Surprising rain in Las Vegas: 'Unusual weather we're having, aint it?'

The title of this post is a famous quote from the cowardly lion in the 1939 movie the Wizard of Oz. Readers may remember this film was one of the very first to show "climate disruption" manifesting itself as extreme weather, as regular garden-variety tornadoes in Kansas turned ugly and started transporting people into alternate universes.

I thought that quote was rather appropriate for the kind of weather I'm experiencing in Las Vegas today, on the morning after the ICCC9 conference. This is the view from my hotel room window:
This view is looking southeast at the West end of the McCarran International Airport (KLAS). You can see puddles on the runway and on some of the surrounding land plus the rain shafts coming from the clouds. For those of you that prefer data over pictures, here's some:
Of particular interest is the graph in the upper right. Note that it registers .08 inches of precipitation this morning but also smaller amounts of precipitation going all the way back to Tuesday. We've had sort of a monsoon season this week.

Before I went to the ICCC9 conference, a number of people wrote to me expressing concern that climate skeptics headed to Las Vegas in the middle of July were risking being embarrassed by a heat wave and potentially new high temperature records being set.

That's why I wrote this post about records and possibilities that might occur during the conference.

But instead, rather than heat waves we got cooler weather as a result of rain and clouds.

In case you're wondering whether or not the rainfall today set a new record I've done that work for you and look it up at the local National Weather Service office. The table below shows that for July 10 we fall significantly short so far. Of course the day is not over.
While not unprecedented, it is a rather unusual weather event to have rain in July in Las Vegas. It's almost as if all those climate skeptics coming to Las Vegas had some sort of a symbiotic Gore effect.

I have some other observations to depose later but for now I really need some coffee.