Speaker 1: Dave Fraser, Fox thirty one meteorologist, How are you today, sir.
Speaker 2: I'm doing good. I'm doing good. I've been listening. I
Speaker 2: glad to hear that you reached out to your friends
Speaker 2: and family or whoever and got them to consider going.
Speaker 1: And they all have. Everybody on the West coast has relocated,
Speaker 1: and everybody on the East coast is ready. So everybody
Speaker 1: is as good as they can be in Florida right now.
Speaker 1: And so I want to ask you this is so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you an absurd question, Okay, And even
Speaker 1: as I ask it to you, I know as it's
Speaker 1: coming out of my mouth it's an absurd question. But
Speaker 1: going around the internet right now, Dave Frasier, there is
Speaker 1: all of this stuff about how the government is controlling
Speaker 1: the weather. Specifically, they made Helene go up the southeast
Speaker 1: United States right over the lithium mines. And that's I mean,
Speaker 1: the let's talk about government controlling weather, shall we, Dave?
Speaker 1: Where are we in that process?
Speaker 2: We're on the test pool of social with that. Let's
Speaker 2: be honest. I mean, listen, there's conspiracy theorists for everything.
Speaker 2: But if you're saying that any there's any way that
Speaker 2: we can control something the size of a Haleen or
Speaker 2: a Milton and share it or drive it or direct
Speaker 2: it in one direction or another. Uh, there's not a chance.
Speaker 2: There's just no there's no way. There's no way. So
Speaker 2: I'll I'll just leave that to the conspiratorists and those
Speaker 2: on social media to spread whatever they want to do.
Speaker 1: It's so Dave, It's just it shows that this isn't
Speaker 1: really about weather, but it shows that people are so
Speaker 1: distrustful of the government that they would rather believe that
Speaker 1: not only think about it like this. And this is
Speaker 1: what I said back to someone on social media not
Speaker 1: too long ago, who's actually a friend of mine, who
Speaker 1: posted this on Facebook, and I was like, stop doing this,
Speaker 1: just stop doing this. This makes you look stupid because
Speaker 1: you have to believe that not only does a government
Speaker 1: send a hurricane to kill hundreds of people in Helene,
Speaker 1: you also have to believe that they let farmers in
Speaker 1: the Midwest go through horrific droughts that destroy their crops,
Speaker 1: that allow hailstorms to happen that destroy those crops. So
Speaker 1: you have to believe that the government is so bad
Speaker 1: that they would let people starve and go out of business.
Speaker 1: And then destroy their homes and livelihood and interstate highways
Speaker 1: for what I mean, it's just so dumb. It's so dumb.
Speaker 1: Now I want to ask a follow up question though,
Speaker 1: because there have been efforts to try and control the weather,
Speaker 1: the Heart program in Alaska. I mean, these are documented
Speaker 1: scientific experiments trying to control the weather, but to my knowledge,
Speaker 1: they've not been successful in any way, shape or for right.
Speaker 2: Even cloud seating, while it does, while it is a thing,
Speaker 2: and it does they do do it here in parts
Speaker 2: of Colorado, the success rate is very, very low. So yeah,
Speaker 2: there's just not much you're going to do. I mean,
Speaker 2: just think about where we are, the size of the planet,
Speaker 2: the minuscule impact we could have in controlling the weather
Speaker 2: across the you know, across the planet, the strength of
Speaker 2: the sun, the power of the oceans. There's just no
Speaker 2: way that I could wrap my brain around that contributions,
Speaker 2: you know, cloud seating and stuff like that. Sure's it's
Speaker 2: one of the things that frustrates me the most about
Speaker 2: social media, and I tend to turn a deaf ear,
Speaker 2: if you will. I tend to do less and less
Speaker 2: on social media because of that. Yeah, it's just a
Speaker 2: lot of it's a lot of noise. And again we're
Speaker 2: off topic with weather, but it's a lot of noise.
Speaker 2: And I tell my two sons all the time, you
Speaker 2: know two things, stay away from Stay away from politics
Speaker 2: and religion unless you're comfortable discussing them with the people
Speaker 2: in front of you. Otherwise it just turns into a
Speaker 2: fight or an argument. And it's another reason why I
Speaker 2: don't go down the rabbit hole of global warming. You know,
Speaker 2: do I believe there has been you know, are we
Speaker 2: in a certain climate change right now? Certainly? I mean,
Speaker 2: look at just what's happened with Alene, look at what's
Speaker 2: happening with Milton. You can't argue with but you will
Speaker 2: get into an argument. There's just no right or wrong.
Speaker 2: The minute you go in one direction on either side
Speaker 2: of that conversation, somebody's coming at you from the other side.
Speaker 2: So the best thing for me to do is just
Speaker 2: quietly sit in the background and let people fight amongst themselves.
Speaker 1: That's a great strategy. Now, let's talk about our weather,
Speaker 1: which has been unseasonably warm. And I just said to
Speaker 1: a Rod, I'm actually enjoying this. I could lie to you.
Speaker 1: I just think it's so pleasant outside I know it's
Speaker 1: a little too warm for people, but it's beautiful outside
Speaker 1: even with the smoke. And when is this going to end?
Speaker 1: And are we going to have a warm Halloween or
Speaker 1: is that going to be our first big snow.
Speaker 2: So I agree with you and your assessment of it
Speaker 2: being you know, this type of warmth is not summer heat. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's just got that warm kind of wrap around you
Speaker 2: kind of feel during the day. But as soon as
Speaker 2: we get to those earlier sunsets, the temperatures drop au
Speaker 2: dramatically and you've got your cool, crisp nights. And that's
Speaker 2: the balance and the great part of September and October.
Speaker 2: We can have these warm days, but it's not the
Speaker 2: summer heat we are seeing, and it's not uncommon. We're
Speaker 2: getting later into the month of October, the sun's angle
Speaker 2: is getting lower, the days are getting shorter. So as
Speaker 2: I'm sitting here doing the forecast right now, one of
Speaker 2: the things we're seeing is two cold fronts coming our way.
Speaker 2: The first one comes on Friday, gets us out of
Speaker 2: the eighties and down into about the mid seventies. Nice refreshing,
Speaker 2: little change. Right now, Denver's average is about sixty eight degrees.
Speaker 2: There's a second cold front coming, so we'll one back
Speaker 2: up on Saturday into the low eighties. The second one
Speaker 2: comes in Sunday. That one looks to have cool enough
Speaker 2: air behind it that it will sit and stay. So
Speaker 2: our forecast is actually going to be a mix of
Speaker 2: upper sixties, more seasonal readings starting early next week, and
Speaker 2: some low seventies. But right now, once we get beyond
Speaker 2: Saturday's eighty degree temperature, I don't see eighties coming back
Speaker 2: at this point, within at least the next ten days. However,
Speaker 2: we do look to stay dry. That part of the
Speaker 2: equation is not going to change.
Speaker 1: So the we're not even I mean I don't even
Speaker 1: have to bring my plants in from outside yet. We're
Speaker 1: not even looking at that, like we're not even sniffing
Speaker 1: our first freeze yet.
Speaker 2: No. And I heard you and a Rod talking about
Speaker 2: the sprinkler system. I know you've got yours planning. A
Speaker 2: lot of people like you have them scheduled out ahead
Speaker 2: of time, and it's gonna they're gonna come and shut
Speaker 2: them off whenever, and you're okay with your long going dormit.
Speaker 2: It is that time of the year anyway. Your grass
Speaker 2: is probably looking green like a Rod talked about. I
Speaker 2: did chastise him about spending too much money and throwing
Speaker 2: must st Yeah, yeah, just throwing money away. Listen, your
Speaker 2: grass looks green and it's great. It's because of the
Speaker 2: cool Chris Knight. But it's not growing like it does
Speaker 2: in the summer. So you should be reducing your water dramatically.
Speaker 2: You should not be watering as much. Save the money,
Speaker 2: put it in your pocket. Don't worry about blowing your
Speaker 2: sprinklers out to your seyet if you don't want to,
Speaker 2: because your trees and your shrubs could use a drink.
Speaker 2: But keep an eye on the forecast to that first
Speaker 2: shot at fleezing temperatures, and that's when you're going to
Speaker 2: want to start. And I will tell you that's not
Speaker 2: for the next ten days, so you can leave them
Speaker 2: on if you've got them scheduled, like manager that have
Speaker 2: blown out, blown out and call it a season. All right.
Speaker 1: So let me ask you this question from a texter.
Speaker 1: I gotta find it because a lot of texts have
Speaker 1: come in now. It says, please ask Dave. Is this
Speaker 1: a warm pattern going so late, the new normal going forward,
Speaker 1: or just a random off year. I mean, we kind
Speaker 1: of talked about. I'm with you, it's apparent to me
Speaker 1: the earth is warming right. The underpinnings will leave to
Speaker 1: others to discuss right now, But is this going to
Speaker 1: be our new normal? Are we going to have warm falls?
Speaker 1: Or is it too soon to tell?
Speaker 2: You know what we have seen. I think what we
Speaker 2: need is a larger database to look at it to
Speaker 2: see if we can determine whether it is a new
Speaker 2: due to climate change, and whether it's new or not.
Speaker 2: I think we would need probably maybe ten years worth
Speaker 2: of records. We had seen some warm Septembers and Octobers
Speaker 2: of late. We've also noticed in the last couple of years,
Speaker 2: and you may have noticed this as well, that March
Speaker 2: and April we always tout as our snowiest months, but
Speaker 2: I think in the last six years that'd be a worry. Yeah,
Speaker 2: has outdone March as the snowiest month. So could that
Speaker 2: signal the change in kind of the maybe a slight
Speaker 2: shift in the seasons where fall hangs or summer goes
Speaker 2: a little later and winter starts a little later and
Speaker 2: it ramps up and then spring comes. I think we
Speaker 2: need a bigger database to be able to really be
Speaker 2: able to say with any kind of concrete evidence that yeah,
Speaker 2: we might be seeing as shift. But remember that the
Speaker 2: climate is cyclical. We know that over the duration. And
Speaker 2: while we've had records, for instance here in Denver, going
Speaker 2: back to eighteen seventy two, I heard you talking earlier,
Speaker 2: there are things that we can't compare before we had records.
Speaker 2: For instance, you mentioned the mill of bars for low
Speaker 2: pressure as it relates to hurricanes. We didn't even start
Speaker 2: keeping those records till nineteen seventy nine, so our database
Speaker 2: is not very deep when it comes to the history
Speaker 2: of weather and climate on this planet.
Speaker 1: All right, So that is I have nothing to add
Speaker 1: because I think you're right. So we'll just leave it
Speaker 1: at that. What is our immediate forecast before we let
Speaker 1: you go?
Speaker 2: Eighties today? There's a little smoke in the air, not
Speaker 2: in Denver. We've got beautiful air from Denver to the south,
Speaker 2: and you should get into the northeast corner, some of
Speaker 2: that smoke should lift out. We're Sunday and dry again.
Speaker 2: I think we're about eighty four tomorrow. I think we're
Speaker 2: seventy four on Friday. I think we're eighty one eighty
Speaker 2: two on Saturday, and then I've got probably around seventy Sunday,
Speaker 2: upper sixties, Monday seventy one, seventy two, just about every
Speaker 2: day next week, and your overnight lows here's the key,
Speaker 2: may get down a couple of mornings into the upper thirties.
Speaker 2: Not cold enough to be worried about sprinklers, but maybe
Speaker 2: a little cross on the pumpkin in a few places.
Speaker 2: All right, sweater weather, a.
Speaker 1: Rod, A little frost on the pumpkin almost sounds dirty,
Speaker 1: Dave Fraser, I'm just like.
Speaker 2: Dave ayrod.
Speaker 1: Once again, no snow on Halloween.
Speaker 2: Right as of right now, the fourtecast continues to look
Speaker 2: dry and warmth for the month. We're right about a
Speaker 2: nine degree average above for the month of October.
Speaker 1: All right, BOK thirty one, Chief Meteorologist, Dave Fraser. I
Speaker 1: appreciate you. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 2: The same back at you, Thank you, thanks sing