Spring Fever over Steamboat Springs through the weekend
Thursday, March 24, 2022
Temperatures are in the mid-thirties in the town of Steamboat Springs this Thursday noon under sunny skies, on their way to the mid-forties. Continued mostly sunny skies and steadily increasing temperatures are forecast through the weekend, likely reaching and perhaps exceeding the vaunted sixty degree mark by Sunday. Enjoy the beautiful weather as unsettled conditions are forecast to return to our area around Tuesday.
Thanks to a ridge of high pressure ahead of a storm currently developing in the Gulf of Alaska, the weather will be easy to forecast through the weekend, for a change. Lots of sun and steadily warming temperatures are in our immediate future, rising five to ten degrees on Saturday and that again on Sunday from our average high temperature of 45 F that we will see today. That means a six will likely be in front of our high temperatures on Sunday!
The Gulf of Alaska storm is forecast to approach the West Coast this weekend and undergo some sort of split, though weather forecast models are struggling with the evolution of the storm as it crosses the West Coast late in the weekend. It looks like we will sneak in another springlike day on Monday, though we may see some increasing clouds and breezy winds from the southwest ahead of the approaching storm.
Unsettled weather is advertised starting around Tuesday and should last for a couple of days, and perhaps be followed by a trailing storm later in the week. Get out and enjoy the gorgeous spring weather this weekend, and I’ll be back discussing our next storm system in my regularly scheduled weather narrative on Sunday afternoon.
