Author: Ben Castellani (Page 186 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.

Saturday’s historic Colorado “derecho” wind event was one for the record books

June 9, 2020 /

Were you caught off-guard by the historic wind storm that swept across Colorado on Saturday? This type of widespread, damaging wind event is known as a derecho. What transpired on Saturday was the first in recorded history to impact Boulder and Denver. We take a look at the low pressure that caused the event, the astonishing wind reports from across the area, and discuss why this may have been the first and last derecho we ever experience.

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BoulderCAST Daily – Tue 06/09/20 | Rain tapers off through the morning, staying cool

June 9, 2020 /

IDetailed Forecast Discussion: t has been a very wet and chilly overnight period with nearly 0.80" of rain having fallen at BoulderCAST Station so far. The current radar animation shows widespread cold rain holding over eastern Colorado. Temperatures are generally in the low to middle 40's across the Plains. Above roughly 8000 feet, it has been cold enough for accumulating …

This week in Colorado weather: June 8, 2020

June 8, 2020 /

A welcomed cool-down will transpire early in the week as a strong Pacific trough moves across the Rockies. However, accompanying the cooler temperatures will be very strong winds Monday evening and night, as well as widespread rain and even some wet snow in the higher elevations. By mid-week, yet another ridge of high pressure will begin to take shape leading to a warming and drying trend for the Front Range.

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BoulderCAST Daily – Thu 06/04/20 | Hot with gusty storm outflows expected, little to no rain

June 4, 2020 /

⦁❶⦁ Hot and mostly dry with just a 10% chance of an afternoon shower or weak storm

⦁❷⦁ Due to a very dry lower atmosphere, strong gusty outflows expected but brief light rainfall

⦁❸⦁ Hot with temperatures peaking in the lower 90’s by early afternoon

⦁❹⦁ Deeper moisture arrives tomorrow from the southwest with an uptick in storm activity expected

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BoulderCAST Daily – Wed 06/03/20 | High pressure in control, but isolated storms linger

June 3, 2020 /

MDetailed Forecast Discussion: id-level winds have really picked up compared to the last several days with stronger westerly flow taking over across Colorado aloft. Whereas steering winds had been only 5-10 mph the last few days leading to slow-moving thunderstorms and pockets of flash flooding across eastern Colorado, that concern is no more with 500mb winds increasing to 35-40 mph …

BoulderCAST Daily – Tue 06/02/20 | Cooler but still warm and a small chance of storms

June 2, 2020 /

BDetailed Forecast Discussion: oulder set a new daily record high temperature for June 1st yesterday hitting 91°F which is also our warmest temperature thus far in 2020. Denver International Airport hit 93°F but did not set a record. I did a little digging into the record books and found that Denver's record high for June 1st was 96°F from 2002. …

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