Denver Weather: Hot-Hot-Hot This Week, Cooling Friday

DENVER, CO – Temps this week in Denver and the Front Range will get genuinely HOT with predictions in the triple-digits for Wednesday and Thursday, cooling back down for the weekend.

The National Weather service predicts the week will be warm and dry with highs reaching into the 100s on Wednesday and Thursday on the plains (which will be breaking a record). The record high temperature for this week was 105 degrees in 2012 and the record low was 30 degrees in 1951.

With that warm, dry weather will be fire danger increasing Thursday over high mountain valleys, foothills and portions of the plains, NWS said.

The weekend will cool off, with increased chances of showers and thunderstorms.

Here's the weekly prediction, courtesy of the National Weather Service:

Monday: Partly cloudy with zero percent chance of rain, winds from the northeast at 7 mph. High temps 86 degrees, low 58 degrees.

Tuesday: Partly cloudy with zero percent chance of rain, winds from the southeast at 6 mph. High temps 97 degrees, low 62 degrees.

Wednesday: Mostly sunny and hazy with zero percent chance of rain, winds from the northwest at 6 mph. High temps 98 degrees, low 63 degrees.

Thursday: Hot and partly cloudy with zero percent chance of rain, winds from the southwest at 11 mph. High temps 101 degrees, low 62 degrees.

Friday: Cooling and partly cloudy with zero percent chance of rain, winds from the west at 8 mph. High temps 94 degrees, low 60 degrees.

Saturday: Thunderstorms predicted, winds from the northeast at 7 mph. High temps 86 degrees, low 57 degrees.

Sunday: Partly cloudy with zero percent chance of rain, winds from the east at 7 mph. High temps 87 degrees, low 57 degrees.

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