August 2020 in Colorado was headlined by brutal heat, expanding drought, new massive wildfires, thick smoke, and poor air quality. Here’s a quick and colorful recap of our weather during August and how it relates to climatology.
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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.
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.
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
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.
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 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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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.
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BoulderCAST Daily – Fri 04/04/25 | Areas of light snow today and this evening with highs in the 30s
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BoulderCAST Daily – Wed 04/02/25 | A cool & quiet day between systems, but two rounds of snow are brewing to end the week
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BoulderCAST Daily – Tue 04/01/25 | Gusty winds with spotty rain/snow showers, wind-blown snow will create difficult travel in the Mountains through tonight
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