{"id":115,"date":"2017-06-21T00:04:47","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T00:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/?p=115"},"modified":"2017-06-21T01:31:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T01:31:08","slug":"did-i-mention-it-was-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/2017\/06\/21\/did-i-mention-it-was-hot\/","title":{"rendered":"Did I mention it was hot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_116\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116\" class=\"wp-image-116 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2017\/06\/DSC_0760-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2017\/06\/DSC_0760-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2017\/06\/DSC_0760-768x538.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2017\/06\/DSC_0760-1024x717.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2017\/06\/DSC_0760.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-116\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Scientific Aviation Mooney descending into the North Las Vegas Airport with Angel Peak in the background.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I have fond memories of Angel Peak (8780 ft) from the first LVOS campaign in 2013 when TOPAZ was deployed there and we stayed only 5 miles away at the Mt. Charleston Resort. We almost never had to go down into the valley except to buy groceries or fly in and out of Las Vegas.\u00a0 As I write this, the official NWS temperature here at the North Las Vegas Airport (2188 ft) where TOPAZ is deployed\u00a0for <em>FAST<\/em>-LVOS is 115\u00b0F and the unofficial temperature inside the TOPAZ portable &#8220;facility&#8221; is 126\u00b0F. The current readings at the Spring Mountain Youth Camp (8380 ft) next to Angel Peak, and the Kyle Canyon station (7045 ft) near the Mt. Charleston Resort, are 84 and 92\u00b0F, respectively. The temperature hit 117\u00b0F at McCarran International Airport, which ties (for the 3rd time since they started keeping tabs in 1942) the record high for Las Vegas. This is the earliest date that 117\u00b0F has ever been reached, however, and it&#8217;s only the first day of summer! Ironically, the last time the temperature hit 117\u00b0F in Las Vegas was on June 30, 2013 at the very end of the first LVOS campaign. What are the odds?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-119 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2017\/06\/NLVA-NWS-20170620-300x153.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"896\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2017\/06\/NLVA-NWS-20170620-300x153.png 300w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2017\/06\/NLVA-NWS-20170620-768x393.png 768w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2017\/06\/NLVA-NWS-20170620-1024x523.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 896px) 100vw, 896px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have fond memories of Angel Peak (8780 ft) from the first LVOS campaign in 2013 when TOPAZ was deployed there and we stayed only 5 miles away at the Mt. Charleston Resort. We almost never had to go down into the valley except to buy groceries or fly in and out of Las Vegas.\u00a0&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/2017\/06\/21\/did-i-mention-it-was-hot\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2017\/06\/NLVA-NWS-20170620.png","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-30 11:52:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lvos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}