Author: Ben Castellani (Page 177 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 – Sun 10/04/20 | Let the warming commence

October 4, 2020 /

MDetailed Forecast Discussion: ostly sunny and dry weather will continue for the next several days across the Front Range. You know the story; it's been told many times all summer long and now again in early autumn. A strong dual-lobed ridge of high pressure continues to sit across the Four Corners and West Coast regions, with a trough in the …

In the face of La Niña, the rest of 2020 is shaping up to be warm and dry in Colorado

October 1, 2020 /

For the first time in three years, La Niña conditions have developed and are expected to last through the upcoming winter. We discuss the forecast, remind you what La Niña actually is, and explain the potential impacts La Niña will have on Colorado for the rest of autumn. If you like pie charts, box-and-whisker graphs and/or 3-D representations of ocean temperatures, this post is most definitely for you!

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BoulderCAST Daily – Thu 10/01/20 | Sunny with increasing smoke, no precip in the pipeline

October 1, 2020 /

MDetailed Forecast Discussion: ore sunshine is expected today as mid-level ridging holds across the West Coast. Another weak cold front clipped the area overnight. As we've been reiterating all week, the current large-scale weather pattern across North America is quite favorable for these frequent cold fronts. They have all been fairly tame so far, with most of the cold air …

BoulderCAST Daily – Wed 09/30/20 | Sunny & just a tad cooler

September 30, 2020 /

ODetailed Forecast Discussion: n this last day of September, dry and sunny weather will continue as a persistent and dominant ridge of high pressure aloft remains across the western third of the country. There are actually two high pressure centers embedded in this ridge (shown below): one in the Pacific Northwest and a second in northern Mexico. Since we are …

BoulderCAST Daily – Tue 09/29/20 | Back to above normal temperatures

September 29, 2020 /

FDetailed Forecast Discussion: ollowing the brief cooldown we saw over the last two days, we get right back to above normal temperatures as northeasterly flow turns towards a warmer northwesterly direction across the area today. This quick shift in temperatures is the result of the pronounced dipole pattern across North America which we foreshadowed last week. Colorado lies right in …

BoulderCAST Daily – Thu 09/24/20 | Record heat likely in the coming days

September 24, 2020 /

YDetailed Forecast Discussion: esterday's high temperature was 84°F at BoulderCAST Station. We'll be a few degrees warmer than this today as 700mb temperatures edge even higher. There is a notable tilted ridge axis sliding across Colorado today (shown below). It stretches from the Desert Southwest into central Canada. Once this axis passes around mid-day, warm air advection under southwesterly flow …

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