It will be a good day in Las Vegas sky is mostly sunny and the temperature reaches the top 60 today, according to the National Weather Service.

Although higher temperatures are expected on Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and this afternoon the thermometer, which hits its peak 71, the Weather Service said. It is about 15 degrees above normal and close to the record date of 72 degrees, set in 1976.

Dry and very mild conditions will continue through Tuesday, thanks to an area of high pressure centered off the coast of southern California, forecasters said.

A low pressure system will move across the Great Basin on Wednesday, ushering in cooler air and returning temperatures closer to normal for the last half of the week, the weather service said.

At 5:56 a.m. today, the temperature at McCarran International Airport was 46 degrees. The normal low for today’s date is 37 degrees. The record low was 2 degrees, set in 1964, 1963 and 1962.

Around the valley just before 6 a.m., temperatures were 45 degrees at North Las Vegas Airport, 40 degrees at Nellis Air Force Base and 47 degrees at Henderson Executive Airport.

Temperatures in the valley were to rise today to 51 degrees by 9 a.m., to 63 degrees by noon and reach a high of 66 degrees by 3 p.m., forecasters said. The normal high for today’s date is 57 degrees and the record high was 73 degrees, set in 1976 and 1964.

Temperatures are expected to fall to 59 degrees of eighteen years, and 55 ° 21 and 52 degrees before midnight, forecasters said. Monday morning low of 47 degrees and the skyscrapers on Monday, 71 degrees, they said.