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<v Speaker 1>Time of day when we talked to Dave Fraser, Fox

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<v Speaker 1>thirty one's chief meteorologist for Weather Wednesday. We have a

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<v Speaker 1>different producer on the board, and we don't he doesn't

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<v Speaker 1>know where Dave's open is. Is that not Dave on

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<v Speaker 1>the phone?

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<v Speaker 2>Shannon? Oh wait, hang on, Dave, if you're out there,

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<v Speaker 2>call us, call me. Is that him?

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, never mind, Dave Fraser, Welcome to Weather Wednesday.

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<v Speaker 2>How you doing, my friend? I'm good.

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<v Speaker 3>I can't hear you, though, I think we do have

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<v Speaker 3>a bad connection. Shannon couldn't hear me either.

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<v Speaker 2>I can hear you.

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<v Speaker 3>Can you hear me barely? So I'll just try and

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<v Speaker 3>listen intently and talk.

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<v Speaker 1>I will speak to you like I am in a

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<v Speaker 1>foreign country, trying to make sure they understand me.

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<v Speaker 2>Do you hear the words coming out of my mouth exactly?

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<v Speaker 1>Let's talk about the weather this week. What do we

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<v Speaker 1>have looking to look forward to?

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, I heard that question a little bit. So we

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<v Speaker 3>do have to look forward to a chance for showers

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<v Speaker 3>and thunderstorms today. Yesterday was disappointing. Anybody watched me on

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<v Speaker 3>the air yesterday knows how disappointing it was. We woke

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<v Speaker 3>up yesterday morning with like ninety three percent humidity. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>probably something everybody noticed, and we had just the perfect

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<v Speaker 3>ingredients to capitalize on that moisture and get caught up

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<v Speaker 3>on the lack of rain that we've seen in July. Unfortunately,

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<v Speaker 3>we just couldn't get things going because the clouds kept

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<v Speaker 3>the temperatures down and then the wind turned to the

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<v Speaker 3>wrong direction and was downsloping, and so we got a

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<v Speaker 3>big old goose egg yesterday up and down the Front Range.

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<v Speaker 3>While eastern and southeastern Colorado had won two inch rain totals.

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<v Speaker 3>Today the humidity levels are not as high, but there's

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<v Speaker 3>still decent so there's still good moisture. And I do

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<v Speaker 3>think covering around day three to six o'clock up and

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<v Speaker 3>down the Front Range, it will be scattered storms, slow movers,

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<v Speaker 3>and because of the humidity and the slow movement, there

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<v Speaker 3>can be some pockets of heavy rain. Hopefully it's beneficial

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<v Speaker 3>rain and not a problematic rain where it causes flooding.

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<v Speaker 3>That is always a concern, but generally we get the

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<v Speaker 3>soak it in, so watch out for ponding, watch out

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<v Speaker 3>for standing water and small streams and creaks. If it

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<v Speaker 3>rained heavy in your area, could come up. You know,

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<v Speaker 3>we're not talking flash flooding like you know we saw

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<v Speaker 3>back in Texas, but small streams, creeks, little rivers can

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<v Speaker 3>come up a little bit. So just be on the

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<v Speaker 3>lookout for that. Good news. As we say in the eighties,

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<v Speaker 3>strong chances are there on Thursday and Friday, but they

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<v Speaker 3>start to drop off so that by the weekend we're dried.

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<v Speaker 3>Heading back into the nineties.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, I've got a question for you.

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<v Speaker 1>Hi, Mandy, if you have time, please ask Dave about

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<v Speaker 1>corn sweat.

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<v Speaker 2>We just returned from the Senior.

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<v Speaker 1>Olympic Games in Des Moines, Iowa, and the corn was sweating.

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<v Speaker 1>Heat index was one hundred and eighteen when my husband

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<v Speaker 1>was competing, miserable, but he still took second place.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh congratulations to him. You know, I don't know that

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<v Speaker 3>I've worked in Des Moines. I don't know that I've

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<v Speaker 3>heard the term corn sweat, but I think I can

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<v Speaker 3>to visualize what you're talking about, and yeah, you're talking

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<v Speaker 3>about a heat index and high humidity, something we don't

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<v Speaker 3>have to deal with here. As a matter of fact,

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<v Speaker 3>the heat index in Colorado, because of our semiary climate,

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<v Speaker 3>generally runs five degrees below what the air temperature is

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<v Speaker 3>because evaporation is how your body cools, and so when

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<v Speaker 3>you have high humidity and you're in an area like

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<v Speaker 3>de More in Iowa where your humidity values can you know,

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<v Speaker 3>it could be ninety five degrees out with a ninety

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<v Speaker 3>percent humidity. Your body is trying to sweat to cool

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<v Speaker 3>you down, but because the air is so thick and

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<v Speaker 3>moisture laden the humidity, the sweat just stays on your body.

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<v Speaker 3>You can't cool down where our environment as our body sweats,

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<v Speaker 3>the evaporation process removes the sweat from us. That's a

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<v Speaker 3>cooling process and that actually feels cooler here. So yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>definitely sweating it out in the Midwest with the temperatures

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<v Speaker 3>that they've been having and the heat indexes that they've

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<v Speaker 3>been seeing out there all the way into the Upper

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<v Speaker 3>Midwest as well.

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<v Speaker 1>I use the Google and corn sweat is a term

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<v Speaker 1>for the process of evapo transporation in cornfields where corn lands, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>release water vapor into the atmosphere as they absorb water

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<v Speaker 1>from the ground and use it for growth in other processes.

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<v Speaker 1>This increases the humidity, especially in the Midwest corn belt.

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<v Speaker 2>So that's the thing we know now.

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<v Speaker 3>That Yeah, so again, I had not heard of the

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<v Speaker 3>term corn sweat, but avappot transporation is exactly that plants

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<v Speaker 3>do grab ground soil and they can add you think

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<v Speaker 3>about a thick canopy of a forest or a tropical area,

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<v Speaker 3>or certainly corn which uses water and that moisture then

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<v Speaker 3>evaporates into the eric can raise the humidity levels around

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<v Speaker 3>those kind of environments.

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<v Speaker 2>Here's one for you, make sure.

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<v Speaker 1>Dave mentions this is the anniversary week of both nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>seventy six Estes Park and nineteen ninety seven Fort Collins floods.

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<v Speaker 1>Something about this time of year in Colorado? Is there

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<v Speaker 1>something about this time of year in Colorado?

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<v Speaker 3>Generally? There really isn't anything specific, But I would say

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<v Speaker 3>generally speaking, you're at the seventy six you're talking about

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<v Speaker 3>the big Thompson flood. We generally deal with slow moving thunderstorms,

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<v Speaker 3>and so at this time of the year, we can't

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<v Speaker 3>have monsoon moisture in play. Like I said yesterday, our

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<v Speaker 3>due point. You and I talked about due points before.

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<v Speaker 3>It's a measurement of moisture in the air. Obviously, for

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<v Speaker 3>US thirties and forties is comfortable, but when we get

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<v Speaker 3>into the fifties as Colorado's we start to feel it

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<v Speaker 3>when you think of due points in the sixties, and

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<v Speaker 3>higher Midwest can have due points in the seventies. That's

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<v Speaker 3>that thick, thick air that we talk about all the time.

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<v Speaker 3>Yesterday morning, our due point was at sixty six degrees.

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<v Speaker 3>That's high for us. Today it's like fifty one. So

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<v Speaker 3>at this time of the year you can have copious

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<v Speaker 3>moisture that can feed into moving thunderstorms. If they go

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<v Speaker 3>over a certain terrain like the big Thompson Canyon and

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<v Speaker 3>they double a lot of water upstream, you can have

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<v Speaker 3>these flooding events. So that's why I said today is

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<v Speaker 3>one of these events where we'll keep an eye out

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<v Speaker 3>for some flooding. We always watch the burn scars like

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<v Speaker 3>the Cameron Peak off to the west and the Alexander Mountain.

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<v Speaker 3>Those tend to be a little more susceptible, so we'll

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<v Speaker 3>monitor all that today. Overall, I don't think it's a

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<v Speaker 3>huge thread, but it is something worth.

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<v Speaker 2>Watching, just as a point of order.

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<v Speaker 1>Dave, the due point in Fort Myers, Florida as today

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<v Speaker 1>is seventy six degrees.

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<v Speaker 2>Dear Lord.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, So I love Colorado because of our semi arid climate.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, I grew up in the northeast, you grew

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<v Speaker 3>up on the southeast. We all know what humidity a well,

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<v Speaker 3>when you've lived here for you know, as long as

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<v Speaker 3>I have and as long as you have, and you

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<v Speaker 3>get so comfortable with our environment and just how great

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<v Speaker 3>it is to be out and about and not have

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<v Speaker 3>to deal with that, and then you go back and

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<v Speaker 3>visit family and you step off the plane, it's like, yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>it hits you like a wall.

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<v Speaker 1>In case you were wondering how that translates right now,

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<v Speaker 1>ninety three percent humidity in Fort Myers Daveney.

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<v Speaker 3>That's what we were yesterday morning. Yesterday morning am, we

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<v Speaker 3>had a ninety three percent humidity.

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<v Speaker 1>It was gross. I walked my dog in it. It

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<v Speaker 1>was disgusting, all right, Dave Fraser. One last question, Hi, Mandy.

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<v Speaker 1>Last night up in Wyoming, we had a severe thunderstorm

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<v Speaker 1>watch issued from like six pm to midnight. What's the

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<v Speaker 1>That's the latest this Texter could ever remember having a

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<v Speaker 1>watch issued.

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<v Speaker 2>Is that out of the norm.

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<v Speaker 3>It's not out of the norm, but it was a

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<v Speaker 3>little late that I was tracking those storms and watching

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<v Speaker 3>them too, because I was concerned late last night. They

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<v Speaker 3>were kind of moving in an easterly direction, and I

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<v Speaker 3>was concerned that maybe they would take a southeasterly turn

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<v Speaker 3>and move into northern Colorado. We just had a situation

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<v Speaker 3>yesterday with the setup of the thick clouds and the

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<v Speaker 3>high humidity that the storms were. There was a lot

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<v Speaker 3>of outflow boundaries. Yesterday we talked about outflows that were

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<v Speaker 3>flying around and they were just triggering additional storms. And

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<v Speaker 3>once they get going, they take a little while. Because

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<v Speaker 3>they were slow movers. They did linger a little longer

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<v Speaker 3>last night. And by the way, the skies were electric.

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<v Speaker 3>When we talk about those nighttime storms we talk about

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<v Speaker 3>nocturnal lightning. The skies were electric in Wyoming. They were

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<v Speaker 3>electric out on the eastern planes for hours and hours,

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<v Speaker 3>almost continuous lighting. So it was just a set up

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<v Speaker 3>yesterday where the slow movement and the sun coming out

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<v Speaker 3>in some areas triggered pretty good storms and then the

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<v Speaker 3>outflows took over. We tracked when coming back to Denver

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<v Speaker 3>last night after eleven o'clock, and I was thinking maybe

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<v Speaker 3>if our fingers crossed, we might be able to trigger

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<v Speaker 3>something along it. It never did. It just kind of

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<v Speaker 3>washed out as it got close to the city. So

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<v Speaker 3>I hopes today that we get the rain we need,

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<v Speaker 3>just watch out for that flooding possibility that I mentioned,

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<v Speaker 3>and then we'll get it dry as we head into

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<v Speaker 3>the weekend, and welcome in the month of August.

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<v Speaker 1>On Friday and end of that, Dave Frasier, Fox thirty

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<v Speaker 1>one's chief meteorologist, thanks for making time for us again

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<v Speaker 1>on Weather Wednesday.

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<v Speaker 3>All right, take care, many tis all right, every one day.

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<v Speaker 2>We'll be right back