Author: Ben Castellani (Page 86 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.

This Week in Colorado Weather: September 11, 2023

September 11, 2023 /

The dog-days of summer are squarely behind us as cool and unsettled weather continue across the Front Range this week. Though things will dry out briefly Monday and Tuesday, soggy conditions quickly return as a Pacific trough slowly rakes across the region later in the week. Up to 1″ of rainfall is projected by week’s end along with some of the coldest temperatures we’ve seen in many moons. Let’s take a look!

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September 7, 2023 /

All is quiet across the area today and that will remain the case through Saturday with an intensifying high pressure center in control to our south in Nex Mexico. Troughing sits over the Pacific Northwest and East Coast as well. Under this setup, persistent west-southwest flow will race into Colorado around the northern periphery of this ridge leading to continued …

Premium BoulderCAST Daily – Wed 09/06/23 | Canadian smoke, degraded air quality, warmer temperatures, and lots of sun

September 6, 2023 /

Another day of sunny skies are expected throughout Colorado with dry and stable air staying the course across the Desert Southwest and Rockies. Temperatures yesterday topped out comfortably in the 70s, but the heat returns today as we make a run into the middle to upper 80s and back above our seasonal normals. https://twitter.com/BoulderCAST/status/1699152933831803235 A look across the nation from …

Premium BoulderCAST Daily – Tue 09/05/23 | A beautiful Tuesday kicks off what will be a lengthy dry & sunny stretch for us

September 5, 2023 /

Happy Tuesday! After dealing with continued hot temperatures, a few thundershowers, a cold frontal passage and a downslope wind event on Labor Day (whew!) --- things turn much quieter across the Front Range today as the responsible storm system departs into the Dakotas. https://twitter.com/BoulderCAST/status/1698802840527900840 https://twitter.com/BoulderCAST/status/1698906801310421456 GOES-East shows the impressive autumn-like low pressure straddling the border between North and South Dakota …

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August 31, 2023 /

Yesterday hit 93°F in Boulder during the early evening hours in what was our 29th 90-degree day of the year. Today with be our 30th. Tomorrow will be our 31st. Saturday will be the 32nd and Sunday the 33rd. Notice a trend here? A hot pattern aloft will stay the course over Colorado in the coming days with a ridge …

Premium BoulderCAST Daily – Wed 08/30/23 | A new heatwave begins NOW!

August 30, 2023 /

Today will look much like yesterday across the Front Range with sunny skies the main story. A ridge of high pressure continues to stretch across the Southwest, the central Rockies and into the Great Lakes keeping skies mostly clear over much of the nation right now, as seen in the GOES-East infrared satellite animation below. We've got two hurricanes to …

Premium BoulderCAST Daily – Tue 08/29/23 | Trending warmer & drier the remainder of the week

August 29, 2023 /

Today begins a trend towards warmer and drier weather for the Front Range as high pressure gets established over Arizona and slowly slides eastward through the rest of the week. A wiggly ridge axis exists across the Rockies this morning which will bring in warmer temperatures and subsident motion leading to calm weather overall. All is quiet across Colorado this …

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