Author: Ben Castellani (Page 219 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 05/16/19

Another hot one today, but chance of storms Yesterday saw the mercury spike across portions of northeast Colorado to 90+ degrees for the first time in 2019, including the cities of Greeley, Sterling, and Yuma.  Temperatures in the Metro area were more modest in the low to middle 80's. Shown below are yesterday's reported high temperatures. Those very warm temperatures will …

DayCAST: Wed 05/15/19

Warm Wednesday! The high temperature yesterday at BoulderCAST Station was 84 degrees before high-base storm clouds rolled in to cool things off. This was the warmest day thus far in 2019! We'll likely get similarly toasty today, possibly a degree or two higher due to a lessened storm chances and a warmer overall airmass. The HRRR forecast graphic below shows …

DayCAST: Tue 05/14/19

Another warm and primarily dry day A significant ridge is holding strong across Colorado today, though there once again will be a few high-base thunderstorms firing this afternoon and early evening. It's unlikely such storms would produce anything more than brief light rainfall and gusty winds across the Metro area. We put the chance of rain only in the 10% …

This week in weather: May 13, 2019

In stark contrast to what transpired last week, the next handful of days will be warm and pleasant across the region with only minor chances of late-day thunderstorms. However, late in the week, a Pacific storm system will slide into the area, though it’s not exactly clear what the impacts will be across the Front Range. Read on for our complete forecast of the week ahead.

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DayCAST: Thu 05/09/19

Well how about that? Snow on May 9th!  Looking across the Front Range, snow totals are going to just squeak into the low end of our forecast ranges. Temperatures never quite dropped below freezing last night. At BoulderCAST Station, we had readings between 32 and 33 degrees during most of the overnight hours, but with snow mixing in as early …

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