Umbrellas a sure bet in Las Vegas on Thursday as Super Bowl festivities kick off
Scattered showers are forecast in the Las Vegas area on Thursday morning. The showers may produce locally heavy rain. This is due to a storm that caused severe weather in California Wednesday and brought rain and snow showers to southern Nevada.
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The same weather system that brought snow to Flagstaff also brought record rainfall to Las Vegas. Fortunately, things are drying up before the Super Bowl on Sunday.
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Scattered showers are forecast in the Las Vegas area on Thursday morning. The showers may produce locally heavy rain. This is due to a storm that caused severe weather in California on Wednesday and brought rain and snow showers to southern Nevada.
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Las Vegas received 0.37 inches of rain at Harry Reid International Airport on Monday, setting a daily rainfall record to kick off Super Bowl week.
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Las Vegas colder than Minneapolis
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Since Super Bowl week kicked off Monday, the average high temperature in Las Vegas has been colder than Minneapolis, which hosted the Super Bowl in 2018.
Visiting football fans can expect some sunshine in Las Vegas during their stay, but high temperatures will only reach the mid-50s, with overnight lows dropping to the mid-to upper 30s over the weekend.
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"Super Bowl weekend has always been a large visitor weekend for Las Vegas regardless of where the game has been held," Brendan Bussmann, managing partner of B Global, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Allegiant Stadium, site of Super Bowl LVIII, is seen with the skyline of Las Vegas, Nevada, including hotels and casinos on Las Vegas Boulevard, known as the Las Vegas Strip, as seen from an airplane, February 5, 2024.
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According to research firm Applied Analysis, the Super Bowl in 2019 brought 310,000 visitors to Las Vegas, which resulted in an economic impact of $425 million, the newspaper reported.
Bussmann predicts that the massive number of people expected to arrive in Las Vegas for the Super Bowl will make it one of the busiest weekends on record for the city.
"It may end up being a record-breaking crowd of Super Bowl attendees to a destination," he added.
Avalanches pose potential risk north of Las Vegas
For NFL fans planning to explore other areas of Clark County, Nevada, it's important to note that avalanches are a potential risk to the north of Las Vegas.
An avalanche was reported Monday about 35 miles northwest of Las Vegas at the Lee Canyon Ski and Snowboard Resort, and four people were initially reported missing but were later found. Lee Canyon was closed due to extreme winter weather conditions Tuesday and Wednesday but was expected to reopen on Thursday.
A Winter Storm Warning is in effect for the Spring Mountains, including Lee Canyon, until 4 p.m. PST Thursday. Between 10 and 16 inches of snow was expected above 4,000 feet, along with wind gusts to 40 mph.
"Increased snowfall will create very dangerous avalanche conditions, hazardous to anyone near deep and unstable snowpack," the National Weather Service said in the Winter Storm Warning.
Practice field condition too soft for 49ers?
As for the players, the San Francisco 49ers began practicing Wednesday at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Sod was placed over the campus's turf field that will be used this week for practice sessions, the Associated Press reported. The club had some initial concerns about the field's condition being too soft, but NFL inspectors cleared it for safety.
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A general view of signage before Super Bowl LVIII Opening Night at Allegiant Stadium on February 05, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Super Bowl LVIII will be played between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers at Allegiant Stadium on February 11 in Las Vegas.
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"We're not worried about it at all," coach Kyle Shanahan told reporters at media night Monday in Las Vegas. "It is what it is. We're here, and we won't change anything."
The field has been improving every day since the team initially looked at it last week, Shanahan added.
As for the Kansas City Chiefs, the designated home team for the game, they get to practice at the Las Vegas Raiders facility in nearby Henderson.
Super Bowl LVIII kickoff happens at 3:30 p.m. local time in Las Vegas (6:30 p.m. EST) on Sunday.