The oven dial gets cranked up today across our region as a very warm airmass builds into Colorado from the Desert Southwest. The 500 mb map below shows the center of the high pressure near the Four Corners region this afternoon. The extent of the very warm air is highlighted in orange. The 700 mb temperature forecast from the GFS …

Ben Castellani

Ben Castellani

Ben grew up in southwestern Pennsylvania and holds both a bachelor's and a master's degree in Meteorology, the latter being from CU Boulder. His hometown received nearly three feet of snow from the Storm of the Century back in March of 1993, sparking his initial interest in impactful weather. Ben currently works on remote sensing and data analysis software at NV5 Geospatial Software in Boulder.

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