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.
