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!
Show highlights include:
- Intro
- Hosts: Andy & Ben
- General weather discussion [Timestamp 9:42]
- Another hot and mostly dry week
- The monsoon finally begins in Colorado!
- Check out the companion blog post
- Cooler next several days, but the monsoonal flow won’t last
- A new data product on our site: Actual Feel Temperature
- The tropics are heating up: a slew of new tropical cyclones
- Weather Topic: Lightning [Timestamp 43:15]
- What causes lightning?
- How do we detect it?
Addition links mentioned or discussed:
- Climatology of precipitation by month in Boulder
- An upcoming replacement for heat index, the wet bulb globe temperature
- Lightning filmed at 103,000 frames per second (Planet Slo Mo)
- BoulderCAST post about the new GOES-17 satellite from early 2019
- Detecting lightning with NOAA’s Geostationary Lightning Mapper on-board GOES
