Author: Ben Castellani (Page 117 of 358)

The trough from Friday has pushed into Canada, while the trough axis stretches from the Dakotas into far eastern Colorado. The passage of the trough, in conjunction with drier air settling in this afternoon, will produce a dry downslope flow on the Plains and also across the central to northern parts of the mountains. Both of the above mentioned factors …

Apotent upper-level disturbance will track through the state in the westerly flow over the Rockies. While the jet is not overly impressive, it is approaching 80 mph, which is decent for late-summer. This approach and passage of this mid-level wave will organize scattered to numerous showers and storms across the higher terrain today, moving onto the Plains later this afternoon …

Colorado once again resides in a mostly benign northwest flow regime with relatively dry air aloft. Weak high pressure is situated near Las Vegas, with the clockwise flow around this high bringing in the drier air to our area from the northwest. This will lead to another mostly dry day across the Front Range with storms only developing across the …

Similar to yesterday, storm coverage will be quite limited across the Front Range, once again being confined mostly to the higher elevations. The only difference today is the steering flow. It will increase in speed out of the northwest causing any storms that develop up there to drift southeastward towards Boulder and Denver. Moisture is limited with precipitable water values …

After the soggy start to the week, we resume "business as usual" for the summer beginning today. Sunny skies and warm temperatures are on the horizon as high pressure sets up in the northern Rockies. This pattern will cut off the monsoon for the time being with much drier northwest flow taking hold over our state. Yesterday's rain-maker has pushed …