Storms will continue across Colorado on Wednesday, threatening the state with heavy rain, strong winds and waves of hail, according to the National Weather Service.

“Scattered thunderstorms will move from the mountains in the afternoon onto the plains in the late afternoon and evening,” NWS forecasters said in a hazardous weather outlook. “While storms will be less numerous and less intense than the last several days, there is still potential for localized heavy rain, wind gusts up to 60 mph and small hail.”

According to forecasters, the metro area and Eastern Plains could see hail up to 1 1/2 inches in diameter — about the size of a ping pong ball.

Thunderstorms are expected to hit the Denver area between 1 p.m. and 9 p.m. and will be strongest on the Eastern Plains between 3 p.m. and 10 p.m., according to NWS forecasters.

Denver will see temperature highs of 87 degrees Wednesday before dropping into the high 50s overnight, forecasters said.

Thunderstorms and 80-degree weather will continue in the Denver area Thursday before the storms dry up and daily temperature highs rise back into the 90s for the rest of the week, forecasters said.

The potential for storms — including large hail, flooding risks and strong winds — will increase again beginning Sunday, forecasters stated in the hazardous weather outlook.

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The Colorado Rapids smashed and grabbed their way to a Leagues Cup quarterfinals berth.

Darren Yapi scored in the final minute of regulation to send Colorado to a 2-1 win over Liga MX side Deportivo Toluca late Tuesday night at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park.

But this was a game the Rapids very easily could have lost.

The Diablos rattled off 21 shots (six on goal) to the Rapids’ four (two on goal). Toluca dominated the possession to the tune of 64% to 36%.

And if the Rapids scoring on their only shots on goal wasn’t improbable enough, Yapi had to tap in the winner in the 90+6th minute.

In the 45th minute, the Rapids got on the board when midfielder Cole Bassett sent a diagonal longball from midfield to the left side of the six-yard box to Sam Vines. Vines, who otherwise did not have a great first half, laid a perfect pass across goal on his first touch to set up Rafael Navarro for a tap-in.

Then in the 83rd minute, Brazilian forward Paulinho finally tied the match up with a backheel while spinning to get the ball past Zack Steffen, who otherwise had another great Leagues Cup match with five saves.

The Rapids thought they had gone ahead in the 90+1st minute when Connor Ronan put in a ball to Djordje Mihailovic, who spiked a header off the ground and up into the top corner of the goal, but a long VAR review found him offside.

The Rapids homegrown played super sub just five minutes later. A bad touch off of a Toluca defender left the ball right on the goal line for Yapi to slide tackle a winner into the net for just his second professional goal.

Yapi was subbed on for Navarro in the 86th minute, which seemed questionable at the time given the score was tied and penalties loomed. In the end, it turned out to be a genius move from Rapids coach Chris Armas.

The Rapids will play the winner of Club América and St. Louis CITY later this week for a spot in the Leagues Cup semifinals.

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Originally Published: August 13, 2024 at 10:42 p.m.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) – A new Colorado law was passed that now requires pharmacies in the state to offer prescription drug labels in braille, audio devices, or other requested formats.

Many who are visually impaired have had to rely on other people or special phone apps to read their medication. A braille teacher at the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind said that she often worries she could be given the wrong medication, as someone who is blind herself.

Braille Instructor Marty Rahn said,” I have a friend who overdosed actually a couple of years ago and it wasn’t even her fault. They gave her the wrong medication and they gave her the wrong milligram dosage, even when she thought the tablets felt different. She called and said to the pharmacist ‘Do I have the right meds’ and they were like ‘Yeah we just changed the tablets’ which happens all the time. But as a result of that, she’s dealing with all kinds of medical issues so it really is a very serious thing.”

Previously, to get these accommodations some pharmacies had to refer to larger regional stores for people to get the proper equipment.

“One store in every kind of geographic region would refer patients that have this special equipment. Just kinda get it on demand, if they had somebody who requested this they go out and get it. Some pharmacies have gone decades without anyone ever requesting it,” said Pharmacist, Ky Davis, with Harris Pharmacy.

State Representative Mary Young was a sponsor of this bill and said she wanted to ensure those with a visual disability could always have the resources they need.

“This is 30 years after the Americans with Disabilities Act where we committed to people that we would provide them access, so they could live independently in communities. For me, this was a critical issue that needed to be addressed,” said Rep. Young.

For smaller pharmacies that may not have the budget to make all these formats of labels, they will be given a grant paid over 2 years to fund these requests. For other formats a pharmacy may not have, they will be given 28 days to make that accommodation.

The law will officially take effect in 2025.

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