Denver weather: Record-breaking heat eases this week

The Front Range volition chill down this week aft a fewer days of record-breaking heat.

Temperatures volition apical retired successful the precocious 80s this week — alternatively of the precocious 90s — arsenic a acold beforehand moves crossed the state, said Caitlyn Mensch, a meteorologist astatine the National Weather Service astatine Boulder.

“At slightest compared to past week, immoderate alleviation is great,” she said.

Denver’s vigor past week broke regular precocious records connected Thursday, Friday and Saturday, she said. Thursday’s precocious of 96 degrees is the hottest the metropolis has been connected Sept. 9 since 1994, erstwhile the erstwhile grounds of 94 degrees was set, she said. Friday and Saturday’s highs of 99 degrees and 97 degrees shattered regular precocious records acceptable successful 2018, she said, erstwhile some days topped retired astatine 93 degrees.

As the archetypal of a bid of acold fronts moves into the portion Sunday, temperatures are expected to ascent to conscionable 85 degrees, and there’s a accidental for day showers and thunderstorms. The upwind could crook terrible Sunday day successful immoderate areas, astir apt to the eastbound of the Interstate 25 corridor, Mensch said.

The rainy upwind volition proceed done the commencement of the week, with a accidental for rainfall and scattered storms connected some Monday and Tuesday.

Skies are expected to wide Wednesday and bring some sunshine and climbing temperatures, with highs astatine the extremity of the week peaking astatine astir 89 degrees.