Although Monday is to be relatively quiet, July 4th and Wednesday will bring risks of hail and tornadoes to parts of eastern Colorado, and may include the Denver and Colorado Springs metro areas.

Here are the outlook threat levels for Tuesday:

And, Wednesday:

Again, thunderstorms become much more likely the next two days, including hail, tornado, damaging wind, and isolated flooding threats. For threats across the country:

Back here at home, here's an hourly timeline to help give you some guidance on planning your BBQs.

That timeline is for Denver, we know there's a lot going on across the state so here's an animation through noon Thursday of the locations and timings of storms.

This post is more about the heads-up forecast for tomorrow, we will have more specific information in tomorrow morning's post.

As far as temperatures, we will be cooling down A LOT by Wednesday. Across the region here are some daily high temperatures for the week.

We hope you have a wonderful and safe July 4th! If you'd like to be getting the "heads up, hey there is a forecast to be aware of" style emails from us, you can sign up for those for free by clicking here.