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John Ensworth

John Ensworth works from Longmont as the Principle Investigator for the NASA Science Mission Directorate Earth and space science education product review through the IGES (The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies – www.strategies.org). He is in his 14th year running this review. He is an astronomer (from the 2nd grade onward) and became a meteorologist (in the 5th grade) when a thunderstorm in Arizona rained on his telescope when the weather service had only forecasted a 10 percent chance of rain. He has college degrees in physics and astronomy and climatology and a graduate degree in meteorology and earth science. He lectures at the Little Thompson Observatory in Berthoud, the Estes Park Memorial Observatory in Estes Park, and for a number of online universities. He built and runs a backyard observatory near Pace and 17th in northeast Longmont where he has lived for 8 years with his wife, daughter, son, and two cats. Invitations to open house nights at this observatory, LTO, and EPMO will be posted with future discussions when they are scheduled. Forecasting severe weather and snow amounts via text lead to this column. He began texting friends about the weather right after the September 2013 flood. The readers of this column will, hopefully, keep him honest in what he "thought" he had forecasted for "the most recent" storm.

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Recent Work by John

The Front Range Forecast: Still Continued Calm + Heat

The Front Range Forecast: Still Continued Calm + Heat

Quiet late summer weather this week with very warm temperatures.
Tue Update The Front Range Forecast: More cold fronts and rain

Tue Update The Front Range Forecast: More cold fronts and rain

More cool air brings in showers Thursday and Friday.
The Front Range Forecast: More quiet summer weather

The Front Range Forecast: More quiet summer weather

Hot, above normal summer temperatures with few afternoon storms. A cold front is in our future.
Sun Update: Front Range Forecast: Storms now, summer this week

Sun Update: Front Range Forecast: Storms now, summer this week

Storm chances for one more day, then summer weather returns.
Sunday Update The Front Range Forecast: Heat and a few storms

Sunday Update The Front Range Forecast: Heat and a few storms

Temperatures above normal with small afternoon storm chances. A Colorado summer.
Tuesday update: The Front Range Forecast: Severe still!

Tuesday update: The Front Range Forecast: Severe still!

Severe weather again today then dry.
Sat UpdateThe Front Range Forecast: Monsoon and severe again

Sat UpdateThe Front Range Forecast: Monsoon and severe again

Summer heat, 'monsoon' storms. Some severe weather again.
Mon Update:The Front Range Forecast: Heat with afternoon storms

Mon Update:The Front Range Forecast: Heat with afternoon storms

A ridge brings heat and summer pattern moisture.
Sun update:The Front Range Forecast: Peak heat and heat advisory

Sun update:The Front Range Forecast: Peak heat and heat advisory

Dry heat begins.
The Front Range Forecast: A more normal summer

The Front Range Forecast: A more normal summer

Severe weather on the plains east of I-25, typical summer weather for everyone else.