After a week of scattered rain, hail, mudslides and a report of a funnel cloud on the Front Range, weather should calm down Friday in the metro area.
The city still has a 10 percent chance of showers after 3 p.m. The city could reach 73 degrees, which is the , after topping out at 66 degrees Thursday. Early next week, highs could climb , according to the forecast.
Since Monday morning, Denver had received . In the entire month of August, the city received , the fifth warmest and fourth driest August on record.
Thursday afternoon, parts of Douglas and Elbert counties were under a tornado warning, and the area of El Paso County burned by the 18,247-acre Waldo Canyon fire in July was under a flash-flood warning as thunderstorms pounded parts of the Front Range for the second day in a row.
Spotters for the National Weather Service reported a funnel cloud near Larkspur at about 1:30 p.m Thursday, but there were no reports of a tornado touching down or resulting damage.
Heavy rains caused mudslides Thursday in the area burned by the 87,284-acre High Park fire in June, forcing temporary road closures to clear the debris on Colorado 14 and in Buckhorn Canyon.
