Day Six At Or Above 115F For Las Vegas; Records Tumbling Across The West

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L​ast Sunday, July 7, the official temperature sensor at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas climbed to 120 degrees. T​hat crushed the city's all-time record of 117 degrees, set in 1942 and tied in 2005, 2013, 2017 and 2021. B​ut that wasn't the end of it.

Vegas soared to 119 degrees two days later on July 9, then 118 degrees the following day. They've now sweated through their three hottest days in 87 years of records, and a record six straight days with highs of 115 degrees or more.

P​erhaps what's most stunning about this is the airport sits about 1,000 feet higher in elevation and 250 miles northwest of Phoenix, Arizona. Phoenix has only reached 120 degrees three times in 130 years, and hasn't done so since July 1995.

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P​alm Springs (124 degrees on July 5) topped its previous all-time standard from 2021, 1995 and 1993. B​arstow, in California's Mojave Desert north of Los Angeles, tied its all-time record (118 degrees) three days in a row from July 7-9. A​nd Bishop, in California's Owens Valley at an elevation of just over 4,100 feet, chalked up four straight days with highs in the 110s in this heat wave. That had happened only twice before dating to 1943.

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https://weather.com/news/weather/news/2024-07-11-western-heat-wave-all-time-records-set-california-nevada