LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — It’s been another active start to our Tuesday. We’re waking up to cloudy skies and rainy weather in Las Vegas and Southern Nevada, after a very active evening across the region with showers and thunderstorms thanks to an increase in tropical moisture from the Pacific Ocean remaining in our atmosphere.
Before we get to what’s going on this morning, we need to wrap up what happened Monday night: our official rainfall total at Reid Airport was .23″, but several neighborhoods in the valley — like the southwest, parts of Henderson and Boulder City — saw rain totals closer to half an inch, thanks to periods of heavy downpours accompanied by lightning and thunder, as well as some localized flooding.
The rain has been much lighter this morning so far, though, as the first few bands of widespread showers made their way across the valley starting at 6 a.m. — our official total so far is .02″ at Reid Airport…