LV temperature hits triple digits

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Wednesday, May 5, 2004 | 10:26 a.m.

The official start of summer may be six weeks away, but the first 100-degree temperature of the year came Monday, giving Las Vegas Valley residents a taste of what's to come.

"People should get ready," said John Adair, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service. "The really hot weather is around the corner."

Monday's temperature didn't crack the record set for May 4 in 1947 -- 108 degrees. In fact May 1947 was unusually warm, with the record highs for the first six days of the month all falling in that year, Adair said.

There will be a gradual cool-down this week of a few degrees each day as a low pressure system off the West Coast works its way to Southern Nevada, Adair said. By the weekend temperatures should reach the more seasonally normal range of the mid- to upper 80s.