Author: Ben Castellani (Page 187 of 358)

TDetailed Forecast Discussion: he large ridge of high pressure that was located over southern California yesterday has slowly moved eastward into Arizona. The flow direction above northern Colorado has changed in the models over the last day or so, from primarily northerly to more of a northwesterly direction (see graphic below).  Because of this, the widely scattered thunderstorms that initiate …

TDetailed Forecast Discussion: he ridge axis that was overhead yesterday has shifted eastward. A very subtle shortwave is progged to move across the Denver Metro area later this evening, shown below. This trough combined with slowly increasing moisture will lead to the development of scattered showers and storms this evening, Admittedly the models have backed off on this feature recently …

Detailed Forecast Discussion: Weak ridging has developed across Colorado today and this will remain the case through the evening. A large trough is still located to our west, right where it has been all week. This trough will finally make progress eastward over the upcoming holiday weekend, but not before we squeeze out a mostly beautiful Friday. Similar to yesterday, …

Detailed Forecast Discussion: The next two days will be defined by a drier, cooler and more stable airmass across Colorado following a cold front that moved through last night. A stagnant, blocking weather pattern across the eastern United States has prevented the trough coming ashore into the Pacific Northwest from making much eastward progress. The lows across the northern Rockies …

Detailed Forecast Discussion: Conditions are more favorable for severe weather today but that threat is fortunately just to our east. The same surface frontal boundary (dry line) that split the Denver Metro area in half yesterday has pushed eastward with the juicy air now fully located across the eastern Plains of Colorado. It's right along this boundary that we once …