Southern storm to graze our area Thursday
Monday, October 20, 2025
A bright, breezy and cool fall day is over Steamboat Springs after last night’s cold front, with temperatures in the mid-forties as of this Monday mid-afternoon. Warming temperatures and mostly sunny skies are forecast through Wednesday before a storm moving across the Desert southwest grazes our area with possible showers on Thursday. Nice weather returns to start the weekend ahead of a strong winterlike storm to end the weekend.
The grazing cold front early this morning dropped around a tenth of an inch of rain, lowering the high temperatures from the upper-sixties on a beautiful Sunday, about ten degrees above our average of fifty-seven degrees, to ten degrees below average today. Expect the coldest night of the season so far tonight, as light overnight winds and clear skies allow low temperatures to drop to around twenty degrees, around five degrees below our average of twenty-five degrees, and colder in the low-lying drainages.
The storm responsible for the cold front is forecast to quickly move from the Dakatos to the Great Lakes by late Tuesday before stalling and spinning over the Northeast through the rest of the workweek. A flat ridge of high pressure will move overhead through midweek behind the storm, allowing for mostly sunny skies and high temperatures warming into the mid-fifties on Tuesday and around sixty degrees on Wednesday, which should be the warmest day of the week.
Meanwhile, an eddy of low pressure off the coast of Baja, left behind by last week’s storm, is forecast to be nudged across the Desert Southwest by a couple of North Pacific storm moving across the Gulf of Alaska. Weather forecast models have struggled with the speed and location of the eddy, typical of eddies cut off from the main jet stream, but have settled on the eddy moving across the Four Corners by Thursday evening and the Oklahoma Panhandle by Friday night.
Clouds will increase by Wednesday night with some light showers possible on Thursday as the center of the storm traverses southern Colordao. High temperatures will only fall several degrees into the upper-fifties as, unsurprisingly, there is not much cold air associated with the Baja storm.
Nice weather returns for Friday and Saturday ahead of another North Pacific storm that is forecast to move across the Gulf of Alaska on Thursday and cross the Pacific Northwest coast on Friday. This will be the coldest storm of the season so far, with the storm crossing the Great Basin on Saturday and approaching our area by sometime Sunday.
Enjoy the nice fall weather through midweek, and I’ll have more details on the timing and strength of the approaching cold front, including anticipated snow amounts which are likely at all elevations, in my next regularly scheduled weather narrative on Thursday afternoon.
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