It should be another rainy day Friday before it starts to warm up for the Independence Day weekend.
The entire front range corridor and adjacent foothills and plains are under a flash flood watch in effect until 10 p.m. Friday. The watch includes Denver and the metro area.
With rain and thunderstorms in the forecast for the morning, noon and night, the high will only reach about 76 degrees in the Denver area, according to the weather service in Boulder.
“It should be a nice, gentle rain,” said Nazette Rydell, meteorologist for the NWS in Boulder. “There might be small hail and wind gusts up to 60 mph in the Denver area. The best chance for severe weather is on the Eastern Plains in the Limon area.”
But some of the storms could cause flash flooding on roadways, sidewalks and streams if they move slow.
“The slower moving storms could produce very heavy rain with the potential for flash flooding,” according to the flash flood alert. “The stronger storms could produce up to 2 inches of rainfall in less than one hour and up to 4 inches of rainfall in 2 to 3 hours if a storm becomes stationary.”
During the last several days there hasn’t been much in terms of accumulation, except in pockets of the Denver area where up to 1 1/2 inches of rain fell, mostly in the form of hail, Rydell said.
The chance for rain diminishes on Saturday, when the high temperature should reach 78 degrees.
Then it should be mostly sunny on Sunday, with a high of 85 degrees.
On Independence Day on Monday, there is a slight chance for rain showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. The high with be around 89 degrees.
It will mostly sunny on Tuesday, with a high near 92 degrees. Towards the middle of next week there is a chance of afternoon rain and thunderstorms, with a high of around 90 on Wednesday and 89 on Thursday.
