A quiet day once again. The atmospheric pattern today is provided below in the 500 mb absolute vorticity plot. Zonal (westerly) flow is present across much of Colorado today. That will spell out another dry day for the Plains. However, mountain snow will be the norm to our west as west-northwest winds embedded in a weak shortwave today/tonight touches off …

Andy

Andy

Born and raised in St. Louis, Andrew obtained a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from the University of Colorado in 2015. From 2015 to 2020, he worked remotely in Boulder as an atmospheric scientist with NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Miami. Andy is now a full-time meteorologist.

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