Author: Ben Castellani (Page 134 of 358)

Ben grew up in southwestern Pennsylvania and holds both a bachelor's and a master's degree in Meteorology, the latter being from CU Boulder. His hometown received nearly three feet of snow from the Storm of the Century back in March of 1993, sparking his initial interest in impactful weather. Ben currently works on remote sensing and data analysis software at NV5 Geospatial Software in Boulder.

BoulderCAST Daily – Wed 02/09/22 | More clouds around with an isolated rain/snow shower tonight

Another weak clipper system will impact eastern Colorado today dropping in with the northwest flow.  The trough axis will pass through the Denver area around midnight tonight, with mainly just a notable increase in clouds expected for the Front Range. As we have been discussing all week, this system has very little moisture to work with, is moving rapidly, and …

BoulderCAST Daily – Tue 02/08/22 | Sunny, seasonal, and breezy

The tail-end of a weak trough axis is clipping through our area today. The parent storm is all the way up north of Minnesota this morning with the meager wave trailing back westward towards Wyoming. This feature shows up nicely on this morning's GOES-East infrared satellite animation --- and it isn't much to write home about. In our neck of …

This week in Colorado weather: February 7, 2022

After one of the snowiest mid-winter stretches in Boulder’s history, it appears that things will quiet down somewhat for the week ahead. Temperatures will be fairly mild through the week. However, there will be several disturbances to watch which could produce snow across the Front Range — one Wednesday night with another to follow late Friday. Read on for our complete outlook for the week ahead.

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Weekend Weather Snapshot: February 3, 2022

After more than 30 continuous hours, snowfall finally came to an end last evening across the entire area. We'll post the final storm totals later this morning so keep a look out if you are interested for that. Overnight skies have mostly cleared across the area, though there are still some low clouds lingering in spots. The microphysics cloud animation …

BoulderCAST Daily – Wed 02/02/22 | Intermittent light snow lingers into the evening followed by below zero temperatures late tonight

Reported snowfall totals indicate that most areas saw between 6 and 10" of snow so far. We just measured close to 8" at BoulderCAST Station. The major outlier, as expected, was Denver International Airport which has seen a measly 2.1" so far! The map below contains all the co-op reports that have come in so far at this early morning …

Premium Storm Update – Tue 02/01/22 7:00 AM | Snow begins this afternoon, higher-end snow totals appear more likely

In case you missed it, we provided an updated forecast and our snowfall map last evening. Below is what we came up with. Upslope is expected to focus the heavier snowfall into the western suburbs, with the most snow likely to fall in Boulder and the Foothills just to the west below 8500 feet. The upslope is somewhat shallow this …

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