The warm weather pattern settling in this week may bring afternoon and evening thunderstorms, and the National Weather Service on Tuesday issued flash flood warnings for mountain foothills areas along Colorado’s northern Front Range northwest of metro Denver where severe wildfires have ravaged vegetation.
The high temperature in Denver will be 73 degrees under partly cloudy skies through 5 p.m., weather service forecasters said. At night, the temperature will decrease to 48 degrees, with possible thunderstorms, before increasing to 79 degrees on Wednesday, forecasters said.
In the mountains, mostly cloudy skies with wind gusting at speeds up to 30 miles per hour and thunderstorms here and there are expected.
Temperatures on the eastern high plains will exceed 70 degrees, weather service forecasters said.
The flash flooding risk warning applies to the Cameron Peak and East Troublesome burn scars west of Fort Collins on Tuesday afternoon and on Thursday evening when rain is expected. Sudden intense rainfall could rigger flooding along streams and rivers, weather service meteorologists said.
