Many people confuse weather and climate but they are different. Weather is the conditions of the atmosphere over a short period of time, and climate is how the atmosphere is over long periods of time.
Weather is how the atmosphere is behaving and its effects upon life and human activities. Weather can change from minute-to-minute. Most people think of weather in terms of temperature, humidity, precipitation, cloudiness, brightness, visibility, wind, and atmospheric pressure. Climate is the description of the long-term pattern of weather in a place. Climate can mean the average weather for a particular region and time period taken over 30 years. Climate is the average of weather over time.
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This is also the time of peak automobile traffic and pollutants accumulate due to the light winds. Dust or sand storms occur occasionally, particularly in the south during the spring, when storms move through the region more frequently than at other seasons. The state has a generous supply of sunshine, the average percentage of possible sunshine being abut 65 to 75 at northern and central locations and above 80 percent in the south.
The low humidity and abundant sunshine produce rapid evaporation. Annual amounts in the southern portion of the state, as measured in evaporation pans, average over inches.
In northern and central sections, evaporation amounts average roughly half as much. Because of the generally arid climate only about six percent of the , square miles of land is under cultivation. Irrigation is maintained in the cultivated areas by impounding the water from melting snow. Well water is also used to irrigate a large number of acres.
In the vicinity of Lovelock, water is impounded in the Rye Patch Reservoir. A small additional area in pastures and wild hay is watered by flooding when snows melt in the spring. A light snowfall in winter and spring creates a shortage of water for irrigation. Long dry spells in summer, which occur rather frequently, result in injury to ranges and pastures, but have little effect on irrigated crops which depend almost entirely on stored water. Livestock raising is one of the principal activities of the state.
Alfalfa for hay and for seed is by far the most important agricultural crop, although small quantities of grains, fruits, vegetables, and cotton are grown. Mining is the other basic industry in Nevada.
The state ranks high in the amount and value of minerals it produces each year, principally manganese, tungsten, mercury, copper, silver, gold, lead, and zinc. Many tourists come to Nevada each year to vacation at Lake Tahoe, the "sky-high" lake that straddles the Nevada-California line in the rugged Sierras, to visit the numerous ghost towns, to fish or boat in the lakes such as Lake Mead, Pyramid Lake and Walker Lake, or to enjoy the cool mountain streams of the state.
The spectacular manmade landmark of the Far West, Hoover Dam, is located on the state line between Nevada and Arizona. Las Vegas and Reno are also popular spots with their many hotels, casinos, and golf courses. Those are monthly averages. In contrast, winter high temperatures in northeast Nevada are barely above freezing and reach only to the mids. Nightime lows in much of the state are, on average, below freezing from October through April. Climate in Las Vegas Link. History: Las Vegas weather by month.
Click on each chart for more information. The daily average high red line and low blue line temperature, with 25th to 75th and 10th to 90th percentile bands. The thin dotted lines are the corresponding average perceived temperatures. The average hourly temperature, color coded into bands. The shaded overlays indicate night and civil twilight.
Compare Las Vegas to another city:. The percentage of time spent in each cloud cover band, categorized by the percentage of the sky covered by clouds. The percentage of days in which various types of precipitation are observed, excluding trace quantities: rain alone, snow alone, and mixed both rain and snow fell in the same day.
The average rainfall solid line accumulated over the course of a sliding day period centered on the day in question, with 25th to 75th and 10th to 90th percentile bands. The thin dotted line is the corresponding average snowfall. The number of hours during which the Sun is visible black line. From bottom most yellow to top most gray , the color bands indicate: full daylight, twilight civil, nautical, and astronomical , and full night.
The solar day over the course of the year From bottom to top, the black lines are the previous solar midnight, sunrise, solar noon, sunset, and the next solar midnight. The day, twilights civil, nautical, and astronomical , and night are indicated by the color bands from yellow to gray. The transitions to and from daylight saving time are indicated by the 'DST' labels.
The time in which the moon is above the horizon light blue area , with new moons dark gray lines and full moons blue lines indicated. The percentage of time spent at various humidity comfort levels, categorized by dew point. The average of mean hourly wind speeds dark gray line , with 25th to 75th and 10th to 90th percentile bands. Wind Direction in Las Vegas Link.
The percentage of hours in which the mean wind direction is from each of the four cardinal wind directions, excluding hours in which the mean wind speed is less than 1. The lightly tinted areas at the boundaries are the percentage of hours spent in the implied intermediate directions northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest.
The tourism score filled area , and its constituents: the temperature score red line , the cloud cover score blue line , and the precipitation score green line. The percentage of time spent in various temperature bands. The black line is the percentage chance that a given day is within the growing season.
The average growing degree days accumulated over the course of the year, with 25th to 75th and 10th to 90th percentile bands.
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