A COLD UPPER LEVEL LOW MOVING ACROSS SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA AND
SOUTHERN NEVADA TODAY (SUNDAY 5/23/2010) HELPED SEVERAL AREAS TO SET NEW RECORD LOW
MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES...ALSO CALLED THE COLDEST HIGH TEMPERATURE EVER
RECORDED ON THIS DATE.
IN LAS VEGAS THE HIGH TEMPERATURE ONLY REACHED 63 DEGREES TODAY AT
MCCARRAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...THE OFFICIAL CLIMATE STATION FOR
LAS VEGAS. THIS BROKE THE PREVIOUS RECORD LOW MAXIMUM OF 67 DEGREES
SET BACK IN 2008. LIKE THIS YEAR...THAT RECORD LOW MAXIMUM WAS SET
WHEN A COLD UPPER LOW MOVED ACROSS THE AREA. RECORDS FOR LAS VEGAS
DATE BACK TO 1937.
AT BISHOP CALIFORNIA THE HIGH TODAY WAS ONLY 61 DEGREES AND THIS
BROKE THE OLD RECORD LOW MAXIMUM OF 62 SET IN 1980. RECORDS FOR
BISHOP DATE BACK TO 1943.
FINALLY AT NEEDLES CALIFORNIA THE HIGH TEMPERATURE WAS A COOL 71
DEGREES. THIS BROKE THE OLD RECORD LOW MAXIMUM OF 73 DEGREES SET IN
1957. RECORDS FOR NEEDLES DATE BACK TO 1948.
Above info Courtesy
NWS Office Las Vegas
