Hot, moist air that blanketed northeastern Colorado today could linger in the metro area for a few days, according to the National Weather Service.
Denver has a 50 percent chance of showers or thunderstorms Wednesday afternoon with a high near 80 degrees.
The metro region has a 30 percent chance of precipitation Thursday and Friday, as temperatures warm back to the upper 80s.
The metro area missed heavy rain from a storm system that passed over the area earlier tonight.
Since this afternoon nearly all of northeastern Colorado was under a flash flood watch, but the heavy storms materialized only over the extreme northeast counties.
Northern Yuma County is under a flash flood warning until 1:30 a.m. Nearly 3 inches of rain fell from a slow-moving thunderstorm, the National Weather Service reported.
Because of the potential for heavy afternoon thunderstorms this week, flooding will remain in a risk over parts of the high country, the National Weather Service stated.
There also is a flood advisory for the Colorado River near Kremmling until noon Wednesday. The flood stage there is 15 feet, and the river was at 13.7 feet this afternoon.
The Big Thompson River in Larimer County also is under a flood advisory, even though the river levels are expected to fall this week because of diminishing snowmelt, forecasters said.
