Cooler weekend temperatures with precipitation chances later today and Friday night
Thursday, November 6, 2025
After a cloudy morning in Steamboat Springs that produced a quick noon shower, some partial clearing early this Thursday afternoon should give way to some more showers later today. Another brief period of mostly sunny skies to start Friday will be followed by increasing afternoon clouds and late afternoon and overnight precipitation chances. Increasingly sunny but cool weather is advertised for the weekend, followed by another warm and dry workweek.
An ejected piece of energy from a storm bringing high winds and precipitation to the Pacific Northwest and northern California was responsible for the noon shower, with another piece bringing more precipitation chances later this afternoon and tonight. These showers produced some brief low-elevation graupel and a dusting of snow above 9,000′, according to Steamboat’s upper mountain powdercam and mid-mountain powdercam.
While Friday will start mostly sunny, the Pacific Northwest storm is forecast to travel through Idaho early in the day and across the northern Rockies Friday night. Increasing clouds by noon on Friday will give way to another round of showers by Friday afternoon and evening as the southern end of the storm passes through our area, with some snowflakes possible in town. High temperatures for the day will be within a few degrees of our average of forty-seven degrees, quite the cooldown from the mid-to-upper sixties we enjoyed earlier this week.
There could be several inches of snow at high elevations by Saturday morning, on a cool day, with high temperatures only in the low forties. An additional wave of dry and cold air spinning around a vortex over Hudson Bay will be ingested by the trailing edge of the storm Saturday night, bringing low temperatures in the mid-teens for Sunday morning, below our average of nineteen degrees, and good for snowmaking operations at the Steamboat Ski Resort.
Temperatures will warm back to around average on a mostly sunny Sunday as a ridge of high pressure begins to build over the West ahead of a strong storm forecast to develop over the eastern Pacific. Even warmer temperatures are forecast to start the workweek, with little hope for precipitation until the end of the workweek or the following weekend.
Enjoy the improving weather for the weekend, and I’ll have more details on the eastern Pacific storm and the end-of-week precipitation chances in my next regularly scheduled weather narrative on Sunday afternoon.
Gorgeous weather to continue through midweek with cold front later Thursday
Sunday, November 2, 2025
A spectacular fall day is over Steamboat Springs this Sunday, with sunny skies and temperatures already at sixty degrees as we approach noon. Warm and mostly sunny weather will continue through midweek before a weakening cold front approaches later Thursday.
A ridge of high pressure extending northward from the Desert Southwest has diverted the jet stream to be over the northern Rockies, keeping the storm track and cold air bottled up over Canada. Our average high temperature of fifty degrees will be exceeded by ten to fifteen degrees through Wednesday, with mostly sunny skies except for some clouds Monday morning as a weak disturbance from southern California moves overhead.
Meanwhile, a storm approaching the Aleutian Islands is forecast to intensify as it crosses the Gulf of Alaska and crosses the Pacific Northwest coast on Wednesday. The ridge of high pressure that was responsible for this stunning fall weather will be forced eastward as a cold front associated with the storm moves through our area sometime on Thursday.
The front, which will turn winds to be from the northwest, has trended weaker in the weather forecast models. Still, as of today, it will be strong enough to cool high temperatures back to around average on Thursday, or perhaps below, with rain showers possible in town and accumulating snow showers likely at higher elevations.
Be sure to enjoy the spectacular weather through midweek. I’ll have the latest details on the Thursday cold front and if the unsettled weather in cool northwest flow lingers into next weekend in my next regularly scheduled weather narrative on Thursday afternoon.
