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Aiden Bernardo, 4, stops to enjoy one of the fountains at the Paseo Vista Park in Henderson Sunday afternoon.
Sunday, June 6, 2010 | 6:11 p.m.
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With temperatures at record levels Sunday, Las Vegas Valley residents tried to stay cool while keeping kids occupied at parks and pools.
At 110 degrees, that’s not always an easy task.
McCarran International Airport hit 110 degrees at 3:10 p.m. Sunday, setting a record for June 6, according to the National Weather Service. The previous record was 108 degrees, set in 2002.
This is also the earliest date on record Las Vegas has reached the 110-degree mark.
Before Sunday, the earliest day of the year Las Vegas reached at least 110 degrees was June 8, 1955, weather service meteorologist Chris Stachelski said.
Forecasters issued an excessive heat warning for most of Clark County and the surrounding region through 8 p.m. Monday, but the summer warmth didn’t stop residents from enjoying the outdoors.
At the Paseo Vista Park at Paseo Verde and St. Rose parkways in Henderson, moms and dads braved the heat on the sidelines as their little ones played on the park’s splash pad. The park is one of eight in Henderson with the splash pad feature.
“It’s a really great way to get them out of the house and burn off some energy,” Henderson resident Sarah Bernardo said as she watched her 4-year-old son Aiden stomp on the fountains.
Tiffany Manley, also of Henderson, found a spot under a tree as her 3-year-old daughter Tatum made friends with other children in the fountains.
“The kids really don’t seem to mind the heat,” Manley said. “It’s the parents who really mind it.”
Manley said when the Las Vegas heat really kicks into high gear, her family heads to the coast to spend July and August at the beach.
“It’s really the best way to escape the heat,” she said.
For Omari Jackson and his two daughters Michelle, 9, and Makaylah, 10, this was their first taste of the summer heat in Southern Nevada. The family moved from Missouri to Henderson three weeks ago.
“Everyone told us that you can’t sit in the air conditioning all day. You have to go out and get used to the heat,” Jackson said. “In Missouri, it’s much more of a humid heat. This is a dry heat, but it’s still really hot.”
Jackson also found a spot in the shade while his two daughters weaved in and out of the gushing fountains. When asked if she was having a good time, a soaked Makaylah shook her head with a smile as beads of water fell off her brow.
One family made the splash pad an added feature for a pirate-themed birthday party. A performer dressed as Jack Sparrow from “Pirates of the Caribbean” helped children “walk the plank” through the fountains.
A lifeguard watches swimmers at the Paradise Park and Community Center Sunday afternoon. Las Vegas Valley residents used the park's water features to escape the triple-digit temperatures.
At the Paradise Park and Community center at Tropicana Avenue and McLeod Drive, residents took advantage of the park’s water slide, wading pool and picnic area.
Linda Mariano, a Boston resident who is in town visiting family, brought her granddaughter to Paradise Park to enjoy the water features.
“She is just starting learning how to swim, so this is great for her,” Mariano said.
“I can kick!” 2-year-old Maya Rouellette said proudly as she splashed in the shallow end of the pool.
Even adults were enjoying the water park’s amenities. Annette Diko laid at the edge of the lap pool to dry off and soak up some sun.
“I don’t have a pool at my house, so it’s nice to be able to walk across the street and use this pool,” she said.
Triple-digit heat will stick around through the middle of the week.
The high Monday is expected to reach 108 degrees; Tuesday is likely to hit 106 degrees, and Wednesday will top out at 101 degrees, the weather service said. Thursday’s high will hit about 96 degrees.
Weather service records indicate the average high temperature for June 6 in Las Vegas is 96 degrees.
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Where are the comments from those who don't believe in global warming?
This is a new high temperature for this early in the year. It beats the high record set Just 8 years ago.
Global warming is real. Nevada needs solar and wind energy to set the example and recognition of this adverse climate change.
OK here it is I was told by a very very trusted tree hugger/temperature expert that the Sun built up one big fart ..... thats all it was
Your first day hitting 100 this year was five days late but your first day hitting 110 was 2 days earlier than the record. Global Climate Proof! Wow, run for cover, watch out for bits of falling sky! BTW, how many Prius purchases were wasted by the Iceland volcano spewing so much ash & gas a WHOLE CONTINENT and more was covered for months? Just one of over a Billion volcano's in earth's history.
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Weather and climate are two different things. For those looking to understand this click on the 'start here' option at the top of this page:
http://www.realclimate.org
For those not looking for understanding just keep posting denialist trash.
mschaffer, thanks for couching your OPINION.
Since when is 110 considered requiring an "excessive heat warning"? To anyone who's been here a while, 110 is normal. Oh that explains it ... It's a warning to all the newcomers.
As for "global warming" do you think the government will soon offer tax breaks to Prius drivers to stop the volcanoes? Lol. Are you aware that we had three months of BELOW AVERAGE temperatures in a row? Do you realize that we are expected to have a high of 89 degrees next Friday ... Well BELOW normal?!
The history of Earth demonstrates climate change as NORMAL.
Hi RPJ, here's the official National Weather Service criteria for an excessive heat warning in Las Vegas.
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/vef/heatCriteria...
Tim, I wasn't doubting the tenacity of the reporting, I just find it funny that the past few years we've been inundated with "excessive heat warnings" that seem to have come out of nowhere. The key question is, when did the NWS either define or lower the threshold for Excessive Heat Warnings, because I don't remember them at all prior to the past few years.
uddeboda,
If I was the sun I wouldn't go to Sweden either!
vegas in summer is one place i dont visit. i told the bro-in-law we will visit between november and april only. i know hes coming to my house in the summer.(chicago)
Not even worth talking about, we will be under normal this weekend. Global warming is a farce, we all know it. I can make up a trick and have the numbers show an ice age is starting tomorrow at 6 pm. Funny how Al Gore has been in hiding for a while, which is not due to him and Tipper and there marital cooling... He knows the jig is up, time to take his near billion worth and head out of town.
global warming is a possible misnomer. while the whole planet may or maynot be warming, the polar ice caps are melting. Thats bad news for islands and coastal towns worldwide. Just google NASA photos of the ice caps from 1999-2010.OUCH. Thats a short time in terms of Ma nature to do this alone. Anyway, i love the heat in Las v.
Actually, NASA reports that polar ice has increased this year.
While RPJ's statement is true in the most narrow sense a link to the actual NASA reports shows there is much more to this story than RPJ apparently understands:
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
As to proving or disproving GLOBAL warming based on what is happening over the course of any given day/week/month or even year in one very small fraction of the globe, I would hope that reasonable readers understand the utter vapidity of such statements.
I'm starting to think mschaffer is Al Gore????? :-)
dipstick...I much prefer our dry weather to the humidity of the east coast. As long as you stay hydrated u are fine out here. Chicago and Ohio where I'm from = sweating and being just plain miserable!
110 degrees? Sounds like a good day to sit around the pool and drink a $400 bottle of 'Goose. Umm,not.
its2hot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryRgOU76V...
Please let us have some!!! Here in Chicago it's only 62 degrees!!!
That comment about humidity is exactly on point. I come to Vegas every year in August and have no problem handling the heat. I remember one time here in Chicago when the temp got above 100 and people were dropping dead. Everybody here goes into panic mode when it gets 90 degrees here. The humidity here is absolutely smothering. Give me the dry Vegas heat over humidity ANY DAY. Breathing in our humidity and heat is next to impossible. When I am in Vegas and the heat is on, I just sit under a umbrella at the Flamingo outdoor lounge and relax, no problem.
<i know hes coming to my house in the summer.(chicago)>
dipstick:
He's just going to LOVE the humidity!! This is my first summer back in the Midwest since 2002. I forgot how...ah...uncomfortable it was!! Oh... and the bugs!! Didn't realize there were so many since Vegas never had any bugs so to speak. As you know, we've had hot weather WAY early this year. Heck, we were hotter than Vegas was during the months of April and May!! It's nice today - rainy and cloudy and it smells so good!
< I remember one time here in Chicago when the temp got above 100 and people were dropping dead. >
I remember that summer! It was 1995. It was unbearable. I think the count was almost 900 people died, many were the elderly who didn't want to turn on the AC or a fan because of the power bills. I was living downtown at the time and the ex was still working and would tell me stories of the "old days" when the police had to pick up the dead bodies - WITHOUT protective clothing, not even gloves!! He said you couldn't get the smell out of your clothes or off yourself. We were constantly seeing the ambulances at the known homeless buildings. The whole city was experiencing brownouts, including the Wrigleyville area; the residents were without power or very little of it and complained for days because the lights at Wrigley were on bright and clear for the baseball games!! In fact, we went to a game during that time and our beer got warm almost immediately!!
Desert heat is not for everyone, so everyone please leave!!
Does darthbry have any facts it can bring to the table or just empty rhetoric?
Please feel free to send some of that heat to the Northwest. Washington State. Thanks
Wow, you guys complain about Hot and Humid. The thing most of you guys don't realize is what Hot actually is. I live in Death valley. Our record High is 141. Our normal highs for the summer hit 120 easily, and that's an everyday thing, So for you people complaining in Chicago, don't, just be thankful. First of all, you guys barely touch 90 for your summer time temps, and second of all, humudity only makes the temps fell 10 to 20 degrees warmer. So that day you reached 100 degrees and people were dropping dead, just remember, it probly only felt like 120 degrees outside, which is an everyday normal for us that live in the Desert Southwest. Even Phoenix can hit 120, and a million people live there. So give the desert people some credit. We deal with heat too!
P.S. Don't use "no air conditioning" as an excuse because we all use fans out here in D.V.