Pleasant workweek weather to be interrupted by high-elevation snow chances starting later Tuesday
Sunday, February 1, 2026
A lovely sunny day is over Steamboat Springs this Sunday at noon, with temperatures in the mid-thirties in town, on the way to the upper-forties, and mid-twenties at the top of the Steamboat Ski Resort. A couple of grazing waves will bring cooler, but still seasonably warm, temperatures through midweek, with clouds on Monday morning and some snow chances starting later Tuesday, lasting into Wednesday morning. Temperatures rebound by Thursday with a nice start to the 113th Steamboat Winter Carnival weekend.
A ridge of high pressure over the West, bringing the gorgeous day today, is sandwiched between a cold trough of low pressure over eastern North America and a series of storms gestating between the Aleutian Islands and the Gulf of Alaska. A couple of these storms are forecast to round the top of the ridge, the first bringing only cloudiness on Monday morning and the second, a chance for high-elevation snow showers from later Tuesday into Wednesday morning.
High temperatures today will reach the upper forties, well above our average of thirty-one degrees, before falling into the low forties on Monday due to modest cooling associated with the first grazing wave. The second on Tuesday will bring more clouds, limiting high temperatures to around forty degrees, along with the late-day and early-Wednesday snow showers. Any accumulations are likely to be meager unless the wave nudges further to the west, which is always a possibility with a source of cold air to our east.
Another day of high temperatures of around forty degrees on a clearing Wednesday will precede a warmup as the rebounding ridge of high pressure moves overhead. Mostly sunny skies with upper-forty-degree temperatures are forecast for Thursday, with even fifty degrees possible on a continued sunny Friday.
The nice weather will last into at least the start of the weekend, with weather forecast models disagreeing on how a storm from the Gulf of Alaska interacts with the ridge. There may be precipitation chances as early as the end of the weekend, or they may hold off until the following workweek.
So enjoy the nice week ahead, and I’ll have more details about the precipitation chances that may herald a desperately needed pattern change in my next regularly scheduled weather narrative on Thursday afternoon.
