Author: Ben Castellani (Page 196 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.

DayCAST: Thu 02/13/20

February 13, 2020 /

Just a plain old cold Thursday Today will be cold overall as most of our state has been enveloped by a very cold airmass following the strong front that moved through yesterday. Lingering clouds and even some fog overnight has helped keep our overnight temperatures from falling too far. The Boulder area is in the upper teens, with low to …

DayCAST: Wed 02/12/20

February 12, 2020 /

Today will be snowier than previously expected We've been discussing the dearth of model agreement on solutions to handle the incoming shortwave for a few days now. The storm system doesn't look like much at 500mb....just a weak trough dropping southward out of Montana and into Colorado. However, at the surface, a very cold Arctic airmass will surge southward into …

DayCAST: Tue 02/11/20

February 11, 2020 /

Snow wraps up before sunrise, cold lingers The cold front last night and a passing trough provided just enough lift to produce a round of widespread light to moderate snowfall across the Metro area. The window was brief, however, and snow will quickly be coming to an end before sunrise this morning. Your location likely picked up a few inches …

DayCAST: Thu 02/06/20

February 6, 2020 /

Difficult forecast for banded snow this evening into tomorrow With the big trough that brought snow to the area Monday and Tuesday now across the Great Lakes, residual northwest flow has been lingering across the Rockies. This will again remain the situation today. Despite weak sinking motion across the entire area, the 500mb vorticity forecast map below shows two shortwave …

Boulder and Denver Snow Totals February 3-4, 2020

February 5, 2020 /

Shown below is the BoulderCAST snowfall forecast map issued Sunday (February 2nd) during the afternoon with actual storm totals overlaid in boxes. Green boxes indicate that our forecast verified to within one inch of the observed snowfall. Red did not.

Seasonal Snow Totals (Updated Feb 5 2020)
Boulder Denver
73.0" 32.7"
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