Category: Weather in the News (Page 6 of 15)

These posts cover interesting weather phenomena from around the world, and won’t be specific to Boulder County. However, Earth is very diverse in the world of weather, so you will surely learn a thing or two.

Front Range and Boulder Weather Recap: July 2020

August 4, 2020 / BoulderCAST Team

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.

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.

Colorado Monsoon Update: Southern portion of the state in severe drought, the monsoon may be delayed

July 1, 2020 / BoulderCAST Team

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.

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.

Boulder is now vying for the all-time seasonal snowfall record, Denver not so much

April 15, 2020 / Ben Castellani

Boulder picked up nearly 19″ of snow from the cluster of storms earlier this week and now has a very good chance of breaking its century-old seasonal snowfall record. We discuss why Boulder has seen so much more than Denver this snow season, and also comment on our next winter storm knocking on the door Wednesday night into Thursday.

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March 25, 2020 / BoulderCAST Team

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As of February 11th, Boulder has already surpassed its normal winter snowfall total 😲

February 11, 2020 / BoulderCAST Team

With the conclusion of last night’s quick-hitting snow event, our fourth in just the last eight days, Boulder has now officially eclipsed the typical amount of snow that falls in an entire season, and we’re not even half way through the month of February! We take a look at how this fits into Boulder’s history, what it might tell us about the potential for snow the rest of the winter, and give a quick and dirty forecast for our next chance of snow coming on Wednesday.

Barely any ice is covering the Great Lakes at the end of January!

January 22, 2020 / Ben Castellani

It has been an extraordinarily warm winter thus far for much of United States, eastern Colorado included. The lack of extended cold has kept the surface of the Great Lakes largely ice-free so far, which is quite atypical. We discuss the implications this can have on regional weather and how it relates to our warming climate.