Lake Mead water levels have increased slightly since the weekend storm in Nevada.
Lake Mead's water levels have increased slightly after two days of record-breaking rainfall fell in Las Vegas, Nevada, last weekend.Lake Mead in Nevada and Arizona and Lake Powell in Utah and Arizona have suffered from drought for years, and excessive water usage is slowly depleting the Colorado River faster than natural weather patterns can fill it.
'Oops, we did it again! Two days in a row of record breaking rainfall in #Vegas,' the National Weather Service office in Las Vegas posted on X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday. 'Yesterday mornings rainfall set a new record the calendar date of March 16th, shattering the old record of 0.20' set in 2003.'Las Vegas' average monthly rainfall for March is .42 inches, and the region has already received .71 inches of rain this month, NWS meteorologist Barry Pierce told Newsweek.
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