Storms today and midweek to be accompanied by cold temperatures
Sunday, November 30, 2025
Snow showers have already started late this Sunday morning at the top of the Steamboat Ski Resort, where the temperature has warmed from the ten-degree high on a sunny Saturday to the current seventeen degrees. The storm today and another midweek will bring accumulating snowfall and cold to all elevations, with additional active weather advertised for next weekend.
The Friday storm flipped the weather switch to winter, bringing four inches of snow to the Steamboat Ski Resort, an inch to town, and cold temperatures that reached a high of only ten degrees on Saturday near the top and thirty-one degrees at the Bob Adams airport. A storm moving through the Great Basin will bring more snow at all elevations from this afternoon into Sunday night, followed by the coldest temperatures of the season so far.
The storm is undergoing a mild split, with forecast snowfall amounts decreasing for our area as the southern end of the split pulls energy and moisture southward to central and southern Colorado. We could see as much as 3-6” at mid-mountain by the Monday morning ski report, with most of that falling through this afternoon and early evening, and up to a couple of inches in town.
Even colder temperatures will follow for Monday, starting around zero and not rising above the single digits near the top of the hill and only the upper twenties in town, below our average of thirty-four degrees, perhaps tempered by some afternoon sun.
Energy ejecting out of a storm currently over the Aleutian Islands is forecast to travel through a ridge of high pressure over the eastern Pacific that extends into the Gulf of Alaska, crossing the Vancouver coast Monday night. This storm will track through the Great Basin on Tuesday and ingest cold air from western Canada, similar to the current storm, but undergo a stronger split further to the west, limiting snow accumulations for our area. Snow showers should begin by Tuesday afternoon and continue through the day on Wednesday, with another 2-5” possible at mid-mountain by Wednesday night and several inches in town.
A short break in the weather may allow for some sun on a still-cool Thursday before the Aleutian storm ingests some subtropical and possibly tropical moisture through the workweek as it slowly moves eastward, eventually suppressing the eastern Pacific ridge of high pressure southward. Sustained favorable and moist northwest flow is forecast to follow for the weekend, likely bringing a couple of rounds of additional, and possibly significant, snowfall to our area.
It’s incredible to see how much snow the Steamboat Ski Resort has made these last couple of days once the cold finally arrived, thanks to the hard work of the snowmaking crew and a state-of-the-art snowmaking system. Enjoy the likely imminent terrain openings as the cold and snow continue, and I’ll have more details on the encouraging weather pattern for next weekend in my next regularly scheduled weather narrative on Thursday afternoon.
