Five records and a huge tie
One temperature record tied... five broken in Las
Vegas today...
... All time record
high temperature for Las Vegas tied today...
At 323 PM this afternoon... the Mercury
reached 117 degrees at
McCarran International
Airport. This reading tied the all time
record
high last set on July 24th in 1942. Official Las Vegas
records have been kept since
1937.
... Daily record high temperature
broken today...
The high temperature of
117 degrees broke the record for the date...
which was 115 degrees set in 1989.
... All time daily average temperature
broken today...
The high temperature
today of 117 degrees combined with the morning
low of 95 degrees resulted in a daily average
of 106 degrees. This
average of 106 degrees
broke the all time daily average temperature
of 105 degrees... set just two days ago...
July 17th.
... All time record high
minimum temperature broken today...
The
morning low at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas was
95 degrees. This broke the previous all time
record high minimum
temperature of 93
degrees... also set just two days ago... July
17th.
...
Record broken for consecutive days with high temperatures of 115
degrees or greater...
Today is the fourth day in a row the
high temperature has been 115
degrees or
greater. The previous record was 3 days in a row and
occurred 3 times... in July of 1942... June of
1950 and June of 1994.
... Record for
number of high temperatures of 115 degrees or greater
in one month broken...
Todays high of 117 degrees at McCarran
International Airport was the
fifth time this
month that the temperature has been 115 degrees or
higher. This breaks the previous record of 4
days set just
yesterday... the
18th.
Note... the records of all
time daily average temperature and all
time
record high minimum are dependent upon the temperature at 1 am
PDT... midnight local Standard time. If the
temperature gets below 95
degrees..these two
records will be affected.
Posted: Tue - July 19, 2005 at 08:28 PM