Syzdekistan

Zero. Now that we breathlessly got yesterday’s (not so) deadly winter storm death toll out of the way, let’s talk a little more about the storm. First of all, it was kinda a bust here in Syzdekistan. They had some impressive snowfall amounts to the south especially in Henderson. Up to 8 inches paralyzed parts [...]

This is something you don’t see too often with the Las Vegas weather forecast: Winter Storm Warning in effect until 6 am PST Thursday… Tonight Snow with accumulations of 2 to 8 inches. Lows in the lower 30s. Light wind becoming southwest around 10 mph after midnight. And this issued at 5:59 PM: Winter Storm [...]

Growing up in Las Vegas, I was obsessed with snow. I’ll never forget my Dad waking me up about 4 in the morning to look out the back window at a snowy yard. I remember our miniature schnauzer bounding through chest deep snow in 1974 and an epic 8 inch snowfall in 1979 that closed [...]

From the National Weather Service: Las Vegas finally drops below 40 degrees… Just before 6 am PST this morning the temperature at McCarran International Airport… the official climate station for Las Vegas… dropped below 40 degrees. At 642 PST the temperature reached 38 degrees… the low temperature for today. This is not only the first [...]

From the National Weather Service: Las Vegas sets the second warmest November on record… The average temperature for November 2008 was 60.8 degrees which fell just shy of the all-time November record of 60.9 degrees set in 2007. The average low temperature for the month was 50.7 degrees which was the warmest on record beating [...]

The rain has moved off to the east leaving some very most air and patchy fog on this Thanksgiving night. Today we enjoyed some more rain (0.46 inches) which brings our two-day storm total to 0.97 inches. We even had some lightning and thunder this afternoon and my sister had “garbanzo bean” sized hail at [...]

Yesterday was a pretty wet day in Las Vegas. Here in Syzdekistan, we got 0.49 inches on November 26 bringing our total for the year up to 1.80 inches. Most of the rain fell in the early morning and caused some minor street flooding. Several national Weather Service Stations nearby recorded record amounts of rain: [...]

From the National Weather Service: Record high minimum temperatures broken and tied in the Las Vegas forecast and warning area Tuesday… The low temperature at McCarran International Airport here in Las Vegas Thursday the 25th of November only dropped to 54 degrees. This reading broke the previous record high minimum temperature for the date which [...]

From the National Weather Service (emphasis added): … Early season snow for parts of the Mojave Desert and southern Great Basin… An upper level low accompanied by plenty of cold air and just enough moisture brought snow showers to parts of the area Friday night through Sunday morning. As a result many areas saw their [...]