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Old 09-10-2013, 07:46 PM
 
Location: Paradise
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I love it. The cooler temps and the rain. I feel human again.
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Old 09-10-2013, 07:57 PM
 
Location: Farrr Northwest Las Vegas
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Rain I'm OK with. This humidity is beyond awful. I cannot live in the South for that exact reason!
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Old 09-10-2013, 08:04 PM
 
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
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Enjoy it while you can. It doesn't happen very often. Kevin Janison, Ch-3 weatherman, gave this stat tonight - so far we've had 19 days of monsoon weather. The previous record was only 11. I think that was set in 1982 or so. Usually the monsoons hit in July and August, and most of it stays in Arizona and Utah. Today it only got up to 81. That's a wonderful change for us. Next week will be dry again and back into the 90s. Humid? Even when it's pouring rain our humidity is half what they get back east, especially in the southeast.
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Old 09-10-2013, 08:10 PM
 
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
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Humidity, lol, y'all crack me up! I was in Charleston, SC two weeks ago - now THAT's humidity. Las Vegas this week is what southerners call dry...
I was in Chawlst'n in late October a couple of years back. It was so hot and humid it nearly made us sick. Then on the way to Florida I stopped at Parris Island to show my wife the place I had a love hate relationship with, and it was 20 degrees hotter and 20% more humid than Charleston which is right up the road a piece. Jacksonville was even worse than Charleston. Love Charleston though. I like to say it's Nawlins with class.
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Old 09-10-2013, 09:53 PM
 
Location: Tucson/Nogales
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This prolonged humidity spell, some 3 weeks now, has been raising holy hell with my body and if those "terrorists"/clouds don't move out of the valley by next week I'll be shopping around for an electric wheelchair!

My right hip is screaming the loudest! To put my pants on I have to physically pull my right leg up and insert it into the pants! Getting into the car, I have to physically lift my right leg and drag it into the car!

I asked my co-workers the last few days how they were holding up to all this humidity, and I'm not alone! Aches and pains, aches and pains! Pain medications!

I'm beginning to explore ideas for next summer if this should re-occur. Where to go to dry out here in the SW?
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Old 09-10-2013, 10:00 PM
 
Location: Tucson/Nogales
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This is a Phoenix level Monsoon. They do not get this far north normally. But actually I thought it was kind of nice.

Note this years rainfall is still only half of normal.
Rainfall measurements, what a deception! A few weeks ago, on the news, I heard that an inch and a half of rain fell in one area of Henderson, little or no rainfall for the rest of the valley. Then you hear of a big downpour elsewhere in the valley, and yet, they go with the measurement of rain, for the year, at the Airport!

I can just see it happening one year, a 4-inch downpour out near Red Rock, no precipitation recorded at the Airport, and the city is flooded! And yet, we go down on record that year as one of the driest ever!
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Old 09-10-2013, 10:09 PM
 
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
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Rainfall measurements, what a deception! A few weeks ago, on the news, I heard that an inch and a half of rain fell in one area of Henderson, little or no rainfall for the rest of the valley. Then you hear of a big downpour elsewhere in the valley, and yet, they go with the measurement of rain, for the year, at the Airport!

I can just see it happening one year, a 4-inch downpour out near Red Rock, no precipitation recorded at the Airport, and the city is flooded! And yet, we go down on record that year as one of the driest ever!
How would you measure it?
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Old 09-10-2013, 10:10 PM
 
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
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Rainfall measurements, what a deception! A few weeks ago, on the news, I heard that an inch and a half of rain fell in one area of Henderson, little or no rainfall for the rest of the valley. Then you hear of a big downpour elsewhere in the valley, and yet, they go with the measurement of rain, for the year, at the Airport!

I can just see it happening one year, a 4-inch downpour out near Red Rock, no precipitation recorded at the Airport, and the city is flooded! And yet, we go down on record that year as one of the driest ever!
My dad used to say his aching bones told him when it was going to rain. He called it rheumatism.
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Old 09-10-2013, 10:27 PM
 
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I've already been called crazy, but the weather has been great. Feels like I'm in an area that can sustain life.
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Old 09-10-2013, 10:49 PM
 
Location: Tucson/Nogales
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How would you measure it?
Good question! How to measure rainfall for the widely diverse Las Vegas Valley! At least when I watch the weather on the local channels, it will report the widely diverse rainfall measurements throughout the valley after a storm.

I can view the Wash, that goes from DI to Sahara, from my 2nd floor window, and when I see the Wash is rushing, and yet no rain my area of town, I knew there was a downpour somewhere to the west of the valley. How far away, who knows!!
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