If you’re planning to barbeque with family this weekend, you might want to wait until the actual Memorial Day holiday.
While temperatures will remain warm throughout the weekend, increased cloud cover and afternoon and evening thunderstorms could spoil the celebration, according to the National Weather Service.
The strongest chance for rain showers and thunderstorms is Saturday between noon and midnight, but storms are also possible tonight between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. and Sunday after noon, NWS forecasters said.
As rain falls in lower elevations, another one to three inches of snow is expected to fall above 10,000 feetc, but warm weather will limit any potential travel impacts over the mountain passes, according to a NWS hazardous weather outlook.
“Sunday and Monday will be drier with a warming trend beginning,” the outlook stated. “The rest of the week will be warm with a few afternoon and evening thunderstorms.”
Monday — Memorial Day — is expected to be warm and sunny with clear skies, forecasters said.
Denver-area residents can look forward to a high of 79 degrees and no chance of rain before holiday temperatures dip down to 51 overnight and thunderstorms return Tuesday.
Friday will be cooler than Saturday and Sunday with a high of 70 degrees, according to NWS meteorologists. Saturday’s high temperatures will hover around 76 in the metro area, and Sunday will see a high of 77 degrees.
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