Winds to increase ahead of dry midweek cool front

Sunday, June 7, 2026

Eighty-degree temperatures and a mix of sun and clouds are over Steamboat Springs this Sunday mid-afternoon. Several low-pressure areas from the Pacific Northwest will bring increasing winds ahead of a cool front on Wednesday, with another day of gusty winds but cooler temperatures in the low 70s. Cooler temperatures persist on a calmer Thursday before temperatures rise again to around 80 degrees heading into next weekend.

Saturday was a hot, summery day, with the 86-degree high temperature tying 1893 for the second-warmest of that date, but falling a degree shy of the 2000 record of 87 degrees.

Temperatures have cooled to around 80 degrees today, above our 74-degree average, as the first in a series of waves rotates northeast of our area through a broad area of low pressure over the Pacific Northwest.

The waves will not be able to make much progress toward the Central Rockies as they are deflected to the northeast by a ridge of high pressure extending from the Southeast northward to Hudson Bay. We will see gusty afternoon winds on Monday and Tuesday, with continued 80-degree temperatures, ahead of a cool front on Wednesday associated with the strongest of the waves. High temperatures will fall into the low-seventies, with another day of gusty winds before they relax on a Thursday with average temperatures.

High temperatures are forecast to be back around 80 degrees for the end of the workweek and heading into the weekend. While precipitation is unlikely with the Wednesday cool front, chances may increase around next weekend, depending on how another Pacific Northwest storm evolves.

So enjoy the pleasant, if not breezy, workweek weather, and I’ll have more details about precipitation chances in my next regularly scheduled weather narrative on Thursday afternoon.

• Posted at 3:05:48 PM in Steamboat forecast discussion
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