Denver weather: Hot and smoky but not for long

Cooler temperatures and rainfall are headed toward Denver aboriginal this week, but Tuesday’s upwind volition stay blistery and smoky.

Smoke should gradually alteration done Wednesday arsenic debased unit processing westbound of america pushes it northward. The fume volition proceed to beryllium chiefly aloft. For details including existent conditions, sojourn https://t.co/l5cwYN46PL oregon https://t.co/BffERPP3pa. #cowx pic.twitter.com/EgvMS67Zfz

— NWS Boulder (@NWSBoulder) August 17, 2021

According to the National Weather Service successful Boulder, Denver’s time connected Tuesday volition beryllium familiar. A precocious somesthesia of 95 degrees, nether mostly sunny skies, is the main communicative downtown. Smoke volition stay mostly aloft arsenic winds alteration and stroke immoderate of it northbound aboriginal successful the evening. There’s a flimsy accidental of a thunderstorm, with a debased of 63 degrees.

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment calls Tuesday an Ozone Action Day Alert for the metro country owed to ozone concentrations reaching an unhealthy level for delicate groups.

Rain volition beryllium a bigger subordinate Wednesday and Thursday, NWS says. On Wednesday, determination is simply a 40% accidental of showers and thunderstorms betwixt noon and midnight. The time volition beryllium mostly sunny, with a precocious adjacent 94. Winds could gust astir 20 mph.

Thursday volition person the biggest menace for storms this week. The accidental of precipitation is 70%, with a precocious adjacent 84 degrees and a debased of 57 degrees.

Scattered dilatory moving storms volition bring a constricted flash flood menace today. More galore and stronger storms volition summation the menace Wednesday day and evening. Storms are expected to beryllium faster moving connected Thursday, reducing the threat, past a drying inclination volition begin. #cowx pic.twitter.com/mk9yqTzr90

— NWS Boulder (@NWSBoulder) August 17, 2021