Author: Ben Castellani (Page 224 of 358)

Warm with increasing clouds today The first full-day of spring will be a stellar one! The storm system we have been tracking all week is making progress towards Colorado and will be a player for us tomorrow. The center is located in Nevada today, with warm/moist southerly flow pushing northward into our region. This should make for temperatures a few degrees …

Happy Vernal Equinox We have endured a very long, cold, and at times, snowy winter thus far. But alas, spring is finally upon us....Hooray! Despite the name literally coming from a Latin term that translates to "equality of night", we do not experience equal amounts of day and night on the Equinox. That actually happened a few days ago. TimeandDate.com …

Dreary Tuesday A weak and mainly dry storm system is dropping southward out of central Canada and through the Dakotas today. The position of this system at 500mb both this morning and tonight can be seen below. The weak trough brought a decent cold front into the Metro area last night, so highs will only push into the upper 30's to …

BOOM! What an incredible storm yesterday! After a few hours of moderate rainfall in the morning, temperatures dropped on schedule with a change-over to snow occurring in most locations between 9 and 11AM. The radar animation from mid-day yesterday speaks for itself! For those wondering, this was indeed a "bomb cyclone". The central pressure dropped more than 24 mb in …

The beginning stages of our major winter storm are underway! The powerful surface low has formed and will tighten up through the rest of the morning into afternoon with winds beginning to really ramp up. Observations show the central pressure is around 975mb at this time with the center of the storm rather broad, but located somewhere east of Colorado …