Cool start to a nice weekend
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Temperatures have only touched fifty degrees by this Thursday mid-afternoon in Steamboat Springs, with some clouds left over from last night’s cold front still lurking to our north. The cool temperatures and mix of sun and clouds will stick around on Friday and be reinforced on Saturday morning by a grazing, dry cold front. Mostly sunny skies and warmer temperatures close out the weekend for Sunday ahead of another grazing cold front to start the week.
After around a quarter-inch of rain fell in Steamboat Springs last night as a cold front passed through, a quintessential fall day has settled over the area, with breezy winds and high temperatures only around fifty degrees, below our average of fifty-nine degrees.
Cool, northwest flow will continue on Friday with similar temperatures and sky cover behind the storm and ahead of another approaching storm. However, weather forecast models have trended weaker and further north, leading to a grazing cold front on Saturday that will keep the cool temperatures around for another day. There may be some clouds to start the day, but mostly sunny skies are forecast by the afternoon.
A transient ridge of high pressure then moves over the West behind Saturday’s grazing cold front and ahead of a storm now over the Bering Sea, forecast to develop over the Gulf of Alaska by Sunday. Mostly sunny skies with high temperatures in the low sixties will make for a gorgeous fall Sunday. Like the grazing cool front on Saturday, weather forecast models have trended weaker and further north with the Gulf of Alaska storm, which is now predicted to bring another likely dry grazing cold front through our area on Monday.
An eddy of low pressure left behind from last night’s storm is eventually forecast to form off the coast of Baja, before being dragged across the Desert Southwest by midweek. The latest forecast indicates that the eddy will remain south of our area, but I’ll have more details on how this may or may not affect us in my next weather narrative, which may be published as late as Monday, depending on my uncertain Sunday schedule.
