Warm and mostly sunny to start the workweek
Sunday, March 9, 2025
Bluebird skies and temperatures rising toward freezing are over Steamboat Springs late this Sunday morning. The dry and pleasant weather will extend through most of the workweek as temperatures rise toward fifty degrees with mostly sunny skies on Monday and some clouds on Tuesday and Wednesday. A still-warm but cloudy Thursday will precede a strong winter storm for Friday.
A cool but sunny day on Saturday followed 13” of snow at mid-mountain and 21” up top that fell between last Monday and Friday nights. A ridge of high pressure over the West will bring mostly sunny skies today and Monday with temperatures rising to the mid-forties today and toward fifty degrees on Monday, above our average of 43 F.
The northern part of a splitting storm off the West Coast will move across the Canadian border, bringing some clouds on Tuesday as the southern part briefly forms an eddy that crosses the southern California coast on Tuesday. The eddy weakens and quickly moves across Arizona and New Mexico on Wednesday, bringing some clouds to our area during the day.
Meanwhile, a strong winter storm forming over the Gulf of Alaska on Tuesday is forecast to cross the West Coast on Wednesday. The storm will be cold due to its formation over the northern latitudes and wet thanks to the remnants of an atmospheric river from Indonesia.
Moisture ahead of the storm will bring a cloudy but still-warm Thursday ahead of likely significant snowfall starting later Thursday or Friday, with much colder temperatures over ten degrees below average. Longer-term weather forecast models have this colder and wetter weather persisting through the weekend and much of the following workweek as we head toward the vernal equinox at 3:01 am on Thursday, March 20th.
So soak up the springlike weather to start the workweek, and I’ll have more details on the impending winter storm for the end of the workweek in my next regularly scheduled weather narrative on Thursday afternoon.
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