Las Vegas Broils at 109°F: A Heat-Wave Postcard from Humanity’s Neon-Lit Future
Weather Las Vegas: A Mirage of Normalcy in the Age of Global Pyrotechnics By Dave’s Foreign Correspondent-at-Large (currently hiding from the sun in an airport bar) LAS VEGAS—The Strip’s thermometers are doing that coy little dance again, flickering between 109°F (42.7°C) and “Surface-of-Mercury.” Locals call it “dry heat,” a phrase that translates internationally as “at…