Typical spring weather to return this workweek
Sunday, April 20, 2025
High clouds are filtering the sunshine late this Sunday morning in Steamboat Springs, with temperatures in the low forties in town and low twenties at the top of the Steamboat Ski Resort. Temperatures will warm about five degrees each day from about fifty degrees today to the mid-sixties by Thursday. Clouds will come and go as is typical with spring weather, with chances for some afternoon showers.
After a brief wintry spell brought a last powder day on Friday, with about six inches of snow up top and a low temperature of twelve degrees on Friday morning, and an additional two inches overnight and eight degrees on Saturday morning, the Steamboat Ski Resort is ending the season with 304” of snowfall and a 42” base at mid-mountain, and a 94” base with an estimate of just over 400” up top.
The storm that brought the snowfall is moving across the Oklahoma-Kansas border, but moisture from another storm crossing the Pacific Northwest coast is already moving overhead. Clouds will thicken today, with some peeks of sun and a chance for an afternoon shower as temperatures reach fifty degrees.
The storm and additional trailing energy and moisture are forecast to stay mostly north of our area as they rotate through the northern Rockies through the workweek, but afternoon shower chances will be with us through Thursday as temperatures slowly warm into the mid-fifties on Monday, around sixty degrees on Tuesday, and the mid-sixties on Wednesday and Thursday.
A weak storm moving through the Bering Sea may bring a better chance for showers on Friday, but the lack of cold air won’t impact our temperatures. However, uncertainty is high around a stronger and colder storm that follows for the end of the weekend or early the following week.
Enjoy Closing Day at the Steamboat Ski Resort today, and check back on Thursday afternoon for more details on next weekend’s weather in my next regularly scheduled weather narrative.
