Author: Ben Castellani (Page 191 of 358)

Detailed Forecast Discussion: The California Low has moved only slightly overnight coming ashore near Los Angeles. Before the sun went down yesterday, GOES-East was showing the impressive low spinning offshore with deep wrap-around moisture flowing into the Desert Southwest (and of course, those mostly sunny skies over Colorado and all of the snowpack in the Mountains!). The current position of …

Detailed Forecast Discussion: It will be another warm and sunny day across most of Colorado with continued southwesterly flow pushing across the region. Today's large-scale weather setup (shown below) has a big cut-off low pressure near the California coast. It seems like this has been the exact pattern for the last few weeks. We're always discussing a "California low" early …

Detailed Forecast Discussion: Temperatures have dropped like a ROCK overnight following the cold frontal passage that occurred around 8:30 PM last night. Low clouds, fog and drizzle developed as expected, but it's clear from the current temperatures (see below) and widespread coverage of the drizzle that the push of cool/moist air from the northeast was stronger than models were indicating …

Detailed Forecast Discussion: Despite the slight concerns we had earlier this week that a cold front would slide in this morning, that will (probably) not be the case! As a result, we thankfully have one more gorgeous spring day to kick off the month of April before things turn uglier tomorrow! A large-scale trough remains inked across the Pacific Northwest...as …

Detailed Forecast Discussion: A quiet day is expected today across the Front Range as a shortwave ridge passes through. The main storm track and jet stream are situated to our north across Wyoming and Montana. This will remain the case through Wednesday night. The GFS 500 mb vorticity map below for this evening shows two waves moving along that storm …