MOHAVE COUNTY – Mother nature draws the curtain on 2025 with uneven precipitation totals across the tri state region. 5 of 7 area communities included within the forecast area of the Las Vegas office of the National Weather Service enjoyed above average annual rainfall.
Bullhead City and Laughlin welcomed precipitation totals more than one inch above annual averages. Bullhead City recorded 7.03 and Laughlin measured 6.51 inches in 2025, while the neighboring Colorado River communities typically log about 5.19 inches per year.
2025 rainfall totals are also above average for Needles (4.57 vs. 4.19) Las Vegas (5.08 vs. 4.05) and Wikieup (8.97 vs. 8.23).
Conversely, 2025 precipitation is below average for Lake Havasu City and Kingman (6.39 vs. 7.86).
“It varies. Usually it’s more consistent,” said Chris Outler, lead meteorologist with the Las Vegas office. “Of course, precipitation is tied pretty closely to elevation.”
Regional rainfall was inconsistent in 2025.
“In general, especially for the fall, it’s been a pretty wet fall. It was a fairly dry summer, so it’s kind of a mix for the year,” Outler said. “It was a fairly wet spring. Overall it kind of averages out to be within the realm of fairly normal, but then we have these abnormalities within the different seasons.”
Outler said his office does not have a precipitation projection for all of 2026, but expects the current warm weather trend to persist, generally favoring dry conditions into the spring and early summer.
Outler said monsoon season thunderstorm activity has been in decline.
“Especially since 2020, even maybe 2019, we’ve had really fickle monsoon seasons. There was one or two years mixed in that were kind of interesting, but as a whole they’ve been underwhelming,” Outler said. “Every monsoon has a character of its own, but the past few years have kind of been disappointing.”
