It's been a very unusual and wild weather day in the Las Vegas Valley today. The combination of plentiful monsoon moisture and an upper-level disturbance moving through south-central California has brought a deluge of rain, causing flash flooding.
Here are a few of the interesting statistics.
The normal high temperature is 101 today with a normal low of 79. The highest temperature today was 83, but that was before dawn. For much of the daylight hours, temperatures have been in the low 70s, 6 to 8 degrees below the normal low.
As of 2 p.m. PT, McCarran Airport has had 1.60 inches of rain, Henderson has had 2.14 inches, and Boulder City came in with 1.26 inches. It was still raining as I write this. To put this into perspective for you, the normal YEARLY rainfall is 4.20 inches. Before today, McCarran had 0.63 of an inch this month; so in the month of August, there has been more than half of the normal yearly rainfall.
Drier air will move into the Las Vegas Valley tomorrow as the richest monsoon moisture gets pushed to the east.
The first day of the Eastern Pacific Tropical Season gives us the first tropical storm of the season.
this could be shaping up to be not only an early fire season but a bad one too
Coachella Music Festival temperatures are likely to be in the middle to upper 90s this weekend.
It always seems that hot weather arrives just in time for the festival and looking at the history that is mostly true.
If headed into or through any mountain areas, know ahead of time that snow levels are likely to drop to 2,000 feet in the Washington Cascades
It seems highly likely that there will be a period of very windy weather from Sunday afternoon through Monday
Ken Clark
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