Nevada Weather: Here’s What to Expect This Spring, Summer
Get ready for a rocky summer, as the Nevada weather for the months leading into the summer look to be pretty hard to predict. That’s according to the state’s climatologist, Steph McAfee.
McAfee, who is also an associate professor at the University of Nevada, recently published a study on Nevada’s climate outlook. The study comes from Nevada Today. In the report, she recapped what this winter was like in much of Nevada. She also discussed what weather is likely ahead.
A cold winter
As it turns out, Nevada had a pretty cold winter. “Between January and March, there were 75 days where the nighttime low dropped below freezing in Reno. The last time that happened was 1988,” McAfee says in her report. She also states that, “Temperatures over a large portion of the state were in the bottom 10% of years since the 1890s.”
The Nevada weather forecast through June
The outlook through June for the northern third of Nevada is “cooler than normal conditions,” but those are only “very slightly favored for spring. “There are roughly equal chances of above, near or below normal spring temperatures across the rest of the state,” McAfee adds.
Moreover, much of Nevada has even odds of above, near or below normal precipitation this spring. That really doesn’t tell us much. But, “in far southern Nevada, drier than normal conditions are very slightly favored,” McAfee says. It’s worth noting that La Niña has passed and El Niño conditions are predicted to be here for most of the summer. That means, according to McAfee, this summer could be hotter than normal. Find the full report for Nevada weather through June here.