Usually for all of February, Las Vegas sees about .8 inches of precipitation, one NWS meteorologist at the Las Vegas office told Newsweek. There's a good chance the ongoing storm could produce that much rain just on Thursday.

Thursday was a rare rainy day in Las Vegas—the first after 214 dry days. "WE MEASURED," the National Weather Service's Las Vegas office declared in a post on X Thursday morning. The NWS said it recorded 0.