Steamboat Springs area short term weather forecast from Sunday night

Sunday, April 3, 2016

After another spring day Monday, with even some afternoon and evening showers possible later in the day, winter returns on Tuesday as a quick-moving storm from the Pacific Northwest brings snow to the mountain and snow showers to the valleys with breezy to windy northwest winds.

Models are struggling with the southern extent of the system, but if the stronger solution verifies, as much as 4-8” of snow may fall on the mountain during the day and into the evening Tuesday, to be reported Wednesday morning.

Skies will clear and spring will return for midweek into the beginning of the weekend before a possibly prolonged period of wet weather starts around mid-weekend.