Speaker 1: It is time to do what we do every Wednesday,
Speaker 1: which is take your weather questions via the Common Spirit
Speaker 1: Health text line at five six six nine oh with
Speaker 1: our favorite meteorologists That my friends would be Dave Frasier
Speaker 1: from Box thirty one.
Speaker 2: How you do it, Dave still favorite? After all these
Speaker 2: rainy days, I'll take that, you know what.
Speaker 1: I got to tell you, I was ready for a
Speaker 1: break in the weather, though, Dave. I mean it was
Speaker 1: just I'm kind of I was done with the heat.
Speaker 1: I'm not naive to think that we're totally done with summer,
Speaker 1: but this has been a nice break for me anyway.
Speaker 3: I've enjoyed the cloudy days.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think it was welcome there. We had
Speaker 2: gone almost two weeks with ninety degree temperatures and then
Speaker 2: we got the break starting over the weekend, and of
Speaker 2: course the last few days in the seventies, and that
Speaker 2: trend's going to continue. We might touch eighty degrees one
Speaker 2: or two days going into the holiday weekend, but right
Speaker 2: now our average is eighty six. We don't even have
Speaker 2: an average temperature, so we're going to stay cool. And
Speaker 2: there is a soba lining, as I always say, and
Speaker 2: it is been the moisture yesterday or that rain along
Speaker 2: the Northern Range and over the Eastern Plains hit the
Speaker 2: censor at DIA record rain total for the day yesterday
Speaker 2: on the twenty six. So that's the good news, right,
Speaker 2: is the break in the heat, but the moisture, the
Speaker 2: higher humidity kind of reducing the fire risks, maybe helping
Speaker 2: the western slope a little bit with drought conditions. This
Speaker 2: is not a drought busting rain for them. They got
Speaker 2: a lot of work to do. But any moisture is welcome,
Speaker 2: I agree.
Speaker 3: And how are things going?
Speaker 1: You know, we got the big fire happening on the
Speaker 1: western slope. Are they getting any of this rain? I
Speaker 1: know we're getting it on the Front Range, But what's
Speaker 1: happening over there? And what are the immediate weather impacts
Speaker 1: for that situation.
Speaker 2: They have been getting some, they haven't been getting a lot.
Speaker 2: In other words, it's not anything at this point that's
Speaker 2: going to squash the fire. Unfortunately, when you look at radar,
Speaker 2: most of the better rain is focused towards the eastern
Speaker 2: half of the state. We just have a little more
Speaker 2: higher humidity here. We've got a nice east southeasterly wind
Speaker 2: which is tapping into Gulf of Mexico moisture. There is
Speaker 2: some monsoon moisture coming up and out of the south
Speaker 2: and west. But as I look at the radar right now,
Speaker 2: it's been the same for the last three days. There's
Speaker 2: scattered showers over the west, but where the Lee Fire
Speaker 2: is closer to Meeker, they're getting some light showers. But
Speaker 2: the heavier rain is just now building over the Continental
Speaker 2: Divide west of Fort Collins, and then that's what will
Speaker 2: spread over the east. So if we could flip it
Speaker 2: and point it the opposite direction, I think it might
Speaker 2: be more helpful. But they're getting some they're getting some relief. Listen,
Speaker 2: even lower temperatures, a lower cloud deck, and higher humidity
Speaker 2: else in containing and fighting those fires.
Speaker 3: All right, that's good news, I guess. So what are
Speaker 3: you expecting? What do we got coming up?
Speaker 1: You know, I obviously I'm not asking for an exact forecast,
Speaker 1: but what's your general thoughts about the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: So I looked as I always do, and the weather
Speaker 2: pattern through our forecast for the next seven days does
Speaker 2: include below normal temperatures and I don't have a dry
Speaker 2: day in the forecast. Now I will underscore that Tomorrow
Speaker 2: I think looks like today. I think Friday looks like today.
Speaker 2: With the timing and the chains for showers and thunderstorms,
Speaker 2: we stay close to eighty degrees seventy nine eighty degrees.
Speaker 2: Some of it could be heavy as they're kind of
Speaker 2: slow moving. Saturday, I think is very similar as well,
Speaker 2: may only be in the mid seventies. So for the
Speaker 2: holiday weekend, Saturday is your web day. Now, Sunday and Monday.
Speaker 2: Between you and me, Mandy, I'm doing a cya ten percent.
Speaker 2: I think both days are actually okay. I don't think
Speaker 2: there's a lot. I don't think there's a lot going on.
Speaker 2: I think the foothills could see a couple of showers.
Speaker 2: I think the Palmer Divide south of Denver could, But
Speaker 2: I think the vast majority of the front range of
Speaker 2: northeast Colorado may get through Sunday Monday without seeing the storms.
Speaker 2: And that's your allow of temperatures to get back into
Speaker 2: the low eighties. And then the wet pattern comes back
Speaker 2: after that and we get back into the upper seventies
Speaker 2: as we get to Tuesday and Wednesday next week. Now,
Speaker 2: the long range outlook for eight to fourteen days, which
Speaker 2: is the third through the ninth of September is cooler
Speaker 2: and wetter than normal, So that would tell you the
Speaker 2: wet pattern that I'm talking about is coming back. However,
Speaker 2: in contrast, one month outlook for all of September is
Speaker 2: warm and drier than normal, So that would tell me
Speaker 2: that the second half of September might be a little
Speaker 2: warmer and drier than the start of the month, right,
Speaker 2: equalized things.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm not getting excited about this nice cold break,
Speaker 1: because I know they're gonna have another couple of weeks
Speaker 1: before I can put on my winter clothes away. Here's
Speaker 1: the question for you, what is and causes a haboob
Speaker 1: storm that's appearing in Arizona. I spoke with my niece
Speaker 1: in Phoenix and they ran a power off and on
Speaker 1: for like thirty six hours because of the haboob yep.
Speaker 2: So it's the same thing we see here. You basically
Speaker 2: have these powering thunderstorms in the line, and the thunderstorms
Speaker 2: are collapsing because of the dry climate, and that collapsing
Speaker 2: causes an outflow. We talk about that here all the time,
Speaker 2: a gush of wind. But it is so powerful, it
Speaker 2: is so linear, and because it's the desert and you
Speaker 2: have all this dust on the ground. Right, you don't
Speaker 2: have education like we do here. You basically that dusty
Speaker 2: outflow boundary from the collapsing thunderstorms is just like this giant,
Speaker 2: roaring wind that's picking up all this dust and you
Speaker 2: get this huge rolling dust cloud, which can be nasty
Speaker 2: visibility drops. You know, it gets into your cars systems,
Speaker 2: It gets into eighteen units if your windows are open.
Speaker 2: God bless you. You got a mess. Yeah, So that's
Speaker 2: what they call the same thing. We get them here.
Speaker 2: We just don't get that dry component and the dusty component.
Speaker 2: We just get the blast of wind sometimes and sometimes
Speaker 2: we do get them. We've seen them and track them
Speaker 2: on satellite in southeast Colorado where it's a little dry
Speaker 2: and there's a little more dust to kickup.
Speaker 1: This texterra said Mandy Denver is getting Seattle weather? Why
Speaker 1: is Seattle getting Denver weather?
Speaker 3: How we flipped?
Speaker 1: I'm not paying attention to what's going on in Seattle.
Speaker 3: What's happening there?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I am not paying attention to
Speaker 2: it either. So I'll take the Texters that they're probably
Speaker 2: warm and dry. You know, we have a persistent flow
Speaker 2: up and out of the south and west. It's a
Speaker 2: monsoon flow. We're tapping in the moisture from the dull.
Speaker 2: All this moisture feeding in, and we've got what we
Speaker 2: call troughts, little debted waves, little stretched out areas of
Speaker 2: low pressure. Instead of being a center of circulation that's
Speaker 2: a little more elongated. And they're coming up and over
Speaker 2: the mountains almost on the daily routine, and that's helping
Speaker 2: to lift the moisture and get the showers and thunderstorms going.
Speaker 2: Most of it has been showers, as you've seen, because
Speaker 2: once the storms come off the mountains, they come down
Speaker 2: to this cool, calmer environment. But our humidity levels are
Speaker 2: due points, which we talk about all the time, due points.
Speaker 2: Our due points are running in the upper fifties. So
Speaker 2: by Colorado standards, this has been human.
Speaker 3: It's been soupy. Yeah, soupy.
Speaker 2: You step out of the shower here, normally you expect
Speaker 2: to dry off quickly. You've done that the last few days.
Speaker 2: You know, you step out and you're like, I'm sweating
Speaker 2: my right, what's going on?
Speaker 1: Yeah? This texter said Mandy. We're starting to grow web
Speaker 1: feed out here in Lineman. It's glorious. So not everybody's
Speaker 1: upset about that. And lastly, I think it's very important
Speaker 1: that we give the wine Yogi credit for willing this
Speaker 1: weather into existence. She wore her fall clothes last week
Speaker 1: when she was on the show and said she was
Speaker 1: going to personally will some fall weather our way.
Speaker 3: So well done. Now let me ask you the question.
Speaker 3: Oh go ahead.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say that's great, and if that worked
Speaker 2: for her, great, But if she starts telling you she's
Speaker 2: wearing winter clothing, everybody prepares.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 1: Dave Fraser, Fox thirty one's chief meteorologists, I appreciate.
Speaker 3: Oh real quick, this one more question just popped up.
Speaker 1: Can you ask Dave where precisely at the Denver Airport
Speaker 1: is the temperature sensor?
Speaker 3: Is it like the one in Arizona, which is.
Speaker 1: The runway wins of the right direction the jet exhaust
Speaker 1: actually elevates the temperatures that from Illinois.
Speaker 3: Farm boy.
Speaker 2: You know, those are things that have they've discussed. I
Speaker 2: won't get into the details of it. You can actually google.
Speaker 2: I actually did a segment on this talking about where
Speaker 2: it is and what the same right looks like in
Speaker 2: the whole nine yards, and you can google it. It
Speaker 2: will give you the latitude longitude and you can actually
Speaker 2: zoom right down. It is east of the airport and
Speaker 2: east of the utility road in an open field and
Speaker 2: you can find it. So I would suggest that that
Speaker 2: list or just go ahead and do that, because for
Speaker 2: me to try and give you a specific location, it's
Speaker 2: easy to find. You'll see it's with a group of
Speaker 2: other sensors out there, right.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's good news. Thank you. Dave Frasier.
Speaker 2: Hey, have a great Labor Day weekend. Talk to you.
Speaker 3: So you too, Man, you too.