The Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather: Las Vegas dealt messy weather as it welcomes Super Bowl crowds
Start your day with the latest weather news – The storm system that swept through California on Wednesday is bringing more unsettled weather to the Southwest, including Las Vegas as football fans arrive in Sin City.
Weather in America: February 8, 2024
FOX Weather has you covered with the breaking forecasts and weather news headlines for your Weather in America on Thursday, February 8, 2024. Get the latest from FOX Weather Meteorologist Britta Merwin.
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Messy weather welcomes Super Bowl fans to Las Vegas
Las Vegas is known for its desert climate, but people arriving for the Super Bowl are being greeted by wet weather in Nevada’s largest city. In the higher elevations north and west of Sin City, snow has been falling and creating dicey conditions. The weather should begin improving by Thursday night, with sunshine expected to return before the big game.
NFL fans can expect sunny skies with temperatures in the mid-50s on Sunday for the Super Bowl in Las Vegas.
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Where’s the stinky seaweed headed this year?
Last year, beachgoers in Florida were welcomed by tons of sargassum seaweed that had washed ashore. Researchers say they have an idea of where it is headed this year, noting that places in the eastern Caribbean Sea could start seeing it by late February or early March.
FILE - Monica Madrigal find her way out of the ocean through a thick raft of Sargassum seaweed that washed up on the seashore by the 71st Street area in Miami Beach Tuesday July 28, 2020. (Pedro Portal/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
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2024 starts with broken heat records
The numbers are in, and scientists say that the first month of 2024 was Earth’s warmest January on record. Ocean temperatures also broke records during January.
The red shows areas warmer than average for January 2024 while the blue shows colder than average. Average is 1991-2020. One degree Celsius is equal to 1.8 degrees Farenheit.
(Copernicus Climate Change Service/ECMWF / FOX Weather)
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A New York man decided to take his truck for a joyride through the waves on a Florida beach and ended up in handcuffs.
Video: Truck driving into high surf on New Smyrna Beach
Bystander video and Volusia County Sheriff's Office body camera video shows a man accused of driving on the beach in New Smyrna Beach when the beach access was closed due to high surf.
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