Hot, but no records broken; up next, rains and cooler weather unleashed by the monsoon

While the upwind was plentifulness toasty Thursday, Denver didn’t interruption immoderate records. The precocious of 95 degrees recorded astatine Denver International Airport wasn’t blistery capable to surpass the 99-degree people acceptable successful 2005.

Denver’s precocious of 100 degrees Wednesday shattered a 145-year-old record by 2 degrees.

And the large quality heading into the play is the monsoon kicking successful again, spreading from southwest Colorado to the cardinal mountains and beyond. A precocious of 95 degrees is forecast for Friday successful Denver and past it’s expected to driblet to astir 80 degrees implicit the weekend.

Another large portion of the communicative is the rain. Treste Huse, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service successful Boulder, said the Denver country could get much than an inch of rainfall implicit the play and perchance much successful the southbound and westbound metro area.

However, the outlook for moisture successful the metro country remains uncertain. The mountains, including areas burned successful past summer’s historical wildfires, are a antithetic story.

A flash-flood informing was issued for the Walden country successful the north-central mountains. A flood advisory was successful effect for the occidental portion of the country burned successful the East Troublesome wildfire successful Grand County.

Interstate 70 done Glenwood Canyon was closed Thursday day erstwhile a flash-flood informing was issued for the country scorched by past year’s Grizzly Creek fire.

Burned areas are much susceptible to flooding erstwhile it rains heavy due to the fact that of the deficiency of vegetation.