Pleasant weather continues through the weekend
Thursday, September 23, 2021
Temperatures are around seventy degrees with some increasing clouds early this Thursday afternoon in the Steamboat Springs area ahead of a grazing storm for Friday that will have little effect on our weather. Sunny skies with continued high temperatures in the seventies look to persist through the weekend and will make a perfect backdrop for viewing the changing fall colors.
A ridge of high pressure is currently over the Gulf of Alaska with a storm centered over Saskatchewan and another over the Great Lakes. The Saskatchewan storm has low pressure extending southwestward into the Great Basin, which is responsible for our cloudiness this afternoon. As the main part of the storm moves southeast into the upper Midwest through Friday, the southern part forms an eddy that moves southwest into the Desert Southwest and eventually southern California for the weekend. We will be grazed with a cool front from the northern portion of the storm tonight, with perhaps a few degrees of cooling but the return of sunny skies for Friday.
The ridge of high pressure is forecast to move overhead through the weekend and into next week, so the beautiful fall weather is expected to continue through then. Changes in the weather may be on our doorstep by around next Tuesday as a storm is forecast to develop in the Gulf of Alaska late in the weekend. We may or may not see effects from that Desert Southwest area of low pressure depending on its track as early as Tuesday, and will likely see effects from that Gulf of Alaska storm around midweek.
Enjoy the gorgeous weekend with warm sunny days and crisp nights and check back for my next regularly scheduled weather narrative on Sunday afternoon for details on the midweek change in the weather.
