Just before sunrise, low clouds arrived to the Front Range with a moist surge of easterly upslope flow early this morning. The current scene in Boulder is a gloomy one: You can see this development in the GOES-East nighttime microphysics animation below, with stratus clouds engulfing Boulder and Denver between 4 and 5AM (white shading). There are some pockets of …

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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