Category: Severe Weather (Page 16 of 22)

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

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.