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Front Range Snowfall Totals: December 9-10, 2024

December 10, 2024 / BoulderCAST Team

A short-lived period of light to moderate snowfall accompanied the passage of a quick-moving shortwave disturbance Monday evening, mostly impacting the southern and western Metro area. We briefly review the snowfall totals across the region.

Premium Weather Quiz: What does a projected weakening Polar Vortex mean for Colorado?

March 25, 2020 / BoulderCAST Team

BACKGROUND: The term Polar Vortex is often used in an inaccurate way by the weather media primarily across the East Coast and Great Lakes. The over-hyped Polar Vortex is a permanent feature of the atmospheric circulation over the North Pole. Far from the equator and blanketed in complete darkness during the winter months, the Polar Vortex contains the Northern Hemisphere’s …

Premium Weather Quiz: What causes the annual cycle in atmospheric CO2 concentrations?

March 26, 2019 / Ben Castellani

BACKGROUND: About ten years ago, I interned as a meteorologist for the SoyFACE project at the University of Illinois (which is still ongoing today!). The goal of SoyFACE is to discover the effects of atmospheric change on Midwestern crops and find solutions that will lead to the crops being better adapted in the future. This included growing acres of soybeans from seed to harvest while …

Weather Quiz Was It Rime Ice or Hoar Frost?

March 5, 2019 / Ben Castellani

This week’s weather quiz topic examined the cause of the glaze of ice that formed on the trees on February 27th. Read on for some background information, the quiz results, and a deep dive into the answer.

Premium Weather Quiz Very Cold Air & the Impact on the Stratosphere

February 7, 2019 / BoulderCAST Team

BACKGROUND: Weather headlines this week are dominated by the historic Arctic air surging southward into the Midwest and Northeast. Some areas will be seeing their coldest temperatures in more than 20 years! The GFS 800 mb temperature map below shows where the coldest air is currently located. A property of cold air which you may not have considered is how dense it is …

Weather Quiz: Forecasting Snowfall on New Year’s Eve

January 2, 2019 / BoulderCAST Team

This week’s weather quiz topic was snowfall forecasting. Read on for some background information, the quiz results, and a deep dive into the answer. Continue reading

Premium Weather Quiz: Cold Air Advection

December 14, 2018 / BoulderCAST Team

BACKGROUND: This week there is an active storm track laying siege to the western United States. A weak system is moving across Colorado on this Tuesday, with a stronger storm now heading ashore into the Pacific Northwest. This second storm will bring a potent cold front through the Front Range Wednesday evening around sunset. Meteorologists often use a quantity called temperature advection to …