Week begins warm, windy for Las Vegas Valley
It will be a warm and windy start to the workweek for the Las Vegas Valley.
The high temperature Monday should be about 100 with winds gusting to 25 mph in the afternoon, said meteorologist Kate Guillet, of the Las Vegas office of the National Weather Service.
The overnight low will be about 75 with winds gusting into the low 20s.
Tuesday will see similar conditions with a high near 98 and winds blowing up to 25 mph.
Highs the rest of the week will be in the low 100s.
Warm May
With an average temperature of 80.7 degrees, last month was the eighth-warmest May in Las Vegas since the weather service began keeping records.
The average is derived by taking the high and the low for each day in the month, Guillet said. The May average temperature is 77.3 degrees, and the record for the month is 83.6 in 2009.
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Monsoon season begins
Although it is hard to determine moisture probabilities well into the summer, the weather service is highlighting monsoon awareness this week.
“There is no clear indication about moisture several weeks away, but it’s safe to say that we will have above average temperatures,” Guillet said of one of the key factors to monsoon conditions.
Monsoon season officially started Monday and runs through Sept. 30.
Red flag warning
A red flag warning is in effect from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday and Tuesday for Southern Nevada and northwest Arizona.
Winds gusting to 35 mph with humidity around 5 to 15 percent will create possible wildfire conditions. Outdoor burning is highly discouraged.
Contact Marvin Clemons at mclemons@reviewjournal.com. Follow @Marv_in_Vegas in Twitter.
