Will It Ever Snow in Las Vegas Again
Reporting from Las Vegas —
They weren't exactly deploying the snowplows onto the Las Vegas Strip and they weren't shoveling out the entrances to the casinos, either.
But, nonetheless, it snowed in Las Vegas on Sunday nighttime.
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12:00 p.m. February. 19, 2019 An earlier version of this article said the ski resort at Mt. Charleston is within Las Vegas city limits. The resort, which has a Las Vegas mailing address, is outside the city.
For a metropolis that was built in the sand and boasts giant replicas of a pyramid, the Eiffel Tower and virtually the entire borough of Manhattan, it was met with wonderment and surprise in a place non easily bowled over.
"Um, what the….." tweeted the Nevada Highway Patrol above a 10-second video of snow falling lightly beneath the orange glow of a street lamp.
And then came the National Weather Service in Las Vegas almost two hours later.
"It HAPPENED!" the atmospheric condition service tweeted.
An avalanche of tweets, Instagram and Facebook posts followed. The National Weather Service in Seattle noticed and quickly commissioned a poll request people how they felt about Las Vegas getting snow. "Nosotros but couldn't assistance but share a little of our snow with our friends at @NWSVegas!" they tweeted.
It wasn't long before social media posts with pictures and videos of the falling snow spurred people to head out and experience information technology in the real world.
(Caroline Brehman / Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Steve and Jackie DeLeon grabbed sleds that had been gathering grit in the garage for 10 years and drove out to a park in the west role of boondocks. Their two children, viii-twelvemonth-erstwhile Catalina and fifteen-yr-old Daytona, trudged upwardly a colina covered in white and settled into the sleds.
The snow was coming down in large flakes. Information technology was past nine p.yard. and the temperature was 32 degrees. The Michigan natives, who have lived in Las Vegas for 15 years, said this didn't compare with what they experienced in Saginaw.
But it would practise.
"Nosotros couldn't laissez passer up this opportunity," Jackie DeLeon said. "This just doesn't happen likewise frequently."
The two kids screamed equally the sled took off downward the slick hill, gathering speed until it shot past the sidewalk at the base and came to a stop. They picked it up and began walking up the hill again side by side to the runway left by the sled — which had exposed some grass.
Not far away, a man stood on the pitcher'due south mound of a snow-covered baseball field and fired a modest snowball toward home plate.
Throughout the valley, parked cars slowly began to develop snow beards on front bumpers. Trees glistened with snow. Gamblers who had come in from the snow chatted with dealers well-nigh information technology between easily and die rolls. The lights at the new baseball stadium for the minor league squad, the Aviators, lighted upwardly a soft cascade of snow falling onto its field.
The roadways effectually the city and forth Interstate 15 were more often than not wet and the Nevada Highway Patrol urged people to drive carefully and look out for black ice. By Monday morning time, a section of I-15 was closed for a few hours betwixt St. Rose Parkway and the unincorporated town of Primm because of multiple accidents related to ice, the Nevada Highway Patrol reported.
National Weather Service meteorologist Chris Outler said it was uncommon for the snowfall to be as widespread as it was in Las Vegas valley.
(Caroline Brehman / Las Vegas Review-Journal)
In the community of Summerlin, which borders Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area — the weather service said some parts got up to 2.v inches and the scenic drive was closed until late Monday morn. Mt. Charleston, which is nearly 45 minutes from the Las Vegas Strip, got more than 3.five inches of snow and the ski resort has all 26 of its trails open.
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Clark County spokesman Dan Kulin said snowplows had been sent to articulate roads at Mount Charleston. Yes, in that location are snowplows in Clark Canton. Four, to be exact.
In the southward end of the city, most the M Resort Spa and Casino, one to 2 inches were reported. McCarran International Airport, the Las Vegas Strip and downtown Fremont Street reported traces of sticking snow.
Gabriella Muno, spokeswoman at the airport, said no flights were delayed or halted because of the weather.
The snow was not unprecedented. In 2008, the airdrome got more than 3 inches. That dump caused delays to flights because of low visibility, and stranded some travelers overnight.
But snowfall totals similar those in 2008 are unusual for Las Vegas.
This month, snow has fallen on Las Vegas already — though not with the totals seen Sunday dark. And multiple snow days in February are non mutual. Since 1939, February has seen more than 3 snowfall days only twice — the last time in 1949.
The latest that snow always fell in Las Vegas in a winter was March 3, 1976, Outler said.
Sunday's snowfall was produced past a big cold air mass that has gripped Western states in the past few weeks. Seattle has been getting striking with snow repeatedly this month and Lake Tahoe is within striking distance of record snowfall totals.
Snow has even managed to hitting parts of Hawaii unaccustomed to seeing it. The Polipoli Jump State Recreation Expanse got a rare snowfall on Maui — believed to be the first snow in about a century, according to the Maui News. The peaks of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa — both over 13,000 anxiety — get snow regularly.
Las Vegas may not be done with snowfall either. Outler said there is a proficient gamble of more snowfall for Thursday.
david.montero@latimes.com | Twitter: @davemontero
Source: https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-vegas-snow-20190218-story.html
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