The Denver-metro area has a 10 percent chance of afternoon thunderstorms again Tuesday, but it looks like another hot, dry week for the metro area with sunshine and daily high temperatures in the mid- to upper 90s, forecasters say.
Tuesday’s could be as cool as it gets in the city for a week, according to the National Weather Service office in Denver. The drought-parched Eastern Plains have a slight of rain, but “precipitation amounts will generally be light,” forecasters said Monday.
Western Colorado this week, with highs in the low 80s in Steamboat Springs and Durango, and in the 70s in Aspen, according to the weather service.
All of Colorado remains in a , according to the federal government’s U.S. Drought Monitor.
After the hottest July on record in Denver, when temperatures were 4.7 degrees hotter than usual, August so far is 2.7 degrees above average.
July had 27 days above 90 degrees; the first six days of August , including Monday, when temperatures topped out at 98 degrees, 2 degrees short of the record set in 1980. The normal high is 89 degrees.
The at Colorado State University expects a rather indefinite 33.3 percent to 50 percent chance of above-average temperatures across the center of the state, and a 33.3 to 40 percent chance of above-average precipitation across the western two-thirds of Colorado.
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