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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.
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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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From the AP:
RENO — The months of March and April were among the driest in the past 100 years across much of Northern Nevada, the National Weather Service said Friday.
It reported that 0.07 inches of precipitation were recorded at the Reno-Tahoe International Airport in March and only a trace in April. Typically, 1.21 inches falls […]

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It was dry over the entire region in April. From the National Weather Service:
April 2008 ties for the driest on record at several locations… Rain gauges across much of the southern Great Basin and Mojave Desert have soaked up more sunshine than precipitation this past month. A dry pattern has prevailed throughout April allowing […]

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The Las Vegas Sun reports that April was dry. Very dry. April is a normally a dry month but this year was exceptional:
Las Vegas didn’t see a drop of rain in April for only the fourth time since its been keeping track of its weather history, the National Weather Service reports.
Since official weather records began […]

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The water year runs from July to June and so far, 2007-2008 is looking very dry. We haven’t seen rain since March 16 (0.07 inches) and April is a dry month. Some of the models show rain next week but the Weather Service forecasters and myself will believe it when we see it.
From the NWS:
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Do snow flurries count when you are sleeping? I like to say that just about every winter I see snow flurries here in the Las Vegas Valley. This year has been an exception. Not only am I working inside a lot more, this winter was a bit more mild than other winters. Most of the […]

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