Author: Ben Castellani (Page 16 of 358)

Our first storm system of the week is now exiting Colorado and lifting into the Midwest, leaving behind only a few straggling rain showers on the far Eastern Plains and pockets of very light snow clinging to the Continental Divide. Winter Park tells the real story of where the moisture actually went—just over 8 inches of new snow in the …

The first of two storm systems this week is sliding across Colorado today, bringing snow back to the High Country and a round of light, scattered showers for the lower elevations. Early Tuesday morning's satellite imagery shows the compact cut‑off low spinning over far southern Utah, with the center of the circulation on track to pass almost directly over Denver …

After several days of “late‑period” showers and thunderstorms teasing the forecast—amounting to just 0.01" in Boulder and only a trace in Denver—we finally dry out today as a much drier airmass pushes in from the southwest. GOES‑East water vapor imagery still highlights the stubborn closed low lingering just offshore of northern California, but the more relevant signal for Colorado is …

Today brings another round of sporadic raindrops as our unsettled pattern continues to churn across the central and northern Rockies. A steady plume of subtropical moisture is still being funneled northward into Colorado on the eastern flank of a broad California trough. While moisture levels aren’t quite as robust as yesterday, there’s still enough juice in the column to support …

The first rumbles of 2026 echoed across Boulder County Thursday evening as a weak, early‑season thunderstorm bubbled up over south Boulder before drifting through Superior and Broomfield and then collapsing further east. It only managed a couple minutes of rain, but the return of convective structure—lightning, updrafts, outflow winds—is a clear signal that we’re transitioning into spring mode along the …