What was it like forecasting Tropical Storm Isaias as it made landfall in North Carolina? How has a developing La Nina influenced monsoon season so far this summer? Why does the United States Air Force primarily rely on a weather model from the United Kingdom? Listen to find out!
Author: BoulderCAST Team (Page 33 of 47)
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July 2020 was characterized by a late-arriving monsoon leading to one of the driest Julys on record in many cities, as well as fairly hot weather across the Front Range much of the month. Here’s a quick and colorful recap of our weather during July and how it relates to climatology.
Will July 2020 be Boulder’s driest on record? Now that the monsoon has finally begun in Colorado, will it last? How does lightning form and what are the ways we measure it? Listen to find out!
Hooray! Monsoon season has just begun and the beneficial rains are already on the way to Colorado! We take a look at the current monsoonal pattern, the cool and wet forecast for the next five days, and why we think the rainy pattern won’t last long.
What have we been up to in the four years since our last podcast? Do we expect to see any changes from the hot and dry summer we’ve had so far? Where is the monsoon? Why are Colorado’s cold fronts unique compared to the rest of the country? Listen to find out!
⦁❶⦁ Extremely dry air has overtaken the area today from the west
⦁❷⦁ Hot & dry will be the headline through Saturday
⦁❸⦁ Highs in the middle 90’s today with lots of sun
⦁❹⦁ Tropical Storm Cristina has formed off the western coast of Mexico and will help bring moisture northward to Colorado this weekend
June 2020 may have seemed like another hot mess of a month, and well, it mostly was. However, it had plenty of other memorable moments, too. Who can forget the historic derecho? How about the half foot of snow that fell in the Mountains in the middle of the month? Here’s a quick and colorful recap of our weather during the month of June and how it relates to climatology.
Colorado Monsoon Update: Southern portion of the state in severe drought, the monsoon may be delayed
Have you noticed the drop in visibility across the Front Range over the last few weeks? This haziness is actually smoke from a handful of wildfires burning hundreds of miles to our southwest. This may only be a taste of things to come later this summer as parts of southern Colorado and the Intermountain West have recently shifted into the penultimate drought classification. We provide an update on the hydrological situation and explain why we believe the monsoon will arrive late to Colorado this summer.
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