Las Vegas Valley hit with trace of rain

Pockets of clouds drizzling slight amounts of rain moved across Henderson and east Las Vegas Sunday afternoon, but it was only enough to register as a trace.

Las Vegas has been without a measurable rainfall for 137 days, but a bank of clouds moving from south to north moved along just east of Interstate 15 around 2:30 p.m. The local record for days without measurable rainfall is 150, according to the National Weather Service.

The clouds left only a trace of moisture at the weather service's official measuring post at McCarran International Airport, but between one- and six-tenths of an inch of precipitation were reported by residents in parts of east Las Vegas and Green Valley.

A Nevada Power spokesman said the storm knocked out power to a small number of homes and street lights for a short period of time.

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