Ashortwave ridge will be drifting across the Rocky Mountains today bringing largely quiet weather to the Front Range. The 500mb height anomaly forecast map from the GFS model below shows that the center of the high pressure is located in northern Arizona with an axis extending northward into western Colorado. Elsewhere, a trough is coming ashore near Seattle --- this …

Ben Castellani

Ben Castellani

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.

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