Las Vegas marks 20th consecutive rainy day, 106 days without dropping below 70F
Source: Las Vegas Sun
... Chris Stachelski, a National Weather Service meteorologist, said today marked the 20th consecutive day in which at least a trace of rain had been recorded somewhere in the Las Vegas Valley or its immediate surrounding area.
That nearly three-week stretch of rainy days far exceeds the previous record of 12 straight days of rain, in both 1967 and 1998.
... In another weather note, the Las Vegas NWS reported a temperature reading of 69 degrees around 5 a.m. today at McCarran. It marked the first time in a record 106 days – since May 28 – that the mercury had dropped below 70 degrees. The previous record for consecutive days at or above 70 degrees was 99 days, June 10 through Sept. 16, 2007.
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