If you’re attending a parade or are volunteering in a service project today for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the weather will cooperate — near-record high temperatures are moving into Las Vegas this afternoon.

Temperatures are expected to climb to 60 degrees by the time the MLK Day parade begins at 10 a.m. at Fourth Street near Ogden in downtown Las Vegas. Today’s highs will hit the low 70s by mid afternoon, according to the National Weather Service.

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

At 5:56 a.m. today, the temperature at McCarran International Airport was 49 degrees. The normal low for today’s date is 37 degrees. The record low was 20 degrees, set in 1949.

Around the valley just before 6 a.m., temperatures were 51 degrees at North Las Vegas Airport, 41 degrees at Nellis Air Force Base and 50 degrees at Henderson Executive Airport.

Temperatures in the valley were to rise today to 54 degrees by 9 a.m., to 67 degrees by noon and reach a high of 71 degrees by 3 p.m., forecasters said. The normal high for today’s date is 57 degrees and the record high was 72 degrees, set in 1976.

Temperatures are expected to drop to 62 degrees by 6 p.m., to 56 degrees by 9 p.m. and to 52 degrees by midnight, forecasters said.

TUesday’s morning low will be 47 degrees and Tuesday’s high will climb to 67 degrees, they said.

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