Friday -
Mostly sunny. Highs around 99 on the west side of the valley...around 107 on the east side. Light wind becoming southeast up to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Friday Night -
Partly cloudy. Lows 80 to 84. South wind 10 to 15 mph.
Saturday -
Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 97 on the west side of the valley... around 105 on the east side. South wind less than 10 mph.
Saturday Night -
Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of thunderstorms in the evening...then mostly cloudy after midnight. Lows 79 to 83. South wind 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
Sunday -
Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of thunderstorms. Highs around 94 on the west side of the valley...around 102 on the east side.
Sunday Night through Monday Night -
Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of thunderstorms. Lows 77 to 84. Highs 94 to 96 on the west side of the valley...102 to 105 on the east side.
Tuesday through Thursday -
Mostly clear. Highs 97 to 99 on the west side of the valley...106 to 108 on the east side. Lows 78 to 85.
... Record high minimum temperature tied at Las Vegas Thursday...
The low temperature today at McCarran International Airport - the official climate station for Las Vegas - so far has been 88 degrees. This ties the old record high minimum temperature - or warmest low temperature ever - for the date of 88 last set in 1980.
The above information is preliminary and is subject to a final review and certification by the National climatic data center.
Public Information Statement As of 8:10 PM MST on July 29, 2010
... The monsoon shows up for some...
Thursday afternoon was one of the more active days so far this monsoon season in Mohave County Arizona. Scattered showers and thunderstorms developed largely along a boundary across Mohave County that separated juicier air to the east over Arizona and drier air to the west of the Colorado River. Most of the shower and thunderstorm activity was slow moving and given the high amounts of moisture available in the atmosphere over Mohave County was able to unleash locally heavy amounts of rain in under an hour. There were several small areas scattered across Mohave County where radar estimated at least 2 inches of rain falling. However as is the case with scattered showers and thunderstorms many areas so no rain at all fall and in most instances the rain that fell occurred over the higher elevations and left most valleys dry.
Below are a list of rainfall totals from this afternoon and evening across Mohave County through 8 PM MST on Thursday July 29th.
Wikieup - alert 1.22 inches Wikieup - mesonet 0.83 inch Mt Logan - RAWS 0.57 inch Hayden Peak - alert 0.47 inch Music Mountain - RAWS 0.47 inch Moss basin - RAWS 0.45 inch Yellow John Mountain - RAWS 0.31 inch hualapai mountain - alert 0.24 inch Grey Mountain - alert 0.20 inch Nixon flats - RAWS 0.18 inch Yucca/MacKenzie wash - alert 0.16 inch Vock Canyon - alert 0.12 inch Colorado City - alert 0.08 inch lookout wash near Kingman - mesonet 0.05 inch Craigs Knoll - alert 0.04 inch
At the Kingman Airport no rain fell at all today leaving the monthly total at a trace. July 1982 was the only other July to see a trace of rain fall at Kingman. However there have been five julys were no rain has fallen at all at Kingman - 1902... 1926... 1928... 1934 and most recently 1993. Records at Kingman date back to 1901.
Record Report As of 8:20 PM PDT on July 29, 2010