Happy New Year!  We begin 2020 with an overall pleasant day thanks to continued northwesterly downslope and a milder pre-frontal airmass being situated across all of eastern Colorado. It will be a day of transition, however, as unperturbed northwest flow morphs into a deepening trough across the central Rockies. The NAM 500mb height and vorticity animation below depicts this shift …

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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