Colorado Braces for Heavy Rain and Flood Risks.

Heavy rain is expected in Denver, raising flood risks from mountain foothills across saturated cities to the plains. The National Weather Service issued a flood watch covering metro Denver and most of Colorado’s Front Range along with the southeastern high plains. Rivers and streams were running high and fast as rain adds to flows from melting mountain snowpack. The rain storms developing over the mountains Friday morning mean elevated flood risks in the canyons and foothills northwest of Denver where the Cameron Peak and East Troublesom fires ravaged vegetation, creating scars prone to erosion.