Warm and mostly sunny for a quintessential Colorado summer weekend
Thursday, June 26, 2025
Temperatures are around eighty degrees with mostly sunny skies this Thursday mid-afternoon in Steamboat Springs. The sunny skies, possibly hazy at times with some afternoon clouds, will persist for most of the weekend, with temperatures climbing into the mid-to-upper eighties. There is a chance for some moisture to return to our area during the following workweek.
The jet stream, in its summertime mode, is migrating northward toward Canada as weak disturbances ripple through it, keeping the highest winds to our north. A flat ridge of high pressure over most of the continental United States will allow high temperatures to rise to the mid-eighties on Friday, above our eighty-degree average, with a few degrees of warming forecast for Saturday. The dry air and clear nighttime skies will allow low temperatures to cool into the forties, just above our average of 42 F.
There may be some hazy skies at times due to smoke being transported from the France Canyon wildfire in southern Utah, with some smoke predicted by the NOAA Smoke plume model on Friday afternoon. The model is run four times a day out to 48 hours, so feel free to check that when making outdoor plans this weekend.
A ripple moving through the jet stream may drop high temperatures a degree or two on Sunday. A weak storm is then forecast to form off the California coast over the weekend, and we may see some increasing moisture through next week due to the more southerly winds ahead of the approaching storm. So enjoy this upcoming quintessential Colorado summer weekend, and I’ll have more details on the approaching moisture in my next regularly scheduled weather narrative on Sunday afternoon.
