Category: Winter Weather (Page 42 of 161)

These posts contain some discussion of the white stuff, whether it be mountain snow pack or a Front Range snowstorm.

This Week in Colorado Weather: January 8, 2024

Breezy conditions and chilly temperatures will kick off the week behind a departing winter storm which brought a thin blanket of snow to the Metro area last night. Highs below freezing on Monday will trend slightly warmer in the coming days, but with gusty winds remaining. The tail-end of the week will turn more active with a few chances at light snowfall. There are also signs in the extended that an Arctic airmass will ooze into the region during the upcoming weekend turning things even colder for us. Read on for more details

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Winter Weather Update: Another southern-track storm passes to our south Sunday night, windy & snowy impacts expected in the Metro area

All is quiet on Sunday, but that will quickly change after midnight Sunday night! The third southern-track storm system in five days will take a more favorable track for the Front Range, leading to a period of snow and gusty winds  in our area early Monday. While there is still some uncertainty in the exact outcome, we discuss the latest forecast including potential snow amounts and where blizzard conditions will unfold on Monday.

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December 2023 Graphical Weather Review: The most abnormally warm we’ve been since the lead up to the Marshall Fire

December 2023 was yet another warm month in Boulder, the same fate which has befallen four out of the last five months. Despite the lack of appreciable snow events, precipitation ended just a hair above normal for the month since December is typically one of our driest months of the year. Here’s a quick and colorful graphical recap of our weather during December and how it relates to climatology.

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Winter Weather Update: First southern-track storm (of several) turns things much colder on Thursday, but snowflakes will be hard to come by

The weather pattern is shifting as we speak across the West and with several southern-track storms set to impact our area in the coming week or so. The first arrives on Thursday, but unfortunately it is coming in a bit too far south with things largely bypassing the Denver Metro area. Still there will be some amount of wintry weather to end the week. Let’s take a look at the latest forecast for not only the storm knocking on the door, but the next one gearing up for late in the weekend.

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This Week in Colorado Weather: January 2, 2024

El Niño has yet to deliver any major storms to the Front Range this winter season but that could change heading into the first week or two of January as a more active southern storm track takes shape across western North America. Several systems will bring snow to Colorado, though the focus appears to be across the southern tier of the state rather than the Front Range. We discuss the notably variable forecast for the week ahead including several chances for snow in the extended.

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Premium BoulderCAST Daily – Wed 12/27/23 | The stalled-out, blizzard-inducing low pressure finally loosens its grasp on Colorado

The pesky, blizzard-inducing low pressure system is finally beginning to head east this morning and is loosening its grasp on eastern Colorado. GOES-East water vapor imagery from the last few days is remarkable for this system, showing an epic, multi-layered spiraling dry slot into the core of the storm! Blizzard Warnings have expired for the state, with just a few …

Premium BoulderCAST Daily – Tue 12/26/23 | Just gloomy around Boulder today — but high winds, snow and/or blizzard conditions possible in all directions

Conditions will be chilly, gusty, and, in some parts of the Metro area, snowy today as the big low pressure system in the Great Plains continues to intensify and wobble well to our east. Over the next 36 hours, this broad system will move only about 200 miles from Kansas into central Missouri. Eastern Colorado will remain in an area …

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