Boulder Weather Puzzle (2024)

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Across
  1. 4. Colorado is the third ranked state in the country for deaths caused by this
  2. 7. Baseline Road, cartographically
  3. 10. Our biggest blaze
  4. 13. Fabled source of the wintry smells
  5. 14. Denver's controversial climate site
  6. 15. Most common source of Front Range Air Quality Alerts in summer
  7. 18. Can be Arctic, or alpine
  8. 20. Move the "wrong" way, in terms of weather
  9. 21. Europe's NWS
  10. 23. It doesn't really mean "snow eater"
  11. 27. Tiny snowballs raining down
  12. 28. Barely borders our state
  13. 30. What truly makes forecasting in Denver difficult
  14. 31. 1.15 MPH
  15. 32. Baby rain
  16. 33. The permanent resting place of the world's largest hailstone
  17. 34. Between the Mountains & Plains
  18. 37. When clouds become rainbows
  19. 38. Wispy ice, high above
  20. 41. The lesser used gas in weather balloons
  21. 45. H2O, CO2, and CH4
  22. 46. A Greek atmospheric jam
  23. 47. Akin to evaporation, but for ice
  24. 48. Study of weather
  25. 49. Cluster of runs from a single model
Down
  1. 1. Boulder County city that looks up to all others
  2. 2. BoulderCAST began
  3. 3. Rain, snow and everything in between
  4. 5. Palmer Divide's little sibling to the north
  5. 6. You mostly breathe in this
  6. 8. A chilly, tropical Pacific
  7. 9. When Sol, Terra, and Luna align
  8. 11. A persistent, massive wall of damaging winds
  9. 12. Boulder's wettest month, on average
  10. 16. Boulder's official climate station, at present
  11. 17. The best upslope is _____ to the mountain barrier
  12. 19. A very explosive low
  13. 22. Month with the most snow, on average
  14. 24. Boulder's all-time hottest temperature
  15. 25. Summer flashes, seen but not heard
  16. 26. Weather-related department at CU
  17. 29. Highpoint of Boulder County
  18. 30. The loudest winter weather
  19. 35. This Colorado county averages the most number of tornadoes per year in the entire country
  20. 36. Orographic UFOs
  21. 39. Incehs of rain in Boulder during that fateful week in 2013
  22. 40. Cause of strawberry snow
  23. 42. Half light, half dark
  24. 43. Summer rain source, usually
  25. 44. Gauging the breezes