What Shivers in Vegas, Freezes in Vegas

It's going to be cold on The Strip tonight:

It’s going to be a chilly start to 2011: 28 degrees in Las Vegas at midnight, if the National Weather Service’s prediction is correct.

Las Vegas set a record today with the coldest high temperature ever recorded in Las Vegas on New Year’s Eve: just 38 degrees. The temperature was well below the old record for the coldest high, 45 degrees set in 1975, the National Weather Service said.

The last time the high temperature reached only the 30s was during a snowstorm on Dec. 17, 2008, when the high was 39 degrees.

Overnight temperatures aren’t expected to reach record lows, but “we’re definitely going to be looking at very cold temperatures for an extended period,” weather service meteorologist Larry Jensen said.

Two years ago we went to Vegas on Dec. 28th and when we got there it was 31 degrees. It did warm up to the low 50's, but that was the coldest I'd ever been in a town where I'd also enjoyed a high of 114 one summer day.