Showers possible later today and early next week
Thursday, October 18, 2018
A piece of the storm from last weekend is approaching the Steamboat Springs region this Thursday afternoon, and we will have a chance of showers later today as most of the storm moves east of our area by midnight. A pleasant weekend will follow before the chance for showers return for the start of the upcoming work week.
The cold air I talked about in last Sunday’s blog looks to stay east of our area, and even the Front Range, as it plunges into the Midwest and eventually the Northeast this weekend. A piece of the current storm that will bring the chance of showers to our area tonight will be left behind and is forecast to move westward back to the Desert Southwest before revisiting our area late in the weekend or early in the upcoming work week.
We should have plenty of sun for Friday and most of the weekend with high temperatures near our average of 57F.
Meanwhile, a large storm develops in the Gulf of Alaska this weekend, and incoming Pacific energy on the south side of this storm will eventually nudge the remaining piece of the storm in the Desert Southwest back towards our area later Sunday or Monday. We should see increasing clouds by late in the weekend, with light showers possible from Monday through Wednesday. While the system will be warm, the increased cloud cover may keep temperatures a bit below average.
Sunnier skies and warmer temperatures should return for the end of the work week and possibly heading into the following weekend as some weather models forecast a shallow ridge of high pressure temporarily building over the west ahead of the fairly stationary Gulf of Alaska storm.
