Monday, Aug. 24, 2009 | 6:30 a.m.
Sun weather coverage
The Las Vegas Valley will have relatively cooler weather and another chance for isolated showers and thunderstorms today, according to the National Weather Service.
An area of low pressure is moving across the southern Great Basin, creating conditions for more storms, the weather service said.
Most of the activity will be in northern Mohave County in Arizona and Lincoln County in Nevada, forecasters said.
The storms will be capable of producing wind gusts up to 45 mph, small hail, dangerous lightning and brief heavy rain, the weather service said.
The forecast for the Las Vegas Valley calls for a 20 percent chance of precipitation today and tonight.
Today's high temperature will climb to 96 degrees this afternoon, a few degrees lower than the normal of 100 degrees for this date. The record high temperature for this date is 110 degrees, set in 1985.
Drier air will continue to spread east into the region Tuesday through the week, limiting storms to far eastern Lincoln and Mohave counties on Tuesday, the weather service said.
Sunday's high temperature was 90 degrees at 10:05 a.m., or about 11 degrees below the normal high.
Sunday's rainfall scattered
While Sunday's showers were scattered throughout the valley, the official amount of rain recorded Sunday for Las Vegas was a trace at McCarran International Airport.
The weather service also said several automated gages in the far southern Las Vegas Valley near Anthem and in the far southwest valley reported between .04 and .08 of an inch of rain.
Rainfall amounts recorded in southern Nevada were as follows:
Six miles southwest of Searchlight, .71 of an inch; Searchlight, .63; Alamo, .33; Primm, .2; Goodsprings, .16; Kyle Canyon, .13; Goldfield, .1; Dyer, .09; Jean Airport, .08, and Pioche, .07.
Rainfall amounts recorded in northwest Arizona were:
Lake Mead City, .75 of an inch; Meadview, .59, Kingman (Mohave Wash and Airway Avenue), .59; Big Sandy Wash at Interstate 40, .43; Kingman (Devlin Channel), .39; Valle Vista, .2; Golden Shores, .2; Kingman Airport, .14, and Lake Havasu City, .12.
Rainfall amounts recorded in southeast California were:
Mohave River Sink, .81 of an inch; Mojave National Preserve (Mid Hills), .79; Essex, .41, Needles (Park Moabi), .27; Needles Airport, .15; Mountain Pass, .13; Bishop Airport, .06.
The rainfall amounts were collected by the weather service, Clark County Flood Control District, Mohave County Flood Control District and San Bernardino County Flood Control sensors.
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