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Monday, Aug. 2, 2010 | 9:37 p.m.
July in Las Vegas entered the record books as the warmest month in recorded weather history.
The mercury reached the triple digits each day in a month for the ninth time since records were kept beginning in 1937. But in addition to above-average high temperatures, forecasters said higher low temperatures were a main factor in the record-breaking heat.
The average temperature last month at McCarran International Airport was 96.2 degrees, which is 5 degrees warmer than average. The previous record for the warmest month ever was in July 2007 with an average temperature of 95.4 degrees, according to National Weather Service records.
The average low temperature in July was 85.7 degrees, which set a record for the warmest average low during any month in the city's recorded history. The month also set a record for having six days with lows of at least 90 degrees.
The low of 93 degrees on July 19 tied for the third-highest low temperature ever in Las Vegas.
Forecasters said the average high temperature during the month was 106.6 degrees, which ties for the 13th warmest in Las Vegas. The last time the city recorded at least 100 degrees each day in a month was July 1988.
July's warmest days were the 15th and 18th, both of which saw the mercury reach a sweltering 113 degrees, the weather service said.
The coolest high and low temperatures in the month were on July 4, which saw readings of 100 degrees and 77 degrees.
"While the intensity of the heat during the middle portion of July 2005 was worse, that month managed to see a break in the heat toward the later part of the month as monsoonal moisture moved in," the weather service said in a statement. "This July, monsoonal moisture did move in during the close of the month but brought in a decent amount of cloud cover that kept up temperatures at night."
July was also dry: McCarran recorded only a trace of rainfall during the month, forecasters said. Measurable rainfall in parts of Henderson on July 30 didn't make its way to the valley's official reporting station at McCarran.
The last time Las Vegas saw a high temperature fall short of 100 degrees was June 22, which topped out at 98 degrees. The triple-digit heat will continue, with highs between 104 and 106 degrees in the forecast each day through the weekend, the weather service said.
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113 is easy. Why bother posting here, hater? Get a life.
Global warming
The first six months of 2010 were below normal. Global cooling.
My electric bill easily confirms this.
Hmmm 113 in the desert = global warming? Did the snowfall we had two Decembers ago also = global warming? Let me guess, mild weather in spring = global warming. How about the sun rise/sun set, I guess those are also caused by global warming too.
Global warming is a scientific fact. Only scientifically ignorant people, who know nothing about atmospheric physics, don't understand global warming.
It is too bad that the media propagates disinformation to confuse ignorant people.
It is even worse that these ignorant people regurgitate this propaganda, rather than educating themselves.
Bob635 - the higher residual temps at night wouldn't have anything to do with all the concrete absorbing the daytime heat and holding that heat through the night??? Records from 1937 - what about the billion years before records were kept? As I'm one of the, as you put it, "Ignorant People", why don't you explain how 73 years of weather history is stastitically significant over a billion years. I can hardly wait to see this explanation!!!
We're sure to get to the bottom of the truth of global warming in the comments section of the Las Vegas Sun, and boy is that a relief.
Also: It didn't seem that hot, for some reason. Meh.
Brownln4, I am sure that Bob will just "hide the decline" behind a "hockey stick" and continue to call you an "ignorant person". After all to Bob global warming is a religion and Algorical is the profit.
Global warming must be true. Why else would Al Gore invent the internet to warn us ignorant folks?
Or have to use 20 times as much electricity as the average American consumer in his mcMansion to stay comfortable?
Or head out on the water on his big houseboat to stay cool.
Or fly around in giant airplanes to warn us to minimize our carbon footprint.
Poor Al. At least he's having a good laugh on us!
This is the desert...I don't think that counts as "Global Warming".
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Global Meltdown
Global warming for sure. Hotter and hotter...
I wouldn't say that this July is hotter than any other July in Vegas, just more humid. The monsoon moisture came in earlier than usual.
This year, San Diego had its coolest July since 1933.
Bob635 has it right but is just trying to make a sarcastic point... me thinks. Brownln4 there aren't enough actual facts in the few years we've recorded/researched that verify either warming or cooling due to mankind's influence. The media is so good at keeping people worried because 80% of the population is gullible enough to pay their $5000 a month cable bill to be fed this crap on the internet and TV. I'm one of those stupid enough to pay Cox but I think what is happening is just part of the normal Sun/Earth cycle. Read up on the Solar Cycle and see if it doesn't start making sense.
Go to Wikipedia and search Solar Cycle. Couldn't paste link due to the activities of Righthaven and the RJ... S on them.
Thanks Harry!!!!
These tempatures are what McCarron records and not the actual temps valley wide... In some parts of the valley I am sure it is 5-10 degrees higher...,.
Maybe its2hot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryRgOU76V...
Global warming is a theory not a fact.
One episode of hot weather does not indicate global warming. We in Europe had the coldest winter for over 50 years but no one is suggesting global cooling
Its Bush's fault isn't it?
When any system (electrical, thermodynamic, quantum, biological, etc.) is pushed away from equilibrium (due to increase in energy input), you tend to have increased frequency and amplitude (severity) of oscillations. The cold and hot oscillations that we are witnessing around the world are, in my opinion, stunning evidence of the effect of increased energy in our atmosphere and oceans. There is global warming - the debate is really about the origins of this warming (human-induced or otherwise). Nevertheless, I think this extreme weather is only going to get worse.
There's as much scientific evidence against global warming as there is supporting it...it's just that the latter has been generally more visible through the media since the deep arguments began. It's foolish to think that there hasn't been an increase in the amount of man-made greenhouse gasses during the past century. However, the researchers in England..those Climategate guys that were outted through their own inter-office emails a short while back...have been accused of falsifying data. Since that news broke about the English scientists whose purported research results gave him a huge money bus to ride on , where has Al Gore been ( besides getting a massage)? And, where has the Obama Administration public statements about global warming disappeared to since that news broke as well? Let's face some realities about this topic...in a very significant way it has been motivated by the attraction for money and fund raising by it's proponents. So, why wouldn't the English researchers send out bad data? There are some " atmospheric physicists" and other scientifically educated people and groups who don't buy into the global warming theory. There's also some folks who just get by on common sense who don't get it either. There's "ignorance" and "Inconvenient Truths" on both sides of this thing, like most any topic inferring Armageddon normally would.
Cheers...