Increasingly hot and dry weather ahead of cool front to arrive Thursday
Sunday, July 6, 2025
A sunny and cool Sunday morning in Steamboat Springs follows over an inch of needed rain on Thursday night and Saturday afternoon. High temperatures will rise under mostly sunny skies from the mid-eighties today toward the ninety-degree mark on Wednesday before a couple of cool fronts arrive on Thursday and Friday.
After a relatively dry June when only 0.58” of precipitation fell, an inch shy of average, a well-advertised cool front this last Thursday night brought just over an inch of rain to town, right after the first ninety-degree day of the season was reached on Wednesday. The cooler temperatures on Independence Day inhibited further showers, but warmer temperatures on Saturday acted on the lingering moisture to produce another couple of tenths of an inch of rain from a strong thunderstorm that moved through just before 2 pm.
Aside from a small chance of an afternoon shower today, rain chances are near nil through midweek as a ridge of high pressure builds over the West ahead of an eddy of low pressure that formed off the coast of northern California. Mid-eighty-degree high temperatures are forecast for today and Monday, with upper eighties for Tuesday and another ninety-degree day likely on Wednesday.
Similar to last week, a storm rotating through the Gulf of Alaska and eventually the Pacific Northwest will drag the California eddy eastward, crossing the Great Basin late on Wednesday and bringing a cool front through our area on Thursday. However, unlike the last storm, there will be no moisture drawn northward from the Mexican Plateau, crimping the chance of showers when the front moves through.
High temperatures on Thursday will fall back to a degree or two above our average of eighty-three degrees with some westerly breezes. Another degree or two of cooling is advertised for Friday, with northwesterly breezes, as trailing energy behind the Pacific Northwest storm drags another cool front through our area by morning.
Enjoy the very summery start to the workweek and check back for my next regularly scheduled weather narrative on Thursday afternoon, where I’ll have the details on what is looking like a warm and dry weekend ahead.
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