The National Weather Service has issued a hazardous weather outlook, which will likely be upgraded to a hazardous weather warning, for weather arriving today and lasting through Sunday, meteorologist Paul Steward said.
The NWS predicts a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon today, increasing to 60 percent after 9 p.m.
Beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday, the NWS has increased the chance of precipitation to 90 percent through Sunday night, when it will drop to 70 percent.
Steward said that even more importantly, today into early Saturday Salida will be in an area seeing marginal âexcessive rainfall.â
Marginal means a 5 to 10 percent chance, but that would increase to slight, or 10 to 20 percent, chance of increased rainfall Saturday and Sunday, which Steward said could increase the risk of mudslides.
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Quandary Peak, one of the state’s 58 peaks over 14,000 feet, towers over the upper Blue River Valley earlier this year. Mountaineer Andrew Hamilton, with the aid of Andrea Sansone, is currently undertaking an attempt at hiking the 100 highest peaks in Colorado in record time.
Photo by Bill Linfield at hiking the 100 highest peaks in Colorado in record time.
The duo and a support group began the quest for Hamilton to hike the 100 highest peaks in 20 days on Sunday, June 27. As of Saturday morning, July 3, seven days into the attempt, Hamilton had hiked 24 of the 100 highest peaks.
The two are updating interested people on their progress on their Instagram page, @a2summit