Benefit from the cooler climate whereas it lasts. Temperatures within the higher 90s are anticipated to return alongside the I-25 hall and on the Plains on Sunday and thru a lot of subsequent week, with triple-digit highs doable in some places on Monday, in line with a weather forecast issued on Saturday morning by the National Weather Service.
A persistent high-pressure system hovering over the nation’s southwest will push temperatures up in Colorado, although the state shall be nowhere close to affected by the intense warmth that Arizona and Nevada endured.
“A harmful, long-lived and record-breaking warmth wave will proceed this weekend within the Southwest, particularly within the low desert areas, with triple-digit excessive temperatures additionally extending north into the Central Nice Basin,” the Nationwide Climate Service mentioned.
Usually, the monsoon moisture that rises off the Gulf of Mexico gives reduction from Colorado’s excessive temperatures right now of 12 months. However that sample is caught within the 4 Corners area, the place it might convey heavy rain and even flash flooding this weekend.
For Saturday, temperatures in Denver ought to hit round 90 levels, with a low of 63 levels. By Sunday, the excessive will rise to 96 levels after which attain 99 levels in Denver on Monday, in line with the forecast.
Separate showers and thunderstorms are doable within the mountains and foothills Saturday afternoon and night, however heavy rain will not be anticipated. An identical sample ought to proceed into subsequent week.
“Whereas solely gentle rain is predicted, gusty outflow winds are doable with this exercise,” the forecast mentioned.
