Speaker 1: The man who makes the weather. He cooks it up
Speaker 1: right there at Fox thirty one studio and then unleashes
Speaker 1: it on all of us day. Frazer, how you doing.
Speaker 2: It's my concuction contract contribution.
Speaker 1: There you go, there you go. Okay, let me just
Speaker 1: get this out of the way right now and ask
Speaker 1: the question that inevitably will be asked, Dave, how much
Speaker 1: longer do I have to water my lawn several times
Speaker 1: a week?
Speaker 2: Did Anthony just wink at you? He asked me the
Speaker 2: same question. He's struggling with moeing in the morning because
Speaker 2: we have these cool Chris mornings and you got a
Speaker 2: lot of dew on the grass and it's wet. Here's
Speaker 2: what I told him. And you know, September is not
Speaker 2: generally a wet month for us, So keep watering at
Speaker 2: least through the middle of the month, maybe the sixteenth
Speaker 2: or the twentieth, because if we do get dry later
Speaker 2: in the fall, we want to keep things going as
Speaker 2: much as we can right now. So I wouldn't give
Speaker 2: up on the watering. But yeah, if you're going to mow,
Speaker 2: mow in the afternoons, after the morning do kind of
Speaker 2: dries off. But everything is still looking great. Let's not
Speaker 2: shut things off just yet.
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, Dave, we went hiking down in
Speaker 1: Castlewick in State Park this past weekend and everything is
Speaker 1: still green. Normally this time of year it's all crunchy
Speaker 1: and brown. It was like lush down there. I was
Speaker 1: kind of surprise. I'm not gonna lie, so you know.
Speaker 2: Ahead, go ahead. I'm not gonna say it's interesting, because
Speaker 2: you know, I get viewer emails all the time about
Speaker 2: you know, we're on the air talking about, you know,
Speaker 2: record setting rain three times. It happened in August in
Speaker 2: Denver because the rain officially hit the censor at the airport.
Speaker 2: And I'll give you your email saying, well, you know,
Speaker 2: we must be in a rain shadow because I'm not
Speaker 2: getting it as much. And that's just the way it is.
Speaker 2: I mean, the rain has not been uniformed by any means.
Speaker 2: But where we've had beneficial rain, like Castlewood Canyon, the
Speaker 2: southern parts of the Metro Denver, in some areas the
Speaker 2: Northern Front Ranges had some decent shots. It really looks good.
Speaker 2: And so we want to maintain that as much as
Speaker 2: we can here for them, at least the next three
Speaker 2: to four weeks.
Speaker 1: All right, so what do the next three to four
Speaker 1: weeks look like? What are we looking at here?
Speaker 2: Same thing we talked about last Wednesday. It's the tail
Speaker 2: of the first half versus second half. So the thirty
Speaker 2: day outlook for the entire month of September, which again
Speaker 2: doesn't tell you anything about the day to day weather.
Speaker 2: It's yes, when we're done, will it be above normal,
Speaker 2: below normal? Will it be wetter or drier than normal?
Speaker 2: Right now, that thirty day out looks stayed the same.
Speaker 2: It's showing us being slightly warmer and slightly drier than normal.
Speaker 2: That we're only three days into the month. However, the
Speaker 2: first eight to fourteen days, so that includes our seven
Speaker 2: day forecast plus the next seven days takes us out
Speaker 2: to the sixteenth of September, and that pattern for the
Speaker 2: first half of the month shows us being wetter and
Speaker 2: cooler than normal. So you would think we've got to
Speaker 2: flip the script in the second half of the month
Speaker 2: end up being drier and warmer.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I'm going to tell you I've loved this
Speaker 1: past week. This week has been this is my favorite,
Speaker 1: which a Ron and I both want to know, Okay,
Speaker 1: because I feel like I can't remember last fall. Did
Speaker 1: we even have a fall? I mean, I don't remember fall,
Speaker 1: but fall's my favorite seat here, and I do feel
Speaker 1: like we kind of get you, like janked out of
Speaker 1: it every once in a while. What you've got to
Speaker 1: dry September on deck? But are we seeing anything in
Speaker 1: the you know that's going to indicate we're going to
Speaker 1: have like a super early snow. Where is that too
Speaker 1: far away to even begin to understand?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the long range models for the three
Speaker 2: months of September, October, November continue to lean to dry
Speaker 2: and warm. We've been battling that all year, but we've
Speaker 2: had some winning battles in there. For instance, like I said,
Speaker 2: August at I think nine days of measurable range, three
Speaker 2: of them were record setting. It was the third wettest
Speaker 2: August on record, again with the point being at the airport.
Speaker 2: For those totals of I think it was four point
Speaker 2: one two inches. We had already had some dostens of
Speaker 2: snow way up. High fee resorts are all announcing their timeframe,
Speaker 2: so they're looking at the pattern. What they're looking for
Speaker 2: right now is to get those overnight lows down so
Speaker 2: they can start thinking about running their snow guns and
Speaker 2: starting to build a base. That's still not going to
Speaker 2: happen for weeks, but the process is underway. And I
Speaker 2: heard from something I wish I could remember, the critter
Speaker 2: somebody that works for the forestry or something like that,
Speaker 2: that said that there's some critter that's up high in
Speaker 2: the mountains that tends to burrow itself and build its
Speaker 2: nest for the winter. They started noticing. No, it wasn't
Speaker 2: the marmot, it was something else. I wish I could
Speaker 2: remember it. But whatever this little creature was, somebody had
Speaker 2: noticed that they were starting to burrow and prepare for
Speaker 2: the winter earlier than they had seen. And you know,
Speaker 2: we hear about that folklore all the time. People are
Speaker 2: talking about the leaves changing in the mountains. That's not
Speaker 2: necessarily a sign of an early winter. That's more because
Speaker 2: of the drought conditions that it's out with. But overall,
Speaker 2: you know, September is our first measurable month for snow,
Speaker 2: and it's generally an inch in Denver. We can get
Speaker 2: bigger snowstormps in that we've certainly had them in our history.
Speaker 2: And I looked at the records. The last time we
Speaker 2: had one inch of snow in Denver was in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty it was exactly an inch. So for the last
Speaker 2: four years September has been dry for us. But again
Speaker 2: it's just the beginning of the snow season if you will.
Speaker 2: October can have wild swings. Still think it's one of
Speaker 2: my favorite months, September and October me too.
Speaker 1: I've got a weather question for you, Mandy, Please ask
Speaker 1: what causes dirt devils when there is no wind? And
Speaker 1: to be clear, I want to make sure I know
Speaker 1: what a dirt devil is. It's just like a little
Speaker 1: mini tornado of just dust, right, I mean it just
Speaker 1: maybe they come up a few feet, but they're not
Speaker 1: ever going to like go to the sky kind of tornado,
Speaker 1: just like a little baby tornado.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's a dust level basically dirt double dust level.
Speaker 2: I guess it depends how much dirt is in the air.
Speaker 2: But yeah, basically that doesn't have that doesn't come with
Speaker 2: a wind across the planes or like that. That's heating.
Speaker 2: So you have differential heating. So you've got a hot
Speaker 2: spot on the ground and the air starts to rise. Obviously,
Speaker 2: warm air rises, so you get the warm air rising
Speaker 2: and as it rises, it starts to spin up a
Speaker 2: little bit. They generally don't last long. But generally it's
Speaker 2: going to be in pockets where there's hot air that's
Speaker 2: building at the surface that wants to kind of release
Speaker 2: itself and rise up.
Speaker 1: Could it be a peka? Is that the animal that
Speaker 1: you are thinking of?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: No, they remain active all winter long, so that's not it.
Speaker 1: And somebody just suggested that when should people close down
Speaker 1: their pools?
Speaker 2: Dave, Well, that's for most hoas that's sailed over over
Speaker 2: Labor Day weekend. You know, I always I'm always a
Speaker 2: little frustrated the deck because we can have some great
Speaker 2: September weekends. Yeah in the eighties, and you want to
Speaker 2: go to the pool. But I understand the financial costs
Speaker 2: and everything like that, but what about people season. I
Speaker 2: think Labor Day is kind of dick. I mean, if
Speaker 2: you want to keep it going for a few more weeks,
Speaker 2: I don't think it's going to hurt. Well, obviously, what
Speaker 2: you want to watch out for would be dealing with
Speaker 2: any type of water, including your external pipes and all
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff for your sprinkler systems. You got
Speaker 2: to watch the overnight lows get high on the cold lows,
Speaker 2: and if they start to get you start to see
Speaker 2: our seven day popping up with some temperatures in the
Speaker 2: upper thirties, it's time. It's not to throw in the towel,
Speaker 2: but I still think if you have your own pool,
Speaker 2: you can probably get a couple more weeks out of it.
Speaker 1: Well, you know what, after those two weeks of super
Speaker 1: hot weather, my herb garden is going insane right now.
Speaker 1: So this weekend I got to figure out how to
Speaker 1: cut all this stuff back and dry it. So I've
Speaker 1: done it before, but not real successfully. But I'm determined
Speaker 1: this year to make the most of my hand I
Speaker 1: just so you know, Dave Frasier, my BlackBerry harvest came
Speaker 1: in yesterday and my big porch BlackBerry bush, and this
Speaker 1: year's harvest was a whopping four blackberries, the world's most
Speaker 1: expensive blackberries. My husband enjoyed all four of them in
Speaker 1: one setting. But there you go. It's time to start,
Speaker 1: you know, winding down the garden as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. It is. It's sad because you know,
Speaker 2: we could potentially set a record we won't know for
Speaker 2: another week or so of the earliest date of our
Speaker 2: last ninety degree temperature. So once we hit a week
Speaker 2: ago Friday, the rest of August was below average and
Speaker 2: we actually averaged down. So of all those hot nineties
Speaker 2: that we had in the middle of the month, we
Speaker 2: were averaging ahead. We thought maybe we'd get into the
Speaker 2: top twenty list for hottest August on record, and we
Speaker 2: did not. The last ten days of the month we
Speaker 2: had seventies and low eighties, and we averaged down. We
Speaker 2: were only about to little less than the degree over
Speaker 2: the average, and we didn't make the top twenty list.
Speaker 2: And so you know, those cool temperatures during the day,
Speaker 2: those morning lows down into the fifties, it's really been fantastic.
Speaker 2: Now I'm not going to stay I'm forecasting eighty eight tomorrow.
Speaker 2: That's a little too close for me to be, you know,
Speaker 2: copyacently saying we've seen our last ninety degree day, and
Speaker 2: there could be some days next week where we'll be
Speaker 2: knocking on that door. So I'm not going to say
Speaker 2: we're completely done with ninety degrees. But ninety degrees in
Speaker 2: September is not ninety degrees in August.
Speaker 1: Real quick, because we were out of time. When does
Speaker 1: this snoke go away? And obviously things are still on
Speaker 1: fire in the west slope. I don't think it's been
Speaker 1: as bad this year. But when do we see that
Speaker 1: wind shift?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well we the last two days the wind's been
Speaker 2: more northwesterly than straight out of the west. So I
Speaker 2: just looked at a clear satellite picture and I'm not
Speaker 2: noticing that in the air going across Colorado. Right now
Speaker 2: we get more of a westerly win. Some of that
Speaker 2: could transport back to our way, but right now, for
Speaker 2: today tomorrow at least, it's not going to be that case.
Speaker 2: All right. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Dave Frasier, our favorite meteorologist, you can see him and
Speaker 1: his colleagues gave out the most accurate forecast on Fox
Speaker 1: thirty one. Thanks man, We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 2: Thanks Maddie, all right, bye,