How hot is it in Las Vegas?

[raccoon]

I remember last summer, in the middle of a heat wave, somebody posted that temperatures in Las Vegas were underreported because it was feared that telling the REAL temps would scare tourists away.

Is that happening now?

[enlightenment]

1. Not that I'm aware . . .

Hottest ambient air temp last year was 117. Hottest this year (so far) I believe was 113, a few days ago.

Foul, but for some reason we choose to live here, so I guess we can't complain. sigh.

[Awsi Dooger]

2. I've heard that before

A gas station attendant in Baker, CA told me the same thing, that temps were underreported here. If so, it's many of them because the local channels show readings all across the valley. The official temp is taken at the airport but other places are often several degrees hotter.

It's damn hot, to answer your question. I've been here since the late '80s and this is one of the few summers I've been stuck here due to my job. Dry heat my flat ass. I find it unbearable.

[TankLV]

3. It's all relative. Pretty damn hot if you're from Northern Canada.

Nice if you're from the Sahara Dessert or some other hellhole.

But it's a DRY heat - like sticking your head into the oven to check the turkey on Thanksgiving Day...

But without the humidity, it really IS a lot more bearable - you don't sweat - it just evaporates instantly...

Of course, lots of homes and businesses have those "misters" that spray out a fine mist to "cool things down" - so now you're back to hot and HUMID...

To answer your qustion - 104-112 average for the highs, low in the 90's at nite...

Never have to worry about the pizza or other "take out" food getting cold by the time you bring it home!...

[Awsi Dooger]

4. I must be doing something wrong

Because I do sweat. Plenty.

I'm originally from Miami and 90 with humidity is infinitely preferable to this hell. There I'd play golf all summer, just drink tons of water. Here I don't even want to venture outside if I don't have to.

I agree, it's exactly like an oven. And you never get the gorgeous varying skies with dependable thunderstorms. Just miserable heat, hour after hour. This summer is convincing me to return.

[TankLV]

5. Sorry to hear that - I LOVE it here - don't plan on moving unless the

local economy tanks and business begins to dry up.

Only have to suffer this for a couple months or so - then it's back to gorgeous weather.

To each his own.

I used to live in Honolulu, with 90 and humidity - which was rare temp-wise and because of the trades, and I'd rather live here.

But that's just comparing the high temps with combined high humidity, all other things being equal.

In Hawaii, there is sooo much more to love - and I could not have ever imagined living anyplace other than "Paradise" which Hawaii is, while Florida is a permanent hell hole.

If Hawaii had business opportunities, and did not become the land of the rich and their servents, I'd have never left.

Thank god for my Hawaiian friends who moved here first and convinced me to follow.

[top_mosker]

6. high desert

Lived there for 15 years. Reno weather is much nicer... Gets down in the 60s at night :)

[newyawker99]

9. Hi top_mosker!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Nevernose]

7. Yes.

The tmperature is taken at the airport and is the "official" one for the LV Valley, according to the National Weather Service. However, I have noticed a distinct trend in discrepancies between NWS reports, local news reports, and the thermometer in my back yard. They underreport the crime on the Strip, too, for the same reasons. You have no idea how often big Strip casinos are held up at gun point in broad daylight robberies -- in any other city, it would be national news, but here? What robberies?

Honestly? I'm good with it. That's just the way Las Vegas works. If you want normal, move to Iowa.

BTW, they also take temperature readings, in the little weather boxes, in the shade. Something about variances caused by the sun -- I don't know, to be fair. But I know that my thermometer, in the shade, a mile from the "official" one is always at least five degrees hotter, and I can only imagine what the temp in full sun is like.

It's so hot here sometimes I want to scream, but it's only that bad for a couple of months, tops. It sure as hell beats the swamp in Texas I left, too -- that's for damned sure.

[purplecrayon]

8. what football game shootings?

for the second week in a row there has been a shooting at a high school football game. I just searched the newspaper online looking for an article- it wasn't mentioned. Last week no one was hit- a gun was fired 6 times into the air. I don't know what happened last night. I was wondering if crime gets downplayed here- apparently it does. I'm also accepting of how things are run here- LV is a unique place and, so far, there's more I like than dislike about it. But I don't have kids in school- that would be a whole different thing.

And since this thread is about weather- the weather is just beautiful today, if a tad windy. I moved to LV about a month ago and find the weather better than I'd expected. But I've also lived in Phoenix so the high temps were not a shock.

[newyawker99]

10. Hi purplecrayon!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[reginag]

11. I do know what is happening

Im always aware of our climate. Especially today that there are always a sudden change. As we all know Vegas has warm weather, but today Vegas even other state are having an abnormal weather.
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[Systematic Chaos]

12. And I know you're a dipshit spammer, and have been alerted.

Isn't that kewl?

:eyes:

PS - learn some goddamn English while you're at it.

[TankLV]

13. High in the mid 30's to mid 40's at best today...

some highs as low as mid 20's...

all areas well below freezing at night for the past week or more...

[wegottadosomething]

14. The temps reported are the "Official Temperature's"

Which are reportedly at McCarran airport, and rumored to be in the shade! Lol! Yes,after living there for two long years, we all knew that the reported temperature's were not accurate, and that yes, if they were reported truly, it may negatively affect tourism, and in Vegas, nothing must ever compromise tourism! Uggh!

[shimmergal]

15. No.

Let's see; I think yesterday it got up to about 60 degree F. Haven't been outside yet today. Actually it's been a cold winter for Vegas,l plus two weeks with 3-4 days in a row of rain. Very unusual weather.

[kizks9950]

16. Hell no

[Greyhound]

17. 106 @ 6. n/t

[medeak]

18. 118 at mom's house

got 67 miles out of town to visit and had to turn around as husband couldn't take it

[carterbob1]

19. Lake Havasu City

I grew up in Southern Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas, where the mid summer temperatures routinely reach the upper 90s and low 100s with high humidity so that the heat index is often in the 115 to 120 degree range. Several years ago, however, I spent a few days in August out in the lower Colorado River Valley in and around Lake Havasu City, Arizona. The afternoon temperatures in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, during that time period ranged from 118 to 122 degrees in terms of the actual thermometer temperature. In spite of the so-called "dry heat" in Arizona's low humidity (only about 8 or 9 percent) it was still noticeably much hotter than anything I had ever experienced in all those years in the Southern Midwest and Midsouth.