The recent flooding in Las Vegas has been made worse because of the region’s extreme drought. Steel Brooks/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP. Summer is Las Vegas’ normal monsoon season — but ...

Related: Historic floods in Las Vegas Valley — PHOTOS. Strong wind, power outages. The weather service measured 0.32 inches Thursday at the airport, where the agency takes official measurements.

Las Vegas Valley’s last major monsoon season, which recorded more than 3 inches of rainfall in 2012, took the lives of two people, according to the Clark County Regional Flood Control District.

But Las Vegas has been even drier than usual, leaving the parched soil to act like concrete during a night of heavy rainfall. Water rushes through a parking garage during flash flooding on the Las ...

Las Vegas hit with major flooding, again . Las Vegas slammed with another major flash flood as vehicles thread through water 00:48. The most "restless" summer monsoon season in a decade became ...

Parts of Las Vegas Strip Flood After Heavy Rain. At least one driver was rescued from a car, and others abandoned their vehicles, after flash flooding from fast-moving thunderstorms.

Water floods into the street near a Circle K gas station at 5485 E. Tropicana Ave. on Friday, Sept. 1, 2023, in Las Vegas. (Madeline Carter/Las Vegas Review-Journal) ...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – Flooding occurred in some areas across the Las Vegas valley Thursday night following the first signs of measurable rain in months. A road closure along a ramp from I-15 ...

After all, Las Vegas averages less than 5 inches of rainfall annually. The Nevada Division of Insurance earlier this month urged residents to consider purchasing flood insurance as changing ...

Intense storms deluged Las Vegas just two weeks ago on 29th July. Those extreme conditions brought approximately an inch of rain, 55mph winds, and caused power outages in the city.

The flooding in Las Vegas is yet another episode of flooding that plagued the U.S. this week. As climate change continues, ...

Las Vegas is not the only area in the United States that has been affected by extreme weather this week, with Kentucky being hit by massive flooding on Thursday.