Dry weather, high winds spur Thursday fire watch
Ongoing dry conditions and high winds have led the National Weather Service to issue a fire watch for later this week in the Steamboat Springs area.
With sunny skies and breezy conditions expected to continue all day Tuesday and Wednesday, the NWS has issued a fire watch for the entire day Thursday. Completely dry weather is likely to persist through the weekend, according to the NWS forecast issued Monday afternoon.
“We will see gusty afternoon winds on Monday and Tuesday, with continued 80-degree temperatures, ahead of a cool front on Wednesday,” wrote local meteorologist Mike Weissbluth in his latest twice-weekly forecast on SnowAlarm.com. “High temperatures will fall into the low-70s, with another day of gusty winds before they relax on 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.”
Saturday’s 86-degree high temperature tied the 1893 record for the second-warmest temperature reading on that date, Weissbluth added, falling just a degree shy of the 87-degree mark set in 2000.
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