Denver weather: First of several hot days starts Monday around the metro area

More heat and more sunshine fill the skies around metro Denver on Monday as the first day of several 90-plus degree days start the first full week of August.

Denver residents can expect sunny skies, with a high near 95, according to the National Weather Service in Boulder. It’ll be breezy, with a south southwest wind between 8 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

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Low humidity levels will accompany the high temperatures each afternoon, creating potential fire danger conditions.

Tonight it will be partly cloudy, with a low around 64. Breezy conditions will exist, with a south southwest wind between 8 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph.

Tuesday and Wednesday will have temperatures reach into the middle 90s, but Thursday could be a possible recording-tying day as temperatures push toward 100. The record high for Aug. 7 is 99 degrees, set in 1980.

Here’s the 4-day forecast from the National Weather Service.

Tuesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 96. South wind 6 to 8 mph becoming east northeast in the afternoon.

Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 96. Southwest wind 5 to 9 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Thursday: Mostly sunny and hot, with a high near 98.

Friday: Mostly sunny and hot, with a high near 97.

(Contact Denver Gazette digital producer Jonathan Ingraham at jonathan.ingraham@denvergazette.com or on X at @Skingraham.)

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