Expect more record-breaking heat in Las Vegas today

It’s going to be a day of record-breaking heat. Again.

Today’s forecast is slightly cooler than Friday’s, with a forecast high of 96. The daily record is 92, set in 2004.

Harry Reid international Airport recorded 97 degrees on Friday, three degrees shy of the century mark. It was the third consecutive day of record-breaking heat. The airport did shatter the daytime high record of 90, set in 2004.

Sunday’s forecast high is 94. The daily record is 91, set in 2004. The extreme heat warning for Southern Nevada, which began Wednesday morning, expires at 8 p.m. Sunday.

The airport reached 95 degrees Thursday, breaking the record of 90 set in 2017. On Wednesday, the airport saw 94, surpassing the previous all-time March high of 93 that had been set March 26, 2022.

Morgan Stessman of the National Weather Service said more daily records could be broken next week as the historic heat wave continues to punish the West. Highs will stay in the mid-to-upper 90s through Wednesday, Stessman said, with a small cooldown coming for Thursday and Friday. But the temperature is expected to stay at 90 or above for at least the next week.

Before this year, the most 90-degree days Las Vegas saw in March was three, which happened in 2004. Stessman said the median temperature for this month, through the 19th, is 68.4 degrees.

Southern Nevada appears to be on track to have its warmest March ever. “We’re heading in that direction,” Stessman said. The warmest March happened in 2015 (66.7 median degrees). The valley rarely sees 90 degrees in March. The average daytime high for late March is in the low 70s.

The March heat in Las Vegas is a continuation of a theme, as the month started out with record-breaking heat. And last month was the second-warmest February in the valley since record-keeping began in 1937. January 2026 was the fifth-warmest January on record.