Summer sizzle sticks around Denver metro this week

AND HOW PATIENT NAVIGATORS ARE MAKING IT EASIER TO ACCESS CARE. >> WE HAD BEAUTIFUL DAY AROUND THE DENVER METRO AREA OF A MIX OF THE SUN AND CLOUDS THROUGHOUT THIS AFTERNOON. THE STORMS HAVE BEEN GOING WAY UP INTO THE HIGH COUNTRY THROUGH THE FOOTHILLS WITH MAYBE A COUPLE PUSHING ACROSS PARTS OF THE METRO AREA WILL SEE SOME GUSTY WINDS. A FEW SPRINKLES. A RUMBLE OF THUNDER. BUT THAT REALLY IS GOING TO BE ABOUT IT TODAY, DESPITE THE CLOUDS WE SAW THERE STILL IS A TOASTY DAY. ANOTHER 90 PLUS DEGREE DAY TAKING OUR TOTAL FOR SEPTEMBER TO 4 DAYS AND OUR SEASONAL TOTAL TO 59 DAYS. OUR SECOND HOTTEST SUMMER EVER RECORDED HERE IN THE DENVER AREA. OFFICIALLY 92 OUT OF DIA, EVEN WARMER OFF TO THE EASTERN PLAINS. 97 IN LAMAR OVER TO RE STERLING TO WITH 80'S AROUND STEAMBOAT EAGLE AND 90'S IN GRAND JUNCTION LOOKING AT THE CLIMATE CALENDAR, YOU'LL NOTICE TODAY'S HIGH AND LOW CERTAINLY WELL ABOVE OUR AVERAGE IS WE SHOULD BE TYPICALLY SITTING IN THE LOWER 80'S THIS TIME OF THE YEAR. AS WE LOOK ON THE SATELLITE AND RADAR, IT HAS BEEN A PRETTY ACTIVE AFTERNOON ACROSS THE HIGH COUNTRY. A GOOD ROUND OF THUNDER SHOWERS CRUISING ACROSS FAR NORTH WESTERN COLORADO. PLENTY OF LIGHTNING OUT THERE. SOME LIGHT RAIN SHOWERS FOR OUR CENTRAL MOUNTAINS AND THEN ZOOMING IN HERE TO THE METRO AREA. MAYBE JUST A COUPLE OF ISOLATED SHOWERS ON THE WESTSIDE OF TOWN. AGAIN, THESE STORMS WILL BE VERY, VERY BRIEF FOR THE FEW MORE LINGERING ACROSS PORTIONS OF WELD COUNTY SAY THEY'RE OUT OF HERE BY ABOUT 08:09PM, AND PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES TAKE OVER OVERNIGHT. NUMBERS WILL FALL INTO THE MID TO UPPER FOR 50'S FOR US HERE IN TOWN. SIMILAR SET UP ACROSS THE EASTERN PLAINS WITH 40'S PRIMARILY UP IN THE MOUNTAINS. BUT A FEW SPOTS LIKE GUNNISON IN LEADVILLE DIPPING INTO THE UPPER 30'S OVERNIGHT, LOOKING AT THE FUTURE CAST AGAIN, THE SHOWERS, THUNDERSTORMS. THEY WILL BE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN AND THEN BY ABOUT 11:00PM. EVERYTHING STARTS TO CLEAR OUT. WE WILL BE LEFT WITH A FEW CLOUDS, BUT THEY DON'T. LAST LONG BY MORNING THE SUNSHINE IS BACK. TRULY, NO MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE ACROSS THE STATE, IT'LL BE A BEAUTIFUL BEGINNING TO THE DAY AND AGAIN, LIKE CLOCKWORK. HERE WE GO. WE'RE WATCHING THE CLOUDS DRIFTING BACK INTO THE METRO AREA, FOLLOWED BY A FEW ISOLATED SHOWERS MAINLY UP IN THE MOUNTAINS. BUT IF YOU COULD POTENTIALLY CREWS IN HERE TO THE CITY BY ABOUT 4, 5 O'CLOCK ZOOMED IN VIEW OF THE FRONT RANGE, SHOWCASING MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES EARLY. PLENTY OF SUNSHINE OUT THERE RIGHT THERE AROUND THE LUNCH HOUR. IF YOU'RE OUT ON THE PATIO, LOOKING OUT TO THE WEST, YOU'LL SEE THE CLOUDS AND THE THUNDERSTORMS BUILDING WITH A FEW OF THOSE RACING ACROSS THE METRO AREA. BUT YET AGAIN, THAT'S NOT GOING TO STOP OUR TEMPERATURES FROM WARMING AND WARMING FAST WILL BE IN THE MID 60'S AROUND 08:00AM LOW 80'S AROUND THE LUNCH HOUR AND THEN WE'RE TALKING ANOTHER 90 DEGREE DAY HERE IN SEPTEMBER THE SUMMER. HE JUST WILL NOT GIVE UP. WE'LL STAY IN THE 90'S OFF TO THE EASTERN PLAINS WITH 70'S AND LOW 80'S MAINLY UP IN THE MOUNTAINS, LOOKING AT THROUGH THE FOOTHILLS ABOUT 70'S AND ESTES PARK OVER THE BLACK HAWK WITH TO UPPER 80'S IN BOULDER AND THROUGH ERIE. A QUICK CHECK ON YOUR SUPER 7 DAY FORECAST. SLIGHTLY COOLER ON WEDNESDAY WITH A BETTER CHANCE OF STORMS HERE IN DENVER. THE 90 DEGREE HEAT BACK FOR THE REST OF