How’s this for some pretty shocking news to start out the day … Las Vegas, NV — the famous desert resort that was converted from an arid wasteland into America’s adult arcade/playground — got covered in SNOW yesterday and early this morning … and the forecast is for more snow to come. If this ain’t proof that the world’s ecosystem is going all haywire, then I don’t know what else is — talk about your inconvenient truths. Check out these amazing and mind boggling photos of a snow-covered Vegas:
A rare pre-winter storm brought Las Vegas its heaviest snowfall in nearly three decades, closing the airport and freeways as several inches coated marquees on the Las Vegas Strip and weighed down palm trees. The storm Wednesday and early Thursday also dumped snow on rain on much of southern California and parts of Nevada outside Las Vegas. The National Weather Service measured 3.6 inches of snow overnight at Las Vegas’ McCarran International Airport, and meteorologist Jerome Jacques said about 2 inches was left before dawn on the ground near the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign. “Snow is not unknown in the Las Vegas valley. On average we get 1/2 inch of snow a year,” Jacques said. “But this amount made it a significant storm. We haven’t had this amount of snow since 1979
The weather service recorded 7.5 inches of snow at McCarran on Jan. 30-31, 1979. The snow Wednesday prompted the cancellation of all flights in and out of Vegas. Visitors parked and posed for pictures wearing hooded jackets. Other parts of Nevada were forecast to receive as much as 8 inches of snow in the second winter storm this week to drop snow on the desert city. Snowfall is common in nearby mountains hills, but not on the Strip or surrounding neighborhoods.
Wow! These are images that I never thought I’d ever see … the Las Vegas strip covered with snow. You know, it was cold in LV over the weekend when my friends and I were there but wasn’t anywhere near snow conditions. Here in LA last night, the temps. fell into the low 40s. I half expected to open my blinds this morning and find snow on the ground here as well. Right now, we’re only about 10 degrees away from freezing! Oy! I hope it’s warm or at least bearable wherever in the world YOU are today … cuz it’s cold here on the West Side. It really is beginning to look a lot like Xmas.
That is so scary! On Tuesday in N TX it got down to the low 20′s with wind chill in the teens and tomorrow it’s going to be 75. Everyone is getting sick.
Summer – It was just plain weird and I’m glad no one freaked out over it. We just marveled over it and enjoyed it since it had been years since it snowed and probably will be years again for the next snowfal. Hm, scratch that, maybe sooner rather than later.
BTW, I’m in West Houston and it was really coming down.
Here in the “D” it’s been in the teens for weeks & winter hasn’t even started! It’s freaking misery, at least now some of the rest of the country knows what it’s like to live in these parts! It freaking SUCKS!
@Mrs. Shermender — UGH! that is so news I don’t want to hear … I’m flying back home next Monday night
i’m from vegas and just recently moved… and we got snow a little bit the last two years but nothing that would stick… from what i hear the snow they just got is crazy from some friends i’m getting ready to see for myself
I’m up in the 509 where we are at about 25 inches of snow on the ground and yes, there is more to come. Its insane! Our entire city is shut down!
Meh. People forget that cycles in weather are very common, much like in the economy. This isn’t the first time it’s snowed in Vegas and it’s also not the first time the economy has gone under. Cycles are a normal part of the way the earth and society runs, I dunno why people are freaking out so much about either. Yes, global warming is an issue but I don’t think current weather conditions are a sign that the world is ending.
Don’t get me wrong, obviously the recession and global warming are an issue but I just think that people are overlooking the fact that we have faced both before, in the past, and that these kinds of things are more than likely to cease and then reoccur again in the future.
So I guess it was global warming in 1979. Of course back then they thought we were headed for a mini ice age.
WOW! Never in a million would I have ever expected to see these pictures. This is so weird and disconcerting….
it’s pretty cool to see vegas covered in snow.
Ugh, the weather better not pull this stunt when I’m in Vegas for New Years! Well, the bright side is my champagne will stay chilled :o)
just a quick ice storm later tonight to add to our snow already
midwest weather sucksss
I guess what (rarely) happens in Vegas, stays (on the ground) in Vegas. tee hee hee.
I think it’s time to stop saying “global warming” and only say “climate change” – the latter is maybe more accurate, while the former creates unfair expectations in the middle of December!
I’m from Argentina and we are at 95/96 here hahahahaha. It’s been like this since November, you get a week and a half of this incredible heat then a couple of days of rain and maybe the temperature drops and then again with the hotness. Last thursday it was 109! And I take the subway to work yay! it’l like 120 down there hahahaha.
Last July it snowed here in Buenos Aires for the first time after 90 years. People were out in the streets playing with snow (we only get snow in the south part of the country) all happy and amazed, I was more worried than anything else. We have a glaciar in the south (perito moreno), people come from all over the world to watch it crack it’s an amazing thing but it usually does it every 4 years, this time it only took it two to start breaking and falling.
Though it worries me I agree that the weather has always been changing throught the history of our planet, but I’m not sure if it was this fast.
Oh the irony…I’m in Charleston, SC and we hit 78 degrees the past two days and are supposed to get to at least 80 tomorrow.
Granted Sunday it’s supposed to be 45ish which is more typical for this time of year…
Kind of makes me happy since the last 5 days were like 20 below zero here in good old Montana. It’s finally above zero but not above freezing…
Atlanta, a week ago, felt like 35 degrees outside.
Today it’s about 70. I wore a short-sleeved shirt- very odd.
It was the weirdest thing to see snow here in Vegas yesterday. I’m originally from the Midwest (Go Wisco!), and it was funny to see everyone freaking out. Especially those who have never seen snow. All the kiddies were playing it.
Although, I did not enjoy the drivers. It seems not many people out here know how to drive in it.
And get this, schools were cancelled today! It was really insane. I think they thought it was going to freeze because the roads were just fine when I went into work.
well northern ireland is oddly a lot colder than what it normally is at this time of year…but damp and wet nothing new there! i wouldnt mind some of your snow though, few extra days off work would go down a treat! take care everyone :)
I am in NYC and it’s 38 degrees for me right now. It’s gonna snow tomorrow idk exactly how much we are getting, but i am guessing anywhere from 2-5 inches.