Heat, Flood and Fire

By Dave Aguilera
DENVER (CBS4) – On the weather map we have a strong ridge of high pressure covering most of the country. Under this ridge temperatures are running above normal to near record levels from the Desert southwest all the way to the east coast and Colorado is right in the middle of the heat wave.
With mostly sunny skies combined with just a few mountain wave clouds temperatures will be in the 90s to low 100s across the eastern plains with 70s and 80s in the mountains and 90s acr