Hot, smoky and mostly dry across Colorado

Highs reached the low 90s this afternoon, a 17-day streak of 90-degree-plus heat.

OF THE SUMMER.Mike: IT HAS BEEN A SIZZLER FORSURE.NOT QUITE AS HOT LATE THISAFTERNOON BECAUSE WE HAVE A FEWSCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THATPOPPED UP.80 DEGREES EXPECTED AT 7:00.75 BY 9:00 P.M.

AND 72 BY11:00 P.M.HERE'S THE GRAPH OF DAYS OF 90OR HIGHER.WE ARE IN THIRD PLACE OF DAYS OF90 IN 2020.TODAY THE TOP TEMP WAS NOT INTHE HIGH 90s, 91, WHICH ISFOUR ABOVE AVERAGE AND EIGHT SHYOF THE RECORD SET IN 2013.RIGHT NOW RAIN-COOLED SLIGHTLYIN THE LOW 80s.DEWPOINT IS UP A BIT.PRESSURE IS FALLING.THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE ATLOVELAND SKI AREA THISAFTERNOON.A BIT OF RAIN MOVING THROUGH ONTHE CAMERA LENS.IT ACTUALLY DUD MANAGE TO HELPCLEAR THE AIR EVER SO SLIGHTLY.IT VISIBILITY A BIT BETTER.AS FAR AS CONDITIONS WEGENERALLY HAVE POOR AIR QUALITYAND HIGH FIRE DANGER OVER THEWESTERN HALF OF THE STATE.RADAR SHOWS A FEW SCATTEREDTHUNDERSTORMS.I-25 CORRIDOR TO DENVER TO THENORTH, THERE ARE A FEW AROUND.FOLLOWED BY HAZY SKIES OVERNIGHTAND LOW TEMPERATURES IN THE MID60s FOR THE DENVER AREA ANDOUT WEST AROUND GRAND JUNCTION.40s AND LOW 50s IN THEMOUNTAINS.FRONT RANGE EARLY IN THE MORNING41 IN WALDEN AND KREMMLING.MOSTLY MID 40s TO LOW 50sFOR THE REST OF THE MOUNTAINSAND LOW TO MID 60s EXPECTED ONTHE PLAINS.OUR HIGHS TOMORROW WILL BE BACKINTO THE MID 90s, EVEN UPPER90S AROUND FORT COLLINS AND THEGREELEY AREA.70s AND 80s EXPECTED IN THEMOUNTAINS.STATEWIDE TOMORROW, 99 OUT WESTAT GRAND JUNCTION.MOAB AT 101.OVER THE SOUTHEAST, UPPER 90SWITH MID TO UPPER 90S NORTHEASTCOLORADO AND 70s AND 80s INTHE MOUNTAINS.A FEW GUSTY STORMS EARLYTONIGHT, BACK TO HAZY AND MILDWITH A LOW TEMPERATURE OF65 DEGREES.TOMORROW IT WILL BE HAZY AND HOTAGAIN WITH A FEW AFTERNOONSTORMS.HIGH TEMPERATURE AT 95 DEGREES.LOOKING AHEAD MORE 90s COMINGUP -- 93 ON SATURDAY WITH A FEWSTORMS.97 COMING UP ON SUNDAY.HOT AND DRY.MONDAY ISOLATED STORMS AND 95.CHECK THIS OUT, THERE IS AN ENDTO THE STREAK.NEXT THURSDAY PREDICTED HIGHTEMPERATURE ONLY AT 88 DEGREES,BUT THAT IS STILL SIX MORE DAYSIN THE 90s, CERTAINLY PUT USINTO SECOND PLACE IN THEALL-TIME STREAK OF 90s FOR ASUMMER.WE STILL HAVE A SHOT AT BEATINGTHAT MAR