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Las Vegas’ “Rainy Season,” Las Vegas Ski Resort
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Las Vegas, Nevada, is famously dry in the middle of the desert. Most people think of the desert as a place where things are dry as a bone – barely supporting life as we know it. The truth is, everything needs water. It rains here. It even snows here upon occasion (though it almost never sticks to the ground anywhere near the Strip.) In fact, it snows here every year on the mountain. That’s why we even have our very own little ski resort, The Las Vegas Ski and Snowboard Resort (owned by the same people that own the Park City Mountain Resort, incidentally.)
The Reputation of the Desert
It’s so hot in the desert! And the other, slightly less popular – It’s so cold in the desert! Right now, it’s anything but hot. The fountain in the entrance to my neighborhood looked like a chandelier made of ice! Really neat-looking… Last night it was said to be 29 degrees. Tonight it should best that temperature by at least another degree or so.
The desert is an amazing place, for it’s extremes and it’s unique beauty.
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