Friday’s hot weather will stick around Denver through the weekend, with under sunny and sometimes hazy skies, authorities said.
Denver’s high just before 3 p.m. Friday was 96 degrees.
A public health warning for people sensitive to air quality expired at 4 p.m., but those groups were encouraged to restrict outdoor activity until 11 p.m.
The state air quality division said northwest and southern Colorado, as well as more distant Western fires, will continue to contribute to haze along the Front Range through the weekend.
“For anywhere in Colorado: if visibility is less than 5 miles in smoke in your neighborhood, smoke has reached levels that are unhealthy,” the agency warned Friday.
Each day through next Thursday has a including a 30 percent chance on Tuesday, as temperatures cool into the lower 80s for the early part of the work week, forecasters said.
“South to southwest flow aloft will bring subtropical moisture across the region this weekend, which will increase the chance for thunderstorms, especially over the higher terrain,” the Friday. “Across the plains the thunderstorm coverage will be more widely scattered. Little change in the weather pattern is expected through early next week as there will be scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms in the mountains with possibly a better chance of thunderstorms across the plains Tuesday and Wednesday.”
The average daily high for the , according to National Weather Service data.
Friday night in Denver skies are expected to become partly cloudy, with a low temperature of 65 degrees.
On Saturday the high temperature should be 94 degrees, with partly sunny skies and a 20 percent chance of thunderstorms. Expect an overnight low of 63 degrees.
It’s more of the same on Sunday, with a high temperature of 93 degrees, a 20 percent chance of thunderstorms and an overnight low of 64 degrees.
