Local meteorologist Mike Weissbluth said Sunday that modest shower chances will continue through the week accompanied by hot temperatures reaching near 90 degrees Fahrenheit on Tuesday.

“But there is hope for a cooler and wetter weather pattern starting around Thursday and continuing through next weekend,” Weissbluth posted on SnowAlarm.com on Sunday.

The local meteorologist, who posts twice a week forecasts to SnowAlarm.com on Sunday and Thursday afternoons, said a degree of warming on Monday afternoon will be followed by another warming trend Tuesday, “as winds shift from the southwest to the west.”

“These westerly winds look to bring dry air overhead and reduce or eliminate showers for the day,” he added.

“But moisture returns by Wednesday as some energy left behind by the Canadian waves merges with some energy ejecting from a strong series of storms over the Aleutian Islands and begins to dig southward along the West Coast,” said Weissbluth.

By Friday, Weissbluth said “monsoonal moisture is reinforced starting Friday” as temperatures cool, bringing a “good chance for storms.”

“Longer-range weather forecast models have even cooler and unsettled weather persisting through the weekend and into the beginning of the next workweek,” added Weissbluth.

The Yampa River was flowing at 131 cubic feet per second as of 3:15 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, down from 160 cfs a week ago on the afternoon of July 29.

River temperatures registered at 69.2 degrees Fahrenheit on Sunday afternoon, down from 72.86 Fahrenheit on the afternoon of July 29.

River closure policies in Steamboat mean the Yampa can be closed for tubing and angling if there are two days of water temperatures higher than 75 degrees Fahrenheit or higher or if flows drop below 85 cfs at the U.S. Geological Survey agency station located at the Fifth Street Bridge.