Speaker 1: Our favorite chief meteorologist from Fox thirty one, Katievr.
Speaker 2: Dave Frasier. Hello, Dave, how are you, my friend?
Speaker 3: I'm doing great. How are you doing?
Speaker 2: I am doing just fine.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, I'm happy to announce we
Speaker 1: can stop paying attention to politics because the insane clown
Speaker 1: Posse has endorsed Kamala Harris, so obviously the race is over.
Speaker 1: I don't need to do any anymore of that, so
Speaker 1: we can talk about important things like the weather.
Speaker 2: Dave.
Speaker 1: I realize I'm supposed to be upset or something about it,
Speaker 1: about it being seventy five.
Speaker 2: Degrees today, but I do not hate this. How much
Speaker 2: longer of this? Glorious? Are we having.
Speaker 3: Several more days? Actually, all the way through Monday of
Speaker 3: next week, we're looking to be running above average. And
Speaker 3: by the way, I'm in your corner, I'm not upset
Speaker 3: the fact that the temperatures are running about ten to
Speaker 3: twelve to ten degrees above normal. We're not breaking records,
Speaker 3: which all are in the eighties. And it is nice.
Speaker 3: It's you know, it's that kind of fall warm. It's
Speaker 3: not summer hot, yep. And the evening the evenings are fantastic.
Speaker 3: Cools off quickly with the earlier setting sun, you got
Speaker 3: the overnight lows in the forties. You know, we haven't
Speaker 3: had that freeze yet, which we're looking at potentially next
Speaker 3: Tuesday night into Wednesday, we might be right there at
Speaker 3: thirty two degrees for the time this year. So we're
Speaker 3: talking an eye on that change coming up and the
Speaker 3: potential for maybe another shot of moisture. Very very dry
Speaker 3: here in October. So to be talking about getting a
Speaker 3: little moisture, whether it be a rain, rain, snow mixed,
Speaker 3: or even a little bit of heavy wet snow in
Speaker 3: a couple of spots is not a bad thing.
Speaker 1: No, we did get some good snow in the mountains,
Speaker 1: which is always you know, you always want to have
Speaker 1: a nice solid start because we're thinking about our snowpack here.
Speaker 1: And I guess Wolf Creek is opening this week. They
Speaker 1: got a ton of snow down there at Wolf Creek Pass,
Speaker 1: so they're opening.
Speaker 2: There was one I believe maybe this weekend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, yes, so, oh yesterday, so they're already opening today.
Speaker 2: Well that seems a little crazy.
Speaker 3: Well they got if you've been down to skied Wolf Creek,
Speaker 3: it's rugged skiing, it's good skiing, it's three up and down. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's yeah. And so they got twenty seven inches over
Speaker 3: five days, twenty two inches in a little over a day,
Speaker 3: and that was enough to get them the eighteen inch
Speaker 3: base that they need mid mountain to get people up
Speaker 3: in skiing, and some of the if you go on
Speaker 3: social media, you'll see some of the guys skiing and
Speaker 3: folks skiing down there, and it looks it's pretty good.
Speaker 3: And then for the North Central Mountains, places like Copper
Speaker 3: and Keystone and a Rapahole Basin and Loveland got anywhere
Speaker 3: from five to ten inches, and so that's a helping
Speaker 3: hand from other natures. They continue to run their snowguns
Speaker 3: in hopes of getting open soon.
Speaker 1: All Right, I got a question from the text line
Speaker 1: for Dave. Have we seen temperatures like this year September
Speaker 1: and October in the past pre global warming series, like
Speaker 1: fifty years ago? And I think they're kind of asking
Speaker 1: how common are these very warm September and octobers.
Speaker 3: I hadn't checked the fifty year record, but the way
Speaker 3: I tend to look at trends like this is are
Speaker 3: we smashing records left and right? And how old are
Speaker 3: those records, and as I just said a few minutes ago,
Speaker 3: we have not been breaking records here in September. Early
Speaker 3: September we had some warmer days in the nineties and
Speaker 3: we did break a few records. But even though we
Speaker 3: had at the beginning of the month in October we
Speaker 3: had temperatures in the eighties, we weren't breaking records. And
Speaker 3: while we've been in the seventies for pro long period
Speaker 3: and we'll stay in the seventies all the way through
Speaker 3: Monday of next week, we're just not breaking the records.
Speaker 3: So I think that should give you some historic perspective
Speaker 3: about how warm have we been compared to where the
Speaker 3: records are set.
Speaker 2: How are we doing drought wise around the state.
Speaker 1: I heard a report last week, and I want to
Speaker 1: ask this question first before we talk about how we are.
Speaker 1: We are one of those states like California. We're kind
Speaker 1: of perpetually in drought on and off cycle, are we not.
Speaker 2: I mean, we're a high desert climate for much of
Speaker 2: the state.
Speaker 3: Yes, we're a semi arid climate, which means we are
Speaker 3: you know, we depend a lot on our snow to
Speaker 3: fill our reservoirs. We depend on you know, a wet
Speaker 3: spring is certainly helpful during the growing season. We did
Speaker 3: get some beneficial rain early in the season until we
Speaker 3: hit June, July, August, September, October. Prior to that, the
Speaker 3: spring was in pretty good shape when we were head
Speaker 3: for the year, and then we dried out. The drought
Speaker 3: monitor comes out every Thursday, and the worst route in
Speaker 3: the state, and the entire state is not in droughts.
Speaker 3: A matter of fact, the San Juan Mountains southwest Colorado
Speaker 3: doesn't have any drought. They they've been doing very well.
Speaker 3: The worst rout is right in the foothills of Lharmer
Speaker 3: and Boulder County, just west of I twenty five and
Speaker 3: Metro Denver is in there, but not as deep in
Speaker 3: the drought as they are, and we've been struggling to
Speaker 3: get this year. There's no question about the problem with
Speaker 3: the drought monitor now, Mandy is we're in the kind
Speaker 3: of end of the season so everything is naturally dried out.
Speaker 3: We just don't look for that leg up right now.
Speaker 3: But we're hindering the winter and that can help to
Speaker 3: crush the drought in some places.
Speaker 1: Okay, we do have a couple of people on the
Speaker 1: text line asking about what are we going to have
Speaker 1: for Halloween? A Rod has been asking this too. He's
Speaker 1: got a big party, He's got all kinds of stuff planned.
Speaker 3: What are we looking at Halloween? Well, A Rod's party
Speaker 3: over the weekend is great. Any plans you have through
Speaker 3: the weekend, If you do have parties like kay Rod,
Speaker 3: you're fine. It's going to be in the seventies, mid
Speaker 3: seventies Saturday, seventies, upper seventies Sunday. We are tracking this
Speaker 3: incoming cold front. It looks to get us down into
Speaker 3: the upper fifties and by that time next Tuesday Wednesday,
Speaker 3: so you're talking the thirtieth, twenty ninth, and thirtieth of
Speaker 3: the month. The advertise around sixties, so it's more of
Speaker 3: a seasonal correction right now. We think it's just outside
Speaker 3: the seven day so we can't see too many specifics,
Speaker 3: but we think Halloween will be dry but a little
Speaker 3: bit cool, So it'll probably be in the mid fifties
Speaker 3: during the day and then for trick or treating hours,
Speaker 3: say between four or five o'clock till nine o'clock, probably
Speaker 3: slipping into the low forties towards the end of that timeframe,
Speaker 3: maybe the upper thirties. But it does look to be dry, all.
Speaker 1: Right, Dave Fraser at Fox thirty one. I don't have
Speaker 1: anything else for it. Oh wait, hang on, this may
Speaker 1: be the wrong question to ask. At the end of
Speaker 1: the segment, does Dave Fraser believe in climate change?
Speaker 3: We've talked about this time and time again. Yes, the
Speaker 3: climate has changed, but there's a bigger question beyond that
Speaker 3: that you and I have talked about. That becomes the
Speaker 3: question of you know what why riving factor? Why exactly?
Speaker 3: And that's where you get into the argument and it
Speaker 3: just goes down the rabbit hole very very quickly, because
Speaker 3: people have their own opinions of what. But yes, you
Speaker 3: can clearly tell as you look over the historical data
Speaker 3: and you look at the weather patterns and stuff, that
Speaker 3: there are other driving forces that can change climate. But
Speaker 3: remember this climate is cyclical and what the future holds
Speaker 3: is yet to be.
Speaker 1: Seen exactly, Dave Fraser, you can see them on Fox
Speaker 1: thirty one. We will talk to again week after a
Speaker 1: few more days of this glorious weather.
Speaker 2: You can just keep it here as long as you want.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll get you an updated. It times out perfectly
Speaker 3: next Wednesday. We'll be sitting right on top of that
Speaker 3: forecast for Halloween excellent.
Speaker 2: That's say Fraser David, I appreciate you. We'll talk to
Speaker 2: you next week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right,