Beautiful weather has arrived for Labor Day and the workweek ahead
Sunday, August 31, 2025
Temperatures are in the delightful mid-seventies with mostly sunny skies this Sunday mid-afternoon in Steamboat Springs. After the recent cool and wet workweek boosted our August precipitation to above average, temperatures will warm toward eighty degrees for Labor Day and the rest of the workweek, with rain chances creeping back into the forecast around next weekend.
Including the brief shower Saturday afternoon, which has yet to be entered into the official observations at the Steamboat Springs weather station near the high school, it has rained every day this past week. Nine-tenths of an inch of rain fell, bringing our monthly total to 2.05”, not including the brief shower yesterday, which is above our average of 1.74”
But dry air is now overhead due to a building ridge of high pressure over the West, bringing mostly sunny skies and temperatures approaching eighty degrees for Labor Day and the rest of the workweek, just above our seventy-eight-degree average.
The dry air will allow nighttime temperatures to fall to the low forties, and likely the upper thirties in the favored low-lying areas of the Yampa River Basin, right around the thirty-nine-degree average. We may see smoke at times from the Garret wildfire in the central Sierras and the Klamath wildfires in northern California as it is directed over the top of the ridge of high pressure and toward our area. Stay abreast of the latest forty-eight-hour smoke forecast from the NOAA Smoke model forecast, which is run four times a day.
While last week it looked like we had a chance for the season’s first fall-like cold front around midweek, weather forecast models now have a stronger ridge of high pressure over the West, deflecting the chilly air, which will include the nation’s first below-freezing temperatures over the Upper Midwest, to our east.
The next chance for rain may occur next weekend, when moisture from a tropical disturbance moving near Baja may be directed toward our area by developing low pressure off the California coast.
Enjoy the gorgeous weather for the unofficial end of summer on Labor Day tomorrow and the workweek ahead, and I’ll have more details on precipitation chances for next weekend in my next regularly scheduled weather narrative on Thursday afternoon.
