Speaker 1: Chief Meteorologist Dave Frasier. But first, Dave, did you hear
Speaker 1: what we were talking about right before the break?
Speaker 2: Did you? Oh? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And based on the way you just laughed, I know
Speaker 1: you have stories too, but you're not going to tell
Speaker 1: them on yourself because you don't have anonymity of the
Speaker 1: text line.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't know how to index them or put them
Speaker 2: in a catalog the pool for everything, which.
Speaker 1: Well, I think that you've got any story that starts
Speaker 1: with there was Goldschlager, or there was there was uh
Speaker 1: you know, like uh uh tequila, those go to the top.
Speaker 1: Any any story that starts with those two that goes
Speaker 1: to the top. All right, let's talk about weather for
Speaker 1: a moment, shall we.
Speaker 2: Uh this is I'll give you. I'll give you a story.
Speaker 2: Oh hit me just because remind you. As you were talking,
Speaker 2: I thought about watermelon and I don't know what a
Speaker 2: I don't know what a run story was, but you know,
Speaker 2: alcohol may have been involved. But we used to go
Speaker 2: to Fort Lauderdale all the time in Florida for spring
Speaker 2: because that was the thing back in the day. And
Speaker 2: we can go down there and you ever heard of
Speaker 2: the grease pig? Oh? Yeah. Yeah. So you take a
Speaker 2: watermelon and you just lather it up with vassiline and
Speaker 2: you toss it in the water, and the watermelon floats,
Speaker 2: and then you proceed to play football with a bunch
Speaker 2: of guys drinking all day. The watermelon's popping out all
Speaker 2: over the place. You're drinking all day in the water.
Speaker 2: You don't know you've consumed as much as you have,
Speaker 2: and so it's just one of those days, and the
Speaker 2: sunsets and all of a sudden you realize maybe you've
Speaker 2: had a lot to drink. Well, that one evening, we're
Speaker 2: staying at this hotel and I decided I'm getting up
Speaker 2: on the second floor that climbing down a palm tree
Speaker 2: would be fun. Oh no, it's not. No. The next morning,
Speaker 2: the cuts on my thighs and my legs were ridiculous.
Speaker 2: And that's when you wake up and go, huh, did
Speaker 2: I put a porcupine? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Did I put a porcupine in a headlock?
Speaker 2: Last night? What's to happen? Your quarterback? Of the watermelon's
Speaker 2: gone wrong? Exactly telling you if you've never played it,
Speaker 2: it is fun. Get a bunch of guys together, put
Speaker 2: a bottle to something, out to the side and have fun.
Speaker 2: It's a great time doing it.
Speaker 1: We have actually done this, only you cut a very
Speaker 1: specific hole in the watermelon. You then pour a couple
Speaker 1: of bottles of vodka orever clear if you have that
Speaker 1: into the watermelon. Then you recork the watermelon. Then you
Speaker 1: play with it so it all gets shake shaken around,
Speaker 1: and then you eat the watermelon and is infused with
Speaker 1: the liquor problems. I'm telling you, Oh, don't even get
Speaker 1: me started our hunch punch. Okay at parties, don't even
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 1: Okay, now, let's talk about weather now that we could
Speaker 1: do that. So right now, I actually am enjoying the
Speaker 1: heck out of this weather that we're having right now,
Speaker 1: but I'm also ready for sweater weather. Yeah, well you're
Speaker 1: going to get to sweatter weather. We want sweater weather.
Speaker 2: So, you know, I kind of figured we'd start talking,
Speaker 2: you know, with Labor Day coming this weekend, it's the
Speaker 2: unofficial end of summer, and meteorological summer ends on the
Speaker 2: thirty first of August, and so I'm sure everybody's wondering,
Speaker 2: you know, what does September and beyond look like? And
Speaker 2: it continues to be the same we've talked about week
Speaker 2: after week that the long range forecast continue to keep
Speaker 2: Colorado and Denver in the front range, specifically on the
Speaker 2: warm and dry side. So again that's warmer than and
Speaker 2: drier than average. Doesn't tell you anything about the day
Speaker 2: to day, but we had seen with the long range
Speaker 2: outlooks that June, July, and August have all come up
Speaker 2: a little warmer. July, interestingly enough, wasn't that much warmer.
Speaker 2: It was only six tenths of a degree warmer than normal.
Speaker 2: June was warmer, probably about five degrees, and August is
Speaker 2: trending warmer as well, so we could end up with
Speaker 2: what could be statistically the second warmest average summer temperature
Speaker 2: on record. But we'll have to wait a couple more
Speaker 2: days to get those final numbers. So it's not sweater weather,
Speaker 2: not anytime soon. But you know, the cooler nights are
Speaker 2: definitely with the shorter days coming.
Speaker 1: Well, and that's glorious. And I was talking to a
Speaker 1: friend of mine who lives in Florida and South Florida
Speaker 1: and it's still so hot all the time there and
Speaker 1: they never get the cool off. And I'm like, you
Speaker 1: know what, every day when I get up to walk
Speaker 1: my dog as the sun comes up, we have that
Speaker 1: nice like briskness to the air that I love, love, love. Now,
Speaker 1: what is in the you know, so we don't see
Speaker 1: anything coming our way in the next few weeks. There's
Speaker 1: nothing in the immediate longer term forecast that we need
Speaker 1: to be worried about. And do we need to just
Speaker 1: like water our trees and stuff as they get ready
Speaker 1: to hibernate themselves.
Speaker 2: Continue, continue through at least the end of September with
Speaker 2: your normal watering schedule that you do all summer long,
Speaker 2: because September can be a dry month and we still
Speaker 2: get the warm days in the sunlight. And actually your
Speaker 2: law and if it turned, the little bron's probably going
Speaker 2: to start to green up. With the shorter days and
Speaker 2: the cooler nights, you'll start to notice it growing a
Speaker 2: little more. So just maintain that for at least another month.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't give up on the season. Yet. You get
Speaker 2: into October and we start to see, you know, nips
Speaker 2: of cold that might be a concern for sprinkler systems
Speaker 2: and everything, then we could start talking about, you know,
Speaker 2: kind of the end of the season. But you're good
Speaker 2: for at least another month. And yeah, keep the watering
Speaker 2: schedule going about every three days is all you need.
Speaker 2: You don't need to overdo it and waste your money,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 1: So one last question, and that is it's a holiday weekend.
Speaker 1: What are we looking at this weekend? Day, Fraser?
Speaker 2: Pretty good. I mean we're gonna get in the low
Speaker 2: nineties today. You're gonna like tomorrow it'll be about eighty
Speaker 2: five sunny with a few afternoon clouds. Fantastic, in the
Speaker 2: upper eighties. Saturday. I think we could touch ninety degrees again.
Speaker 2: But again I stress at this time of the year,
Speaker 2: it's not the heat of you know, June and July,
Speaker 2: the temperatures go up very quickly in late August. We
Speaker 2: do have a small chance of a few showers in
Speaker 2: on Sunday and Monday. There might be one or two
Speaker 2: south of the city, so think of Castle Rock and
Speaker 2: Larkspur and up and over Monument Hill. Not a lot
Speaker 2: going on Sunday Monday. However, I have said this for
Speaker 2: the last few days, and we'll continue to tell people
Speaker 2: who are planning to be in the Colorado Mountains that
Speaker 2: rain chances are a little better there Saturday, Sunday and Monday,
Speaker 2: it'll be typical afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms. So
Speaker 2: there's a pretty chance if you're heading to the mountains
Speaker 2: you're going to bump into a shower or two over
Speaker 2: the holiday weekend.
Speaker 1: And more importantly, if you're planning on doing a big
Speaker 1: hike up the mountains, you're gonna want to start that
Speaker 1: real early, so you beat. Have you seen these stories
Speaker 1: that have come out the last couple of days of
Speaker 1: people getting left on the mountain, like there was a
Speaker 1: work retreat and a guy gets left on the mountain
Speaker 1: and he finally gets to the summit that a storm comes.
Speaker 1: He's not ready, I mean, ill prepared. People hiking is
Speaker 1: a disaster.
Speaker 2: You know, our meteorologist Chris Tomer has climbed every single
Speaker 2: mountain multiple times in Colorado and had slept on every peak.
Speaker 2: He slept on all the fourteen ers. He wrote a
Speaker 2: book about it, and he will tell you you've got
Speaker 2: to get going before sunrise. You've got the summit before
Speaker 2: the early morning, late morning at the latest, and get down,
Speaker 2: especially when you know there's a chance of storms on
Speaker 2: the forecast.
Speaker 1: Well, Dave Frasier, I love like I said, I'm enjoying
Speaker 1: the weather that we're having right now, so we can
Speaker 1: have this for a little while longer. I'm not ready
Speaker 1: for the first snowstorm. I have a story on the
Speaker 1: blog today about aspen's peaking. Are you guys reporting that
Speaker 1: they're not peaking yet? When to expect it? When are
Speaker 1: you guys looking at that yet? So our aspen peepers
Speaker 1: know when to do what they need to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we started looking at a fall color guide right
Speaker 2: around this time of the year. Some of it has
Speaker 2: to do with the changing seasons and the colder night.
Speaker 2: The other thing that can cause things to turn early
Speaker 2: up there is drought. So sometimes if we're in a drought,
Speaker 2: and we've seen that in Colorado, the season can peak
Speaker 2: earlier and and earlier. So those are things that will
Speaker 2: keep an eye. On Tomorrow's Thursday, we'll get an update
Speaker 2: on the drought monitor. I will tell you that the
Speaker 2: state as a whole, the mountains included, looks good. The
Speaker 2: problem area is the Front Range and Metro Denver. This Wow,
Speaker 2: it needs a little more moisture. But the mountains are
Speaker 2: actually looking good. Western slope looks good, Eastern plains look good.
Speaker 2: We're just struggling with a little bit here in the city.
Speaker 1: So even the southern mountains are good because there they've
Speaker 1: been the problem children for a long time.
Speaker 2: Lately, Yep, they're good. So I like where we are.
Speaker 2: You know, we've had a warm summer, but it's been
Speaker 2: in spurts, and I kind of like the way the
Speaker 2: summer's laid out. We had our problems with fires, We've
Speaker 2: had wet periods. We've had sprinkles of rain here and
Speaker 2: there to keep us from completely drying out. We do
Speaker 2: have some drought issues, but overall, I think the summer
Speaker 2: has gone back and forth enough that it's been decent summer.
Speaker 2: It hasn't been blazing hot, it hasn't been the washout
Speaker 2: there was a couple of years ago with all the
Speaker 2: severe weather. It's been a little of everything all summer long.
Speaker 1: I have an accusatory text message asked Dave Fraser when
Speaker 1: his vacation is over with and when you will return
Speaker 1: to the Channel two Fox thirty one studio. Have you
Speaker 1: been vacationing the nerve of you, Dave Fraser.
Speaker 2: I was off the end of last week and Monday
Speaker 2: of this show. I was actually on the air last night.
Speaker 2: I had to take my son back to Milwaukee, in
Speaker 2: which you guys just visited and drop him off for
Speaker 2: his final year of college, getting closer to getting them
Speaker 2: off the payrolls for a few days. But I am back,
Speaker 2: so all good, and I'll be here to get you
Speaker 2: through labor day weekends.
Speaker 1: Okay, one last question, because I love this question. Why
Speaker 1: do clouds sometimes look like they are all sitting on
Speaker 1: an invisible glass table. The tops will be all fluffy
Speaker 1: and look massive, but the bottom is flat, flat bottom
Speaker 1: clouds make your rock and brain go well, not sure
Speaker 1: if this has.
Speaker 2: Been asked, Yes, it has, and we talked about it.
Speaker 2: It's called the lifting condensation level. There's a line in
Speaker 2: the atmosphere at which the temperature above that will cause condensation.
Speaker 2: So below that line, the moisture is not condensing. Above
Speaker 2: that line, the temperature is at a threshold that the
Speaker 2: cloud starts to form from that flat bottom where that
Speaker 2: temperature line is, and then continues to bubble up above that.
Speaker 2: So the listener is right, it does appear to have
Speaker 2: like a glass bottom, like the cloud's literally sitting on
Speaker 2: a ceiling and then rise from there. And it has
Speaker 2: to do with where that temperature line is. The causes
Speaker 2: the condensation to kick in. All Right, Dave Frasier.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you next week now that you're finally
Speaker 1: back from your unending vacation.
Speaker 2: Just cappy Labor Day, folks. Don't do anything stupid with
Speaker 2: alcohol that got today.
Speaker 1: That's a Frasier