High fire danger in Colorado continues again throughout the state on Tuesday as warm temperatures, breezy winds and low humidity persist, forecasters say.
The National Weather Service in Boulder is again calling the fire conditions “critical.”
A red flag warning was issued by the weather service from noon Tuesday through 8 p.m. across high mountain valleys and plains south of Interstate 70. That warning includes areas in Jefferson, Douglas, Gilpin, Clear Creek and Park counties.
The warning is also in effect for Lincoln and Elbert counties on the Eastern Plains.
Southern Colorado is expected to be especially dry with a red flag warning in effect from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. for the entire southern Interstate 25 corridor, the weather service’s Pueblo office says.
Counties under that warning include El Paso, Pueblo, Huerfano, Las Animal, Crowley, Otero and Baca.
Nearly all of the Western Slope and southwest Colorado, including Aspen, Vail, Rifle, Grand Junction, Craig and Durango, are also under a red flag warning Tuesday.
“Humidity is expected to go below 15 percent around noon and not recover until after 8 p.m.,” the weather service’s Boulder office said in a bulletin. “This will combine with gusty winds from the south.”
Forecasters are calling for patchy fog Tuesday morning in Denver. The high in the city is expected to top out at 69 degrees.
The weather service is calling for a 10 percent chance of rain Wednesday in Denver with a high of 61 degrees.
A slight chance of showers continues into Thursday, according to forecasters.
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