Las Vegas Sun

March 29, 2024

Sunny, hot today for Las Vegas

Southern Nevada under red flag wildfire warning Wednesday

Las Vegas is expected be sunny and hot today, but just below the triple digit mark, according to the National Weather Service.

A low pressure system over the Pacific northwest, which will move into northern Nevada by Wednesday, will bring breezy southwest winds of 10 to 20 mph this afternoon and even stronger winds on Wednesday, the weather service said.

The weather service has issued a red flag wildfire warning from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Wednesday for southern Nevada, northwest Arizona and the Mojave Desert of southeast California.

Wind speeds between 20 and 30 mph, with gusts of 35 mph to 45 mph will occur within the warning area, forecasters sadid.

These gust winds will combine with relative humidity values in the single digits at elevations below 5,000 feet and 10 to 15 percent at higher elevations, forecasters said.

Winds will begin to shift and become northwest across south central Nevada late Wednesday afternoon through early evening behind a cold front, they said.

Northwest to north winds gusting between 35 and 45 mph will continue as the front pushes down through southern Nevada by late Wednesday evening, they said. North winds should decrease to less than 30 mph after 10 p.m. and relative humidity values will recover to above 20 percent, they said.

At 4:56 a.m. today, the temperature at McCarran International Airport was 74 degrees. The normal low for today's date is 72 degrees. The record low was 52 degrees, set in 1962.

Around the valley just before 5 a.m., temperatures were 71 degrees at North Las Vegas Airport, 70 degrees at Nellis Air Force Base and 74 degrees at Henderson Executive Airport.

Temperatures in the valley were to rise today to 83 degrees by 9 a.m., to 93 degrees by noon and, by 3 p.m., reach a high of 99 degrees, which is the normal high for today's date. The record high was 116 degrees, set in 1940.

Temperatures are expected to drop to 98 degrees by 6 p.m., to 91 degrees by 9 p.m. and to 85 degrees by midnight, forecasters said.

Wednesday's morning low will be 77 degrees and Wednesday's high will climb to 94 degrees, they said.

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