I'll be coming to vegas next week and not looking forward to this. Pic below published today in the seattle times:
I'll be coming to vegas next week and not looking forward to this. Pic below published today in the seattle times:
Originally Posted by Sitting Out
I'll be coming to vegas next week and not looking forward to this. Pic below published today in the seattle times:
I just got out of there Wednesday night and the high was 105 or so which still sucked balls. I have been there when it is 110 + many times and you really cant do shit except stay in the casino. IMO even the pool is a no go at those temperatures. Even getting a cab can suck balls. For example, the cosmos taxi line is actually in the parking garage which is about 10 degrees warmer than it is outside. If there is a line you could be there for 20 mins + dying.
I been in Vegas when it was 115 and I gotta say il take that dry heat over a say 90 but super humid day here in Mtl. Dryheat>humidity
I use to walk from stratosphere to library north of downtown lv and back in 115 #ezwork also walked from stratosphere to rio in plus 100 temps, got use to it
so f'ing this.
Give me 115 Vegas over 97 Nashville/Chicago/Orlando.
I heard all time heat records about to be set.
Flying back to TX today...only 101 in Houston, brrrrr
I guess a lot of it is getting used to it. Coming from the Northwest, it probably hits 95 a few times a year (this week being one of them).
I guess a lot of it is getting used to it. Coming from the Northwest, it probably hits 95 a few times a year (this week being one of them).
Once it gets above 85 i feel like i'm dying.
Humidity is the killer. I'm not a sun/beach/pool person when I'm in Vegas.
Can I take advantage of the weather and fly in cheap when it's extremely hot ?
Yes. Las Vegas is forecasted for three straight days of 117 degrees, which will occur from Saturday through Monday.
The interesting thing to watch will be to see if it gets to 118. The all-time high in Vegas is 117, which has been tied several times, including a few times over the past 10 years or so. Last summer was actually pretty mild in Vegas.
This year saw a weird few days in early June where it reached 112 (normal is around 100), but it has been relatively cool (98-103 type highs) for most of June since. It is very common to break 110 in July, so this spike is normal.
I am actually surprised that it's never been 118 in Vegas, given the number of 115, 116, and 117 temps I've seen during my last decade in Vegas.
Today's high is forecasted to be 115. Right now it's 108, but the high typically occurs at around 5pm, and it's only 2:20 right now.
People like to say, "At least it's a dry heat", but that only applies to temperatures around 100. I agree that 100-105 in Vegas is more comfortable than 95 in New York City or Atlanta. However, once you break 110 -- and especially 115 -- it's a different story. I describe it as a "wall of heat", where you walk outside and you feel a wall of uncomfortable hot air immediately hit you. If you're standing still, it's tolerable, but if you try to walk anywhere, you will feel extremely hot and will get dehydrated really fast.
So once it's over 110, dry heat or not, it's still over 110.
Death Valley, California, which is about 140 miles from Vegas, is the hottest place on earth. It's 280 feet BELOW sea level, and tends to see temperatures around 130 at least once per year, and spends most of the summer with highs over 120. It's actually an interesting and unique place to see, but you should go between mid-fall and early spring. Death Valley's 134 degrees in 1913 was the hottest temperature ever recorded on earth. I don't think we'll break that this weekend because it's "only" forecasted to be 129 there. Strangely enough, Death Valley actually gets a lot of summer tourists -- primarily Europeans who go there mainly for the novelty of spending time in a place over 120 degrees.
For those driving between Vegas and LA between Saturday and Monday, take care. Baker, which is on the way (about 90 miles from Vegas) will likely be in the 120s, and may spots throughout the desert will be near or above 120. Make sure you have water with you, because you could actually die of dehydration if your car breaks down and nobody gets to help you soon enough.
Oh, speaking of Death Valley, I have a cool picture of this sign:
It's a "split screen" picture. The left side shows me standing in front of the sign in 1978, with my 2-year-old brother.
The right side shows me standing in front of the sign in 2011, with 1-year-old Benjamin.
After finding the 1978 picture, I made sure to take a 2011 version of it when I went to Death Valley for the first time in 33 years.
That's salt in the background, not snow (except on the mountains, which is snow.)
Imagine that, it's hot in the desert during summer. What your next thread? Cold in Alaska in winter?
I couldn't imagine staying in a place like Death Valley for a long period of time. The heat index actually gets lower then it's temperature because of low humidity levels but with it being that hot and extremely dry it's got to be really rough on your skin.
The humidity really irritates me but the extreme dryness I'm sure would too. I could imagine walking around their and doing the little outside nose itch and having it gush out blood from it being so damn dry.
For anyone doing anything active outside in conditions like that you would need a beer keg of water with you.
I love to see records broken and hopefully they somehow get to 135 which would be very cool considering it was the year 1913 when the record happened.
Humidity in Death Valley is often 1% or less.
Right now humidity in Las Vegas is 7%.
It's 118 here in Phoenix today.
Perfect day to hit some errl and hang out by the pool.
This reminds of an incident I had with my gf driving back from Reno in the summer time. It was in the 70's and I was driving an old beater Opel (we were young, and had no money.) Outside of Reno with no services or houses around for miles the radiator overheated. We didn't have any water, but I had several cases of Coors I was bringing back. I went through at least a case trying to get it in the radiator, but it mostly just foamed up. We eventually were able to limp to the next watering hole. So your advice to take water is well advised...
I do remember the first day I was in Vegas in '10 I was sitting where the dealers smoke at the rio, " I remember thinking wtf is this?" I had never felt pure heat like that. But like I said after a month your body gets use to it. Humidity and heat, I will never get use to ever, brutal. That's east Canada for u cold as fuck in the winter humid as fuck in the summer. The west coast of Canada has good weather year round if u don't mind rain in the winter. Druff I know what your talking about "wall of heat" only ever felt that when I was in Vegas.
lol oh yeah the wall of heat blows .
I call bullshit on this. I only saw 115 today. Maybe the airport hit 117, but most of the city never touched it.
In contrast, I think in 2006 it was 117 several days in a row.
I was driving in the desert today (about 100 miles south of Vegas) and it was 119 at one point. That's actually the hottest temperature I've ever experienced, though I was in a car so I didn't feel it.
Laughlin was 120 today.
Death Valley has hit 130 several times over the past decade. That typically happens once per year. Nothing thrilling about 130 there. The 134 record would be notable if tied or broken. I don't see it happening this year.
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