During the day, the sun heats the earth’s surface, and heat is released back into the atmosphere at night via radiational cooling. According to the National Weather Service, traditional cooling is “the cooling of the Earth’s surface.

Saturday daytime highs will stay in the upper 50s with mostly cloudy skies. There's a chance for scattered rain showers in the Front Range through early afternoon.

It has been almost a month since Denver weather and parts of the state have seen rain or snow. The needed moisture will continue Saturday morning and will stick around through late Sunday before it dries out again.