New record temperature

Today it reached 120 degrees here in Las Vegas

Was the Bellagio fountain opened to the public for swimming?

When I lived in Vegas, August was always the hottest month, and the highest temperature I remember was 117, and that was fairly brief. Now, it looks like Vegas might be in for two solid months of it.

There's a qualitative as well as quantitative difference between the degrees of heat. 100 can be tolerable, even comfortable, and you can even minimally exert yourself (walking and such), as long as you stay hydrated. 110 degrees is a whole another animal. You feel the force of the sun radiating down on you like a lead weight. Exertion is all but impossible. Things become hot to the touch and will burn you if you're not careful. I can't imagine how many orders of magnitude worse 120 degrees is. At that point, car and house air conditioning will start to fail. Being outside for any length of time is not just uncomfortable, but dangerous. People will die.

Thank God that climate change is just a liberal hoax.

Where was that measured?  On the tarmac of the airport like most climate stations?  On the strip in the massive heat island from all the concrete, tar and steel buildings?  I believe it, but just would be interested to know where the temperature collection is done.

I worked at PHX and LAS on the tarmac, both were very hot in the 90s.  We hit 122 in PHX and that shut down the airport since the load balancing sheets for aircraft didn't rate that high and large aircraft were sinking into the tarmac.

It was 120 at the airport but "only" reached 111 at our house (Summerlin area). According to the digital thermometer, it was 82 when I got up this morning. The overnight temperature makes a big difference. If the place never gets to cool down a bit, it gets truly miserable. We have friends in Phoenix who tell us that they experienced weeks of nighttime temps last year that never dropped below 100.