Triple-digit temperatures are anticipated to scorch Denver on Monday as scorching, dry climate continues throughout Colorado, in keeping with the Nationwide Climate Service.
Temperatures within the metropolis are forecast to peak at 100 levels Monday afternoon, which might tie Denver’s document for the most popular July 28, in keeping with climate service information.
This comes after the excessive of 98 levels anticipated within the metropolis on Sunday, forecasters mentioned.
Northern Colorado and the state’s Japanese Plains will see temperatures hover within the excessive 90s on Sunday, with a number of areas hitting 100 levels, and that warmth will proceed Monday, climate service forecasters mentioned.
Monday afternoon temperatures are forecast to hit 102 levels in Fort Morgan, 103 levels in Sterling, 102 levels in Greeley and 99 levels in Fort Collins, in keeping with the climate service.
Afternoon showers and thunderstorms will return Tuesday and Wednesday, forecasters mentioned in a hazardous climate outlook.
The return of rain will deliver with it an elevated flood risk on Tuesday and a excessive flood risk on Wednesday for the Entrance Vary and Japanese Plains, in keeping with the Colorado Division of Pure Assets.
Probably the most rain is anticipated within the northeast nook of Colorado, together with elements of Weld, Morgan, Logan, Sedgwick and Phillips counties, in keeping with the division’s flood risk bulletin.
However Denver and the encircling metro space may nonetheless see between 1.5 and a pair of inches of rain per hour throughout Wednesday’s storms, in keeping with the bulletin.
That’s the equal of 19.5 to 26 inches of snow, meteorologists with the Nationwide Extreme Storms Laboratory mentioned.
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