Pleasant Memorial Day weekend to see increasing shower chances by Sunday

Thursday, May 22, 2025

Mid-seventy degree temperatures, breezes, and mostly sunny skies are over Steamboat Springs this Thursday mid-afternoon. The pleasant weather will continue through the long Memorial Day weekend, with only slight chances for a passing afternoon storm on Saturday. By Sunday, those chances increase and persist for Memorial Day as a weak storm moving through the area drops high temperatures to around seventy degrees.

A weak storm approaching the West Coast is being pushed along by a developing stronger storm in the Gulf of Alaska. The weak storm is forecast to grow weaker as it moves through the Great Basin on Saturday and splits. We should see a couple of beautiful days on Friday and Saturday with high temperatures persisting in the mid-seventies, above our average 68 F on Friday and 69 F on Saturday. Friday will be sunnier and breezier, with a chance of a passing shower Saturday afternoon and evening as the storm approaches.

While we will still see likely sunny mornings on Sunday and Memorial Day, clouds will increase after noon with a good chance of afternoon and evening showers as the parent storm moves overhead. Breezes will decrease due to light winds around the storm’s center, except for gusty winds around the thunderstorms, and high temperatures will cool a bit and fall toward average.

As the sun moves higher in the sky as summer approaches, cold storms will have an increasingly difficult time displacing the warm air in their path, and such will be the case with the approaching Gulf of Alaska storm. It is forecast to significantly weaken as it crosses the West Coast on Memorial Day, only bringing chances of late-day storms as temperatures rebound back to the mid-seventies for the rest of the workweek.

Enjoy the beautiful start to the Memorial Day weekend, and check back for more details on the weak storm to end the weekend in my next regularly scheduled weather narrative on Sunday afternoon.

• Posted at 3:29:16 PM in Steamboat forecast discussion
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