99th day we reached 100° in 2024. Tomorrow will tie history, Wednesday will be close. Guidance for next week: below normal temps. If you can wait until next Tuesday: THE 80'S ARE COMING!
BIG TIME ACTION SHOT! Breakfast is served... or caught. Check out this Black-crowned Night Heron munching a Bluegill Sunfish at the Aliante Nature Discovery Park, north end of the Las Vegas Valley. Scott Krammer photo.
Expect wildfire smoke from California to be blown into the valley pushing ozone levels into the unhealthy for sensitive groups🟠 and particulates into moderate🟡 for #VegasAirQuality today. Minimize time outdoors, and get up to date info here:
desaqmonitoring.clarkcountynv.gov
Update on the Davis Fire, south of Reno. Latest mapping has the reported size at 5596 acres. 0% containment. 12 helicopters, and 423 total personnel in the fight. Brittany Riser, flying over Northern Nevada, captured this pic.
MANDATORY EVACUATIONS:
This is the frightening view from Lake Elsinore of the #AirportFire. As the fire jumps Ortega Highway, residents are now being evacuated west and south of Lake Elsinore… DEVELOPING
The WORST smoke we've experienced in the Las Vegas Valley since 2013 (Carpenter 1 Fire in the Spring Mountains). You could smell it last night, and taste it this morning. YUK. Pics from Karen Dzielsky, Jose Arzate, Tim Crowley and Emily Hoxsey.
Challenging air quality day when the mountains are obscured by wildfire smoke from California. Labor Day 2020 was about this bad as well as the Carpenter 1 Fire weeks back in 2013. Cameron Grant with the aerial photo from this morning.
The view from above. 3 California wildfires blowing smoke eastward. Thickest smoke is now east of Las Vegas and into Utah. However, Clark County Air Quality sensors still categorizing the air as unhealthy-very unhealthy.
A couple Mt. Charleston "resident" horses in the foreground, and the world famous, historic, Lee Canyon pay phone in the background. Clint Hatfield pic.
Air quality will not be pretty, as winds will usher in waves of smoke tomorrow AND Saturday. But speaking of pretty... an eerie, but cool looking smoke induced Thursday sunrise from the Lake Las Vegas overlook. Photo: Tabitha Kast