Time: 845 AM Fri September 18, 2020 Forecaster: Brad Simmons

Heavy Precipitation Outlook
Flash Flood Prediction Program

MORE HEAT AND HAZE WITH DRY CONDITIONS
-Temperatures will continue to run about 8-10 degrees above normal today with highs topping out in the mid to possibly upper 80's over the plains with 70's in the Front Range foothills. Normal high for Denver today is 78 degrees. Skies will be mostly sunny but will continue to be obscured by smoke/haze due to numerous wildfires over the western US.
-Overnight conditions remain dry area wide with temperatures bottoming out in the mid 50's to around 60 over the plains.
STORM RAINFALL POTENTIAL AND DURATION: No precipitation expected today or tonight. Supplemental QPF is available at https://qpf.udfcd.org

A LOOK AHEAD: A weak trough of low pressure will be on the approach Saturday resulting in a few isolated rain showers and weak thunderstorms over the mountains in the afternoon. A very isolated rain shower or weak thunderstorm may move into the District in the late afternoon and evening but most areas will remain dry and any precipitation will be light. Temperatures Saturday will be a degree or two warmer than today.

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