BoulderCAST 2024 Holiday Crossword

4. Orographic UFOs
5. Can be Arctic, or alpine
7. Palmer Divide's little sibling to the north
11. Pinks, greens and purples, oh my!
12. Our summer rain culprit, usually
21. Most common source of Front Range Air Quality Alerts in summer
24. An 'explosive' low
26. Europe's NWS
28. Sol-Terra-Luna alignment
29. Rain, snow and everything in between
31. 1.15 MPH
32. Cause of alpine strawberry snow
33. Colorado is the third ranked state in the country for deaths caused by this
34. Move the "wrong" way, in terms of weather
35. Boulder's wettest month, on average
36. A persistent, expansive wall of damaging winds
40. When clouds become rainbows
42. Fabled source of the pre-winter storm smells
43. Denver's controversial climate site
45. Wispy ice, high above
46. Highpoint of Boulder County
47. The loudest wintry weather
49. Akin to evaporation, but for ice

1. Boulder County city that looks up to all others
2. A chilly, tropical Pacific
3. Boulder's all-time hottest temperature
6. The lesser used gas in weather balloons
8. Half light, half dark
9. Our biggest blaze
10. Baseline Road, cartographically
13. We mostly breathe in this
14. Inches of rain in Boulder during that fateful week in 2013
15. Boulder's snowiest month, on average
16. Baby rain
17. Cluster of runs from a single model
18. Between the Mountains & Plains
19. H2O, CO2, and CH4
20. The best upslope is _____ to the mountain barrier
22. BoulderCAST was born
23. The permanent resting place of the world's largest hailstone
25. Barely borders our state
27. This Colorado county averages the most number of tornadoes per year in the entire country
30. Study of weather
32. Gauges the breeze
37. Summer flashes, seen but not heard
38. Boulder's official climate station locale, at present
39. It doesn't really mean "snow eater"
41. Weather-related department at CU, abbreviated
42. Tiny snowballs raining down
44. What truly makes forecasting in Denver difficult
48. A Greek atmospheric jam