Speaker 1: Dave Frasier, Hi, Dave, how's your day? Good?
Speaker 2: Good snow afternoon to you. Love seeing this, big smiles
Speaker 2: on my face and yeah, storm doing what we thought
Speaker 2: it would do, and glad to see it.
Speaker 1: Well, how much longer are we going to get this?
Speaker 1: Are we going to be? Is it going to be
Speaker 1: snowing in the five o'clock traffic? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think so, especially from Denver I seventy to the south.
Speaker 2: But I think what you're seeing, if you've noticed the
Speaker 2: transition of the intensity of the snow from early this
Speaker 2: morning to now, it's a very light, more faint snow
Speaker 2: with you know, we'll get some additional light accumulation. So
Speaker 2: if you've gone out and shoveled and say, the last
Speaker 2: couple of hours, you're probably going to get another coating.
Speaker 2: I can see southern metro areas kind of where you
Speaker 2: are in the bunker and parts of Douglas County maybe
Speaker 2: getting another inch or a little more out of this.
Speaker 2: But we're already seeing drier air punching in the wind
Speaker 2: has gone to the north instead of northeast. Northeast is
Speaker 2: our classic upslope. That's what this storm was always predicted
Speaker 2: to be, and it performed just right now. We're getting
Speaker 2: a northerly wind that's starting to punch in dryer air,
Speaker 2: and so we'll see snow ending from north to south.
Speaker 2: But the travel advisories for Metro Denver, the winter weather
Speaker 2: advisories don't expire till six, So anybody listening, maybe that's
Speaker 2: thinking of running out or the evening drive, watch out
Speaker 2: for some slick spots, bridges, overpasses. My understanding, and I
Speaker 2: was not up at the crack of dawn, is that
Speaker 2: overall the main roads did well. I heard a rud
Speaker 2: throw out a tip of his hat to see dot,
Speaker 2: which I'm with him. Tend to be a little tough
Speaker 2: on them, but I think pavement temperatures may have helped
Speaker 2: us in this situation. Plus, this storm didn't really bring
Speaker 2: a crash of Arctic air. Temperatures have been right around,
Speaker 2: you know, twenty five twenty eight degrees all day long.
Speaker 1: So what are we looking at for the next few
Speaker 1: days this weekend?
Speaker 2: Then, well, so I have a small ten percent chance
Speaker 2: the mountains are going to get another round of robust
Speaker 2: snow Friday into Saturday. We're looking at another six to
Speaker 2: twelve interres. I'm sure they're just elated this storm and
Speaker 2: the next one coming because they've been craving Mother Nature's
Speaker 2: helping hand. So that's good news. But keep that in
Speaker 2: mind if you're planning on going up to the mountains
Speaker 2: to ski, it may be a little bit challenging. We
Speaker 2: may get a stray rain or snowsholler out of that
Speaker 2: on Saturday. But I will tell you the reason I'm
Speaker 2: loving seeing this is after tonight's storm wraps up, I
Speaker 2: can't find anything through the fifteenth of the month. And
Speaker 2: of course, you know it's December. Holidays are in sight,
Speaker 2: and everybody wants to see more of this. But for
Speaker 2: right now, this will have to do.
Speaker 1: What are our temperatures gonna do?
Speaker 3: I mean, are we gonna get enough of a warm
Speaker 3: up that this is gonna melt off pretty fast?
Speaker 1: Or we stuck with it?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, unfortunately, Yeah, I mean December snow it
Speaker 2: is a little tough. Not this early in the month.
Speaker 2: Christmas snow, late December snows, those tend to hang around
Speaker 2: a long time. You're dealing with a very low sung
Speaker 2: and angle. We don't have a great sun angle, but unfortunately,
Speaker 2: our forecast calls for us to get back into the
Speaker 2: low to me in upper fifties starting next week. So
Speaker 2: while it may not go away in a couple of days,
Speaker 2: next week, you'll probably watch it disappear.
Speaker 3: I live for the upper fifties like that. If I could,
Speaker 3: if I could dial up a temperature range, do you
Speaker 3: know what it would be? It would be like fifty
Speaker 3: two to sixty seven. That if I could create a
Speaker 3: climate zone with fifty two to sixty seven and sunshine.
Speaker 3: I forgot to say that. And sunshine, Yeah, that would
Speaker 3: be amazing.
Speaker 2: Forty five degrees at night to cool off and right
Speaker 2: around sixty five during the day. But as long as
Speaker 2: the sun is out at our altitude, I'm with you
Speaker 2: in that ballgame.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, I mean that's like the perfect perfect weather. Okay,
Speaker 3: let me see if we got I forgot to open
Speaker 3: up my finger. If you have weather questions, now's the
Speaker 3: time that you should text them. At five six six
Speaker 3: nine oh five six six nine oh somebody from Ohio.
Speaker 3: I was chatting with a friend from Ohio and they're
Speaker 3: already the dead Ohio sky has already set in. That's
Speaker 3: what we call it in our family. And you worked
Speaker 3: in Ohio. So what is it about the weather patterns
Speaker 3: in the Midwest, the clouds just hang around versus what
Speaker 3: we have here in Colorado, which is like a few
Speaker 3: crappy days and then we get another gorgeous, you know,
Speaker 3: blue sky.
Speaker 2: Mainly two things. One is elevation. Obviously at our elevation,
Speaker 2: the sun coming out, it's a little stronger, it's easy
Speaker 2: for it to road clouds. Tomorrow morning, we're going to
Speaker 2: have thick, dense fog north and east of downtown in
Speaker 2: the wake of this storm, but it will burn off,
Speaker 2: so we benefit from the higher altitude. And the other
Speaker 2: thing is we were semi arid climate, so the Midwest
Speaker 2: you're dealing with higher humidity, higher de points, more moisture
Speaker 2: in play. You know, you're feeding up from the Gulf
Speaker 2: of Mexico, the Eastern you know, the United States is
Speaker 2: feeding off the Atlantic. You got the Great Lakes, and
Speaker 2: so just the higher humidity can lead to you know,
Speaker 2: these gray kind of ugly days, and it once they
Speaker 2: set in, unless there's a storm that comes along with
Speaker 2: a wind event to stir that kind of low gray
Speaker 2: cloud deck, it just kind of hubvers. And I think
Speaker 2: I've told you the story here with you on KOA.
Speaker 2: Many times I worked in des Moines and we hadn't
Speaker 2: seen the sunshine. I think it was eighty hours or
Speaker 2: one hundred hours or something like that. So some guy
Speaker 2: who owned his own company put his employees on a
Speaker 2: plane and flew them up above the cloud deck just
Speaker 2: so they could dasp in the sun for about an hour,
Speaker 2: and then landed back into Moine. That's how bad that is?
Speaker 1: Fantastic? Oh, I love that.
Speaker 2: I think it was like five It was like five
Speaker 2: days without sunshine and the gloom had just set in
Speaker 2: and it was cold and just dreary. And so he's
Speaker 2: just like Booth, We're going up above the clouds.
Speaker 1: That is boss of the year right there.
Speaker 3: Somebody just said this Stave, would you ask Dave how
Speaker 3: many snowflakes it would take to create Frosty the Snowman. Now,
Speaker 3: I'm going to take this as they're asking how much
Speaker 3: more snow do we need before the kids can build
Speaker 3: a snowman? But if you want to expound on the
Speaker 3: actual amount of snow in the actual Frosty the Snowman,
Speaker 3: you can feel free to do that as well.
Speaker 2: It takes I would say that it depends what you're
Speaker 2: going for. You're going for a minuture one that you
Speaker 2: build on the table on the deck or are you
Speaker 2: trying to go for a full size I will say
Speaker 2: that the top of this snow is light. This isn't
Speaker 2: a heavy, wet concrete dickie yet in March and April.
Speaker 2: But the bottom layer because pavement temperatures weren't just warm
Speaker 2: enough certainly the weekend cold cool temperatures so that it's stuck.
Speaker 2: But the bottom does have a little more moisture in it,
Speaker 2: so if you reach down deep into the snow, you
Speaker 2: can make a pretty good snowball with this stuff, all right.
Speaker 3: Dave Frasier, Fox thirty one's chief media Oh wait, hang
Speaker 3: on Mayby. Last winter, it seemed that Weather Wednesday, Dave
Speaker 3: was often on your show on the biggest snow days
Speaker 3: of the week. And now we get our first big
Speaker 3: snowstorm on Weather Wednesday with Dave. Coincidence that from Andy Well, no,
Speaker 3: everybody knows Dave actually controls the weather, so I asked
Speaker 3: him to make a big weather event for Weather Wednesday.
Speaker 1: It's it's simple.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do remember last year it seems like every
Speaker 2: Wednesday we were in a pattern of about every three
Speaker 2: to four days, and the timing was like Wednesday Saturday, Wednesday, Saturday, Wednesday, Saturday,
Speaker 2: and that's when we got the storms. And this one.
Speaker 2: You know, we're late, and I know you got to
Speaker 2: get going. You know, we didn't get our first measurable
Speaker 2: snow two tenths of an inch on Saturday this past Saturday.
Speaker 2: It's the only measurable snow we've had. December usually brings
Speaker 2: us eight inches. We're running way behind. I think the
Speaker 2: airport this morning reported a little over two. By the
Speaker 2: time it's done, I'm hoping they're three to four. Gets
Speaker 2: us halfway to where we should be for the month.
Speaker 2: But we got a lot of work to do when
Speaker 2: it comes to snow. So enjoy this one. I think
Speaker 2: it played well, it cooperated. It was a good first
Speaker 2: snow legs of the season. Get used to it, get ready,
Speaker 2: and we hopefully can find you more in the coming days,
Speaker 2: especially as we get closer to Christmas.
Speaker 3: All Right, Dave, you get cracked in over there at
Speaker 3: Fox thirty one, That is Dave Frasier.
Speaker 1: All right, man, we'll talk to you soon.