Category: Severe Weather (Page 10 of 16)

The posts contain discussion of severe weather in our region, including forecasts, outlooks, and recaps of events involving large hail, damaging winds, and tornadoes.

This week in Colorado weather: May 17, 2021

May 17, 2021 / Ben Castellani

Another week in May, another series of slow-moving spring storm systems for Colorado! The forecast Monday through Wednesday will be cool and gloomy with daily chances for showers and thunderstorms with even the threat for small hail and locally heavy rainfall. After the one nice day of the week on Thursday, another storm will approach late in the week bringing the chance of rain again alongside somewhat cooler temperatures. Read on for our complete outlook of the unsettled stretch ahead.

Forecast Update: Severe thunderstorms possible Sunday afternoon, soaking rain and Foothills snow Sunday night into Monday

May 2, 2021 / Ben Castellani

After our first real taste of summer the last few days, the weather will revert to more seasonal conditions Sunday into Monday. For Front Range Colorado in early May, that means severe weather, soaking rainfall and snow in the higher terrain. Let’s take a look at the latest on the stormy, soggy and snowy weather about to unfold!

This week in Colorado weather: July 27, 2020

July 27, 2020 / Andy

We continue the cool, monsoonal stretch with 80’s for the majority of the week. We are watching a weak system to affect northeast Colorado through Thursday, bringing our best chance of storms on Tuesday. Will the 90’s rear their ugly head for the first weekend in August? We discuss this and more in our weekly outlook.

Front Range and Boulder Weather Recap: June 2020

July 2, 2020 / BoulderCAST Team

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.

Saturday’s historic Colorado “derecho” wind event was one for the record books

June 9, 2020 / Ben Castellani

Were you caught off-guard by the historic wind storm that swept across Colorado on Saturday? This type of widespread, damaging wind event is known as a derecho. What transpired on Saturday was the first in recorded history to impact Boulder and Denver. We take a look at the low pressure that caused the event, the astonishing wind reports from across the area, and discuss why this may have been the first and last derecho we ever experience.

Front Range and Boulder Weather Recap: May 2020

June 2, 2020 / Ben Castellani

May 2020 had pockets of interesting weather mixed in with atypically longer dry periods. Here’s a quick and colorful recap of our weather during the month of May and how it relates to climatology.

This week in Colorado weather: May 18, 2020

May 18, 2020 / Andy

Thanks to the interplay between a potent trough and ridge, our temperatures will soar into the 80’s to start the third week of May, followed by a late-week “cool” down. Weather stays overall dry but there is some severe weather potential to speak of for eastern Colorado.

With severe weather behind us, the extended forecast turns peaceful

September 12, 2019 / Ben Castellani

Damaging hail fell across northern portions of the Metro area Wednesday evening. The storm system responsible is already out the door, with a lengthy period of sunshine about to overtake our forecast.