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Las Vegas weather forecast:
Friday 117 degrees
Saturday 118
Sunday 118
Monday 118
"It’s going to be hot today. And tomorrow. And the next day and the next.
Not just hot. Like, extremely hot. No. XX-TREEMELY HAWT, so hot you need to make up a new spelling to get your message across.
Every government agency and its mom is tossing out safety tips, hoping some of them stick. Heck, the city of Las Vegas even cancelled its movie in the park festivities, scheduled for tonight. It’s just too dangerous.
Even the Regional Transportation Commission is getting extra buses ready and asking its mechanics to be on standby all weekend.
Why does this happen to us? We can stand 105 degrees. We laugh it off.
Haha!
That’s us.
And then it’s 110, and we get uncomfortable. But it’s the desert, we say. We knew this was going to happen.
It cools back down to 104 and we begin to laugh again, mocking our East Coast friends who whine and cry like babies when it hits 97 degrees.
Then a couple years go by, and we get complacent and we don’t remember that the last time it hit 117 degrees we actually had flashbacks to that one time in childhood that we opened the oven door to look at the Thanksgiving turkey and we did not know that a blast of super-heated air was coming and it whacked us in the face like a demonic hair dryer and we staggered back because we thought we were going to die right there in the kitchen with all the grown-up relatives not having a clue.
That’s when this happens.
It’s going to be 120 degrees somewhere in town this weekend, probably a couple degrees cooler at the official measuring station at McCarran International Airport."
