Author: Ben Castellani (Page 206 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.

*Premium Storm Update* Sun 10/27/19 2:00 PM

October 27, 2019 /

The storm has played out just as expected so far with the cold air surging in last night around sunset and drizzle turning to freezing drizzle then eventually snow earlier this morning. Very shallow low-level upslope has produced 1 to 3" of accumulation in spots already across the Front Range. The snow table at CU Boulder has about 2" now, though the …

First wave of Arctic blast to impact the area Saturday night into Monday morning (Updated)

October 26, 2019 /

We’re not going to beat around the bush. A complicated forecast is developing for the next several days that will bring two different snowstorms to the Front Range intermingled with potentially the coldest airmass ever to take hold of northern Colorado during the month of October. In this forecast update, we primarily discuss the first part of the storm that will produce snow across the area Sunday morning into Monday morning.

UPDATE (7:00 PM Sat 10/26/19): Added our official snowfall forecast map to the end of the post!

PREMIUM UPDATE (3:00 PM Sun 10/27/19): Read HERE.

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DayCAST: Thu 10/24/19

October 24, 2019 /

The snow is over....for now It looks like the advertised gradient in snow amounts has verified rather well based on early snow reports and observations. There is between 5 and 6" of snow sitting on the snow table at CU Boulder, while DIA only reported a trace of snow. The rest of the Denver Metro area in between likely will …

DayCAST: Wed 10/23/19

October 23, 2019 /

Better agreement this morning Thankfully most of the models are narrowing in on a shared solution this morning helping us to pinpoint exactly how much snow the area will see later this evening and tonight. Let's take a quick run through some of the newer model runs... First, total precipitation from the storm from four key models below. We see remarkably good …

DayCAST: Tue 10/22/19

October 22, 2019 /

A northwest flow kind of week The big storm system that largely passed to our north over the weekend continues to head away into the Great Lakes region today. We also have a persistent ridge of high pressure holding across the West Coast right now. This ridge isn't expected to make much eastward progress over the next several days. The net result of …

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