Cold front to arrive Monday night with meager snow chances through midweek
Sunday, November 23, 2025
Temperatures are approaching forty degrees in the town of Steamboat Springs and freezing at the top of the Steamboat Ski Resort late this Sunday morning with partly cloudy skies. The warm temperatures this past week will last through Monday and be followed by cooler temperatures on Tuesday and Wednesday after a mostly dry cold front passes through our area Monday night. There will be chances for minor snow accumulations with the front, and again on Wednesday, but warmer temperatures are expected for Thanksgiving and Black Friday before a promising storm could arrive around next weekend.
A storm to our south has brought five inches of snow to Wolf Creek, but only some passing clouds to our area. After high temperatures reach the upper forties this afternoon, Monday will start mostly sunny with high temperatures several degrees cooler than today, but still above our average of thirty-eight degrees. Clouds will increase in the afternoon as a storm from the Pacific Northwest approaches.
The cold front associated with the storm will be fairly dry, but the storm ingests some cold air from western Canada, bringing snow flurries Monday night and Tuesday, with only meager accumulations on the hill. A ridge of high pressure briefly builds over the West Coast through midweek, keeping northwest flow overhead that warms the mid-thirty-degree high temperatures on a mostly sunny Tuesday afternoon to around forty degrees on Wednesday, and the mid-to-upper forties on Thanksgiving and Black Friday.
A wave moving through the northwest flow will bring clouds back to our area on Wednesday, along with another chance of high-elevation snow flurries. Weather forecast models have been advertising a promising storm around next weekend for several days now, though the timing, location, and snow potential are uncertain. What is more certain is that arctic air will accompany this storm, bringing cold wintertime temperatures to our area that look to hang around for a while.
There should be no travel impacts over Rabbit Ears Pass to start the Thanksgiving holiday, but the return trip next weekend could be a different story. Enjoy the great man-made snow conditions at the top of the Steamboat Ski Area this week, which will be helped by the early-week cooldown, and I’ll have more details on the evolving wintry storm in my next regularly scheduled weather narrative on Thursday afternoon.
