Warm and dry weather ahead of likely end-of-workweek pattern change
Sunday, November 9, 2025
Sunny skies are over Steamboat Springs this Sunday mid-afternoon, with temperatures a degree above our average of forty-six degrees. Even warmer temperatures, ten or more degrees above average, passing clouds, and some afternoon breezes are forecast for most of the workweek ahead of a likely pattern change bringing wet and cold weather starting as soon as Friday.
A ridge of high pressure over the West is sandwiched between an elongating trough of low pressure over the eastern Pacific and a vortex of unseasonably cold air extending southward from north of the Great Lakes. While the cold air over the Midwest will eventually engulf the entire eastern half of the country through midweek, possibly bringing freezing temperatures to northern Florida, the ridge of high pressure will keep warm and dry weather overhead through Thursday with high temperatures in the mid-to-upper fifties.
The southern end of the eastern Pacific trough is forecast to form an eddy by Monday, which loiters between Hawaii and southern California through Tuesday, as the northern end races across the Pacific Northwest, bringing breezy afternoon winds to our area on Tuesday as it briefly flattens the ridge of high pressure overhead.
Meanwhile, a new storm is predicted to form in the Bering Sea on Monday, elongating southward as it moves into the Gulf of Alaska on Tuesday, similar to the previous storm. However, this storm does not split and remains intact, absorbing some of the eddy and eventually bringing a wet and cold pattern to the West Coast on Thursday and the Interior West on Friday.
Ahead of that storm, part of the eddy will be forced northeastward, quickly moving overhead on Wednesday, bringing clouds that should not dent the warm workweek temperatures. Another warm day is forecast for Thursday before the incoming storm affects our weather as soon as Friday.
Until then, enjoy another mild fall workweek, and I’ll certainly have more details on how this promising pattern change is evolving in my next regularly scheduled weather narrative on Thursday afternoon. And a heads up! Are you interested in learning how I use my website to make a weather forecast? On Tuesday, November 18th, at 6:30 pm at the Bud Werner Memorial Library, I’ll walk you through the process and show you the tools I use at SnowAlarm.com to create this weather narrative.
