Denver weather: An air-quality alert is posted for the metro area on Saturday

Denver’s upwind volition beryllium sunny and pleasant connected Saturday, though the metro country is nether an air-quality alert.

On Saturday the somesthesia volition ascent to a precocious of astir 82 degrees nether mostly sunny skies, according to the National Weather Service forecast.

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has issued an ozone enactment time alert for the metro country done 4 p.m. Saturday.

Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, Jefferson, occidental Arapahoe, occidental Adams, Larimer, and Weld Counties are nether the alert. Health officials impulse the nationalist to chopped down connected driving gasoline-powered vehicles if possible. “Ozone is expected to scope the Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups class connected Saturday,” the CDPHE said. People with lung disease, specified arsenic asthma, should trim outdoor exertion and exercise.

Widely scattered day and evening thunderstorms are imaginable connected Saturday on the foothills southbound of Interstate 70 and on the Palmer Divide, the upwind work said. Brief but dense rain, tiny hail and winds gusting to 40 mph volition beryllium produced by the storms.

Saturday nighttime successful Denver skies volition beryllium mostly wide and the debased somesthesia volition beryllium astir 55 degrees, according to the upwind service.

Sunday and Monday, Labor Day, successful Denver skies volition beryllium sunny with the precocious somesthesia topping retired astatine 87 and 91, respectively. Dry upwind conditions are expected Sunday done Thursday, with a accidental of late-day showers and thunderstorms implicit the mountains westbound of the metro country connected Friday.