Clear Las Vegas sky to turn mostly cloudy with gusty winds
A clear Wednesday sky will gradually turn to clouds by late afternoon with winds gusting up to 30 mph in the Las Vegas Valley, according to the latest National Weather Service forecast.
“It should be pretty nice day and then be mostly cloudy by 4 p.m.,” weather service meteorologist Kate Guillet said. “It will get breezy in the afternoon with gusts from 20 to 30 mph around the valley.”
The front moving across the valley from Southern California will be a one-day event, to be followed by a weekend of clear skies and highs in the middle 70s.
We call these clouds cirrocumulus! Altocumulus was a great guess - but we suspect these clouds are a little higher in altitude, and mostly made of ice crystals. #VegasWeather https://t.co/WsrCHBo2xk
— NWS Las Vegas (@NWSVegas) March 3, 2021
Thursday should see a high around 68 with a 73 on Friday, a 75 on Saturday and 73 on Sunday.
A second front, this one coming from a more northerly direction will increase winds on Saturday.
No precipitation is expected from either front, extending the dry conditions. February, normally one of the wettest months of the year, saw McCarran International Airport receive just 0.01 inches of rain.
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