I'll tell you what, this really has been a weird winter in Vegas. The coldest as a whole in my 10 years here. And I know it doesn't compare to what you people in other parts of the country have gone through. I don't know what to say about that, you choose that.
Here is Vegas there are basically 2 months of winter, December and January. Weather guides will list the average high temp as 57 for both months. But in my time here, we have always had 1 month with highs in the 50's and one of those months with beautiful weather and highs in the mid 60's. And then we hit February, still smack in the middle of winter for most of the country and we are usually off heading towards spring.
So this year, December was cold, highs in the 50's. And has happened every year so far, January, when most of the country was in that real deep freeze, we were in the mid 60's. I think we touched 70 a couple days. Just beautiful.
And then I made that post on February 1, thinking winter was over and we have been back in December ever since with highs in the low 50;s, a couple days not even hitting 50 and windy most days. Also more rain that usual. The mountains west of Summerlin and North of Alainte are snow covered. I was up at Alainte yesterday and the snow cover basically extended down to the base of the mountains. That would be the same elevation as the valley. On the news last night they said we might get snow on Wednesday! No accumulation, but snow in Vegas, which happens like once every 20 years. And towards the end of February when we are supposed to be steadily marching towards 70's and 80's.
Weird winter.