return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 4 months agoLas Vegas hits 120 degrees, hottest day on recordwww.fox5vegas.comexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up198arrow-down13cross-posted to: climate@slrpnk.net
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minus-squareSnausagesinaBlanket@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down32·4 months ago1981 I was there and it was 114° downtown, so not that much difference.
minus-squareValenThyme@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25arrow-down1·4 months agothe airport maxed out at 110° in july 1981 so a good 9% hotter measured at the same spot.
minus-squareSnausagesinaBlanket@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down12·edit-24 months agoI saw the bank thermometers and was there. In fact the sole of one of my Keds sneakers melted. It was 115° yesterday 7/6/24.
minus-squareValenThyme@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·4 months agoI don’t doubt what you are saying, McCarran isn’t in downtown though. The record setting measurement was made at McCarren so the actual records for that year from the airport are a closer comparison than whatever was happening downtown.
1981 I was there and it was 114° downtown, so not that much difference.
the airport maxed out at 110° in july 1981 so a good 9% hotter measured at the same spot.
I saw the bank thermometers and was there. In fact the sole of one of my Keds sneakers melted.
It was 115° yesterday 7/6/24.
I don’t doubt what you are saying, McCarran isn’t in downtown though. The record setting measurement was made at McCarren so the actual records for that year from the airport are a closer comparison than whatever was happening downtown.