How Do You Like Your Vegas Weather?
How do you like your Vegas weather? Pleasant and mild or fiery and stroke inducing? Personally I like it mild, a touch on the cool side with a nice breeze. (I know, what am I doing here then?) The weather over the last week has been just about perfect: We’re able to leave our windows open all night until about afternoon when we creep back up to 90 and need to close up and turn on the AC. Soon we’ll be able to leave them open all day and believe you me, I look forward to that all year!
I’m always amazed at how many people make it a point to come here in the dead of summer. It’s insanely hot and uncomfortable outside yet the Strip is always packed with people cutting across traffic making their way around on foot, apparently oblivious. Is it truly like being a kid again to the point that you just forget what the weather’s like because you’re having so much fun? (Do you ever remember how hot summer was as a kid? I don’t.)
Temps here are consistently above 100 degrees from the end of May to mid-September, yet those are the busiest tourist times here. We average over 300 sunny days a year but only four inches of rainfall.
So how do you prefer it? Will the absolute relief from the heat in November be a plus or minus for you Blog World Expo goers? (You might even need long sleeves!)
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5 opinions for How Do You Like Your Vegas Weather?
Matt
Oct 2, 2007 at 3:03 pm
We once visited Vegas during the first week of July. Holy cow, never again. The temperatures were upper 90s and 100s the entire time we were there. The funniest thing? While watching the local news, they didn’t consider it “hot” until it was over 100. Eep!
People often comment, “Oh, but it’s a dry heat.” Well, hot is hot. And the lack of humidity is almost MORE dangerous. My friend and I only walked ONE block in the heat before we felt dehydrated and light-headed.
Fortunately, on the Strip, the casinos are so close to each other that you can hop from one to another easily, sometimes without even stepping foot outside.
sherry
Oct 2, 2007 at 5:16 pm
I can’t imagine wanting to visit Vegas in the dead heat. It’s one thing to go to the tropics when you’re sitting by a beach all day with your feet in the ocean and a cocktail in your hand, but walking around the strip with the blazing sun cooking everyone? Nope! I’d definitely come in the cooler times!
Cool hat - literally!
Oct 3, 2007 at 7:28 am
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vegas is cool
Oct 3, 2007 at 7:40 am
just think cool, man
Heather
Oct 3, 2007 at 9:47 am
Matt - exactly, dry heat is still brutal heat, it just means there’s no moisture to help you cool down when a breeze kicks through.
Sherry - I’d much rather be on a beach than here in the dead of summer! :D
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