by the National Weather Service.
Conditions for monsoonal rains are likely to be absent from the Las Vegas Valley until the weekend, according to the National Weather Service.