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Aaliyah Cruise, 14 months, kicks back while cooling off at the Town Square Children's Play Park Wednesday afternoon. The high temperature for Wednesday broke multiple records, according to the National Weather Service in Las Vegas. » Buy this photo
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Three-year-old Frankie Guimond fills his hat with water at the Children's Play Park at Town Square Wednesday, the hottest day of the year in Las Vegas, according to the National Weather Service. Jason Bean/Las Vegas Review-Journal » Buy this photo
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
On the hottest day of the year, 10 children in swimsuits tried to dodge the spurting geysers at the Town Square Children's Play Park.
Paul Cruise, 37, towered over the soaked crowd Wednesday afternoon.
He had kicked off his flip-flops and was chasing his 14-month-old daughter, Aaliyah, who gleefully slipped around the obstacle course formed by the jets of water.
"I'm getting more tired than she is," Cruise joked. "It gets pretty wild out here."
Cruise and his daughter were among the dozens of people who battled record-breaking heat by cooling off with their families at Town Square, near Las Vegas Boulevard and Sunset Road.
The day's high temperature reached 112 degrees, breaking multiple records as the mercury peaked.
Chris Stachelski, with the National Weather Service in Las Vegas, said Wednesday's temperature marked the hottest Aug. 24 ever for Las Vegas. It reached 112 degrees at the weather service's official marking station, McCarran International Airport, surpassing the previous record for the date of 110 degrees set on Aug. 24, 1985.
The National Weather Service has been keeping temperature records since 1937.
Wednesday's high also marked the hottest day of 2011, beating out the previous high of 111 degrees on July 2.
Stachelski said it's unusual for summer temperatures to peak in late August.
The hottest temperatures in the Las Vegas Valley typically are reached between late June and mid-July, he said.
Excessive heat watch warnings have been issued by the weather service through Friday.
Today's high is expected to reach 110 degrees, which would tie the Aug. 25 high set in 1985.
But temperatures soon will begin to decrease, Stachelski said.
Temperatures from Friday through the weekend are not expected to break any records, he said.
Friday's high is expected to reach 108 degrees. Saturday's and Sunday's highs are expected to be 106 degrees.
Stachelski said the reason for the soaring temperatures so late in the summer is a high-pressure system that developed earlier over Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas.
It gave those states unbearably hot summers and has now moved over the Las Vegas Valley.
Although Wednesday's temperatures sizzled, they didn't come close to the all-time high for the Las Vegas Valley of 117 degrees, set on July 24, 1942.
Kamila Perez was at the Town Square park sitting on a shaded bench. No one needed to tell her Wednesday was a record-setting scorcher.
"Oh, yeah," she said. "It's hot out here."
Perez took her 11-month-old son, Oliver, to the park.
The boy had no problem crawling around the geysers wearing nothing but a diaper.
Perez said she and her family often take refuge from the heat at the children's park, where adults are free to act like kids.
Perez pointed to her bare feet, noting they were just getting dry.
"We're just having fun," she said.
Contact reporter Antonio Planas at aplanas@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-4638.
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Message Mr proud democrat, I've heard that Heywood Jablome never has the goods when push comes to shove. On the other hand, Jack Meoff is another story.
"Milt wrote on August 25, 2011 02:22 PM: I lived in Havasu for years and I love global warming. It happens every year in the spring and global cooling in the fall."
Anyone with your keen observation skills must have also noted the way in which the Sun rotates about the Earth every 24 hours.
"Carla wrote on August 25, 2011 01:35 PM: Dr Earl Vondermeer at the University of Bern Switzerland has absolute proof that humans are not the cause of global warming."
Flat out making $#!+ up. How could you possibly know?
"I think that a lot of this global warming hype is just making certain people a lot of money."
Yeah, but you're paranoid and flat out make $#!+ up, so who cares what you think?
"I agree...scientists are wrong all the time", said the president of the flat earth society
I lived in Havasu for years and I love global warming. It happens every year in the spring and global cooling in the fall. For all you "Chicken Littles" the sky is falling global warming crybabies, stop driving, go live in mud huts, eat all the twigs you want, stop using anything electric. Heaven forbid you become a hypocrite. Scientists are proven wrong all the time. These climate phonies were shown to fudge information and out right lie to prove their point. And their point is they need more money to prove their point. There is a lot of money to be made in going green. It is all about making money and nothing more. Lying frauds.
absolute proof....that's funny. Have you not read the studies by Dr Jack Meoff at the Institute of Heywood Jablome on solar "flairs"
Dr Earl Vondermeer at the University of Bern Switzerland has absolute proof that humans are not the cause of global warming. He will publish his findings in The Journal of Climatology in the next few months. He claims it has more to do with solar flairs, inverse oxidation dynamics, and depletion of ocean nitrogen stores.
I think that a lot of this global warming hype is just making certain people a lot of money.
Thank you, doctor. You can go with george and his "real scientists". I'll go with the consensus of the vast majority of the planet's climate scientists.
The "vast consensus" are now being educated by real scientists.
I'll go with the consensus of the vast majority of the planet's climate scientists.
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Others will go with Gilligann Beck, the Fair and Balanced phone hacking corporation Channel and Exxon-Mobil who together, with their unlimited resources, desperately latch onto any and every distraction possible to drown out the consensus of the vast majority of the planet's climate scientists, while repeating their propaganda ad nauseum via the right-wing echo chamber.