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I tend to get excited when we have tornados in Nevada. Heck, I get excited when we get clouds. Anyway, there were three supercell thunderstorms near Fallon, Nevada yesterday. Supercells are the biggest and nastiest thunderstorms. They have an very strong rotating updraft that feeds the storm and keeps it stable. Supercells commonly have intense […]

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From the National Weather Service:
June 2008 ties for the sixth warmest June on record at Las Vegas…
The average monthly temperature at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas for the month of June 2008 was 88.7 degrees. This tied with June 2000 for the sixth warmest June on record in Las Vegas. Official weather records for […]

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From the National Weather Service:
RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
140 AM PDT WED JUN 18 2008
…NEW TEMPERATURE RECORDS SET IN THE MOJAVE DESERT YESTERDAY…
THE LOW TEMPERATURE AT MCCARRAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT YESTERDAY JUNE 17TH DROPPED TO 87 DEGREES AT 557 AM PDT. THIS READING BROKE THE PREVIOUS RECORD HIGH […]

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From the NWS:
Precipitation totals from Saturday…
Another round of scattered showers developed across parts of the southern Great Basin and Mojave Desert Saturday. This activity was associated with several smaller disturbances that rotated around an upper level low that was located along the coast of northern California. Once again precipitation was hit and miss in […]

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From the National Weather Service:
Record low maximum temperature broken in Las Vegas today…
The high temperature at McCarran International Airport today only got up to 67 degrees and occurred at 1201 PM PDT. This reading broke the previous record low maximum… which could also be called the coolest high temperature… for the date which was 69 […]

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This is a rather unusual record (From the NWS Website):
MONTHLY RECORD LOW PRESSURE AT LAS VEGAS…
THE LOWEST BAROMETRIC PRESSURE EVER RECORDED IN THE MONTH OF MAY AT LAS VEGAS MCCARREN AIRPORT OCCURRED TODAY. THE PRESSURE AT 440 PM PDT WAS 29.27 INCHES WHICH BROKE THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 29.28 SET IN 1975.
THIS […]

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First of all, I am not sure why a fire official is calling todays tornado in Weld County, Colordao a “freak” storm because Weld County has one of the highest frequencies of tornados across the country. Of course it is larger than most counties in the Great Plains. And this was the first tornado fatality […]

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Today’s highest temperature of 82 occurred at 12:56 AM this morning. That was also a record high low temperature yesterday recorded at 11:56 PM. Yesterday’s high was 101 and that concluded a string of warm days: 108 on May 19 and 104 on May 18. Of course, for the temperature to drop, it was very […]

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From the National Weather Service:
Record high temperatures across the area this afternoon…
A strong ridge of high pressure over the area today resulted
in many official record temperatures being broken.
High temperature records for May 19th

Daggett California…
108 old record 103 set in 2006

Needles California…
114 old record 110 set in 2006

Las Vegas
Nevada… ..108 old […]

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From the National Weather Service:
Record high temperatures across the area this afternoon…
A strong ridge of high pressure over the area today resulted in many official record temperatures being broken.
High temperature records for may 18th
Daggett California… 107 old record 102 set in 1954
Needles California… 111 old record 110 set in 2006
Las Vegas Nevada… 104 old […]

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