Speaker 1: Time of day when we talked to Dave Fraser, Fox
Speaker 1: thirty one's chief meteorologist for Weather Wednesday. We have a
Speaker 1: different producer on the board, and we don't he doesn't
Speaker 1: know where Dave's open is. Is that not Dave on
Speaker 1: the phone?
Speaker 2: Shannon? Oh wait, hang on, Dave, if you're out there,
Speaker 2: call us, call me. Is that him?
Speaker 1: Okay, never mind, Dave Fraser, Welcome to Weather Wednesday.
Speaker 2: How you doing, my friend? I'm good.
Speaker 3: I can't hear you, though, I think we do have
Speaker 3: a bad connection. Shannon couldn't hear me either.
Speaker 2: I can hear you.
Speaker 3: Can you hear me barely? So I'll just try and
Speaker 3: listen intently and talk.
Speaker 1: I will speak to you like I am in a
Speaker 1: foreign country, trying to make sure they understand me.
Speaker 2: Do you hear the words coming out of my mouth exactly?
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the weather this week. What do we
Speaker 1: have looking to look forward to?
Speaker 3: Okay, I heard that question a little bit. So we
Speaker 3: do have to look forward to a chance for showers
Speaker 3: and thunderstorms today. Yesterday was disappointing. Anybody watched me on
Speaker 3: the air yesterday knows how disappointing it was. We woke
Speaker 3: up yesterday morning with like ninety three percent humidity. Yeah,
Speaker 3: probably something everybody noticed, and we had just the perfect
Speaker 3: ingredients to capitalize on that moisture and get caught up
Speaker 3: on the lack of rain that we've seen in July. Unfortunately,
Speaker 3: we just couldn't get things going because the clouds kept
Speaker 3: the temperatures down and then the wind turned to the
Speaker 3: wrong direction and was downsloping, and so we got a
Speaker 3: big old goose egg yesterday up and down the Front Range.
Speaker 3: While eastern and southeastern Colorado had won two inch rain totals.
Speaker 3: Today the humidity levels are not as high, but there's
Speaker 3: still decent so there's still good moisture. And I do
Speaker 3: think covering around day three to six o'clock up and
Speaker 3: down the Front Range, it will be scattered storms, slow movers,
Speaker 3: and because of the humidity and the slow movement, there
Speaker 3: can be some pockets of heavy rain. Hopefully it's beneficial
Speaker 3: rain and not a problematic rain where it causes flooding.
Speaker 3: That is always a concern, but generally we get the
Speaker 3: soak it in, so watch out for ponding, watch out
Speaker 3: for standing water and small streams and creaks. If it
Speaker 3: rained heavy in your area, could come up. You know,
Speaker 3: we're not talking flash flooding like you know we saw
Speaker 3: back in Texas, but small streams, creeks, little rivers can
Speaker 3: come up a little bit. So just be on the
Speaker 3: lookout for that. Good news. As we say in the eighties,
Speaker 3: strong chances are there on Thursday and Friday, but they
Speaker 3: start to drop off so that by the weekend we're dried.
Speaker 3: Heading back into the nineties.
Speaker 2: Okay, I've got a question for you.
Speaker 1: Hi, Mandy, if you have time, please ask Dave about
Speaker 1: corn sweat.
Speaker 2: We just returned from the Senior.
Speaker 1: Olympic Games in Des Moines, Iowa, and the corn was sweating.
Speaker 1: Heat index was one hundred and eighteen when my husband
Speaker 1: was competing, miserable, but he still took second place.
Speaker 3: Oh congratulations to him. You know, I don't know that
Speaker 3: I've worked in Des Moines. I don't know that I've
Speaker 3: heard the term corn sweat, but I think I can
Speaker 3: to visualize what you're talking about, and yeah, you're talking
Speaker 3: about a heat index and high humidity, something we don't
Speaker 3: have to deal with here. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 3: the heat index in Colorado, because of our semiary climate,
Speaker 3: generally runs five degrees below what the air temperature is
Speaker 3: because evaporation is how your body cools, and so when
Speaker 3: you have high humidity and you're in an area like
Speaker 3: de More in Iowa where your humidity values can you know,
Speaker 3: it could be ninety five degrees out with a ninety
Speaker 3: percent humidity. Your body is trying to sweat to cool
Speaker 3: you down, but because the air is so thick and
Speaker 3: moisture laden the humidity, the sweat just stays on your body.
Speaker 3: You can't cool down where our environment as our body sweats,
Speaker 3: the evaporation process removes the sweat from us. That's a
Speaker 3: cooling process and that actually feels cooler here. So yeah,
Speaker 3: definitely sweating it out in the Midwest with the temperatures
Speaker 3: that they've been having and the heat indexes that they've
Speaker 3: been seeing out there all the way into the Upper
Speaker 3: Midwest as well.
Speaker 1: I use the Google and corn sweat is a term
Speaker 1: for the process of evapo transporation in cornfields where corn lands, yeah,
Speaker 1: release water vapor into the atmosphere as they absorb water
Speaker 1: from the ground and use it for growth in other processes.
Speaker 1: This increases the humidity, especially in the Midwest corn belt.
Speaker 2: So that's the thing we know now.
Speaker 3: That Yeah, so again, I had not heard of the
Speaker 3: term corn sweat, but avappot transporation is exactly that plants
Speaker 3: do grab ground soil and they can add you think
Speaker 3: about a thick canopy of a forest or a tropical area,
Speaker 3: or certainly corn which uses water and that moisture then
Speaker 3: evaporates into the eric can raise the humidity levels around
Speaker 3: those kind of environments.
Speaker 2: Here's one for you, make sure.
Speaker 1: Dave mentions this is the anniversary week of both nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy six Estes Park and nineteen ninety seven Fort Collins floods.
Speaker 1: Something about this time of year in Colorado? Is there
Speaker 1: something about this time of year in Colorado?
Speaker 3: Generally? There really isn't anything specific, But I would say
Speaker 3: generally speaking, you're at the seventy six you're talking about
Speaker 3: the big Thompson flood. We generally deal with slow moving thunderstorms,
Speaker 3: and so at this time of the year, we can't
Speaker 3: have monsoon moisture in play. Like I said yesterday, our
Speaker 3: due point. You and I talked about due points before.
Speaker 3: It's a measurement of moisture in the air. Obviously, for
Speaker 3: US thirties and forties is comfortable, but when we get
Speaker 3: into the fifties as Colorado's we start to feel it
Speaker 3: when you think of due points in the sixties, and
Speaker 3: higher Midwest can have due points in the seventies. That's
Speaker 3: that thick, thick air that we talk about all the time.
Speaker 3: Yesterday morning, our due point was at sixty six degrees.
Speaker 3: That's high for us. Today it's like fifty one. So
Speaker 3: at this time of the year you can have copious
Speaker 3: moisture that can feed into moving thunderstorms. If they go
Speaker 3: over a certain terrain like the big Thompson Canyon and
Speaker 3: they double a lot of water upstream, you can have
Speaker 3: these flooding events. So that's why I said today is
Speaker 3: one of these events where we'll keep an eye out
Speaker 3: for some flooding. We always watch the burn scars like
Speaker 3: the Cameron Peak off to the west and the Alexander Mountain.
Speaker 3: Those tend to be a little more susceptible, so we'll
Speaker 3: monitor all that today. Overall, I don't think it's a
Speaker 3: huge thread, but it is something worth.
Speaker 2: Watching, just as a point of order.
Speaker 1: Dave, the due point in Fort Myers, Florida as today
Speaker 1: is seventy six degrees.
Speaker 2: Dear Lord.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I love Colorado because of our semi arid climate.
Speaker 3: You know, I grew up in the northeast, you grew
Speaker 3: up on the southeast. We all know what humidity a well,
Speaker 3: when you've lived here for you know, as long as
Speaker 3: I have and as long as you have, and you
Speaker 3: get so comfortable with our environment and just how great
Speaker 3: it is to be out and about and not have
Speaker 3: to deal with that, and then you go back and
Speaker 3: visit family and you step off the plane, it's like, yeah,
Speaker 3: it hits you like a wall.
Speaker 1: In case you were wondering how that translates right now,
Speaker 1: ninety three percent humidity in Fort Myers Daveney.
Speaker 3: That's what we were yesterday morning. Yesterday morning am, we
Speaker 3: had a ninety three percent humidity.
Speaker 1: It was gross. I walked my dog in it. It
Speaker 1: was disgusting, all right, Dave Fraser. One last question, Hi, Mandy.
Speaker 1: Last night up in Wyoming, we had a severe thunderstorm
Speaker 1: watch issued from like six pm to midnight. What's the
Speaker 1: That's the latest this Texter could ever remember having a
Speaker 1: watch issued.
Speaker 2: Is that out of the norm.
Speaker 3: It's not out of the norm, but it was a
Speaker 3: little late that I was tracking those storms and watching
Speaker 3: them too, because I was concerned late last night. They
Speaker 3: were kind of moving in an easterly direction, and I
Speaker 3: was concerned that maybe they would take a southeasterly turn
Speaker 3: and move into northern Colorado. We just had a situation
Speaker 3: yesterday with the setup of the thick clouds and the
Speaker 3: high humidity that the storms were. There was a lot
Speaker 3: of outflow boundaries. Yesterday we talked about outflows that were
Speaker 3: flying around and they were just triggering additional storms. And
Speaker 3: once they get going, they take a little while. Because
Speaker 3: they were slow movers. They did linger a little longer
Speaker 3: last night. And by the way, the skies were electric.
Speaker 3: When we talk about those nighttime storms we talk about
Speaker 3: nocturnal lightning. The skies were electric in Wyoming. They were
Speaker 3: electric out on the eastern planes for hours and hours,
Speaker 3: almost continuous lighting. So it was just a set up
Speaker 3: yesterday where the slow movement and the sun coming out
Speaker 3: in some areas triggered pretty good storms and then the
Speaker 3: outflows took over. We tracked when coming back to Denver
Speaker 3: last night after eleven o'clock, and I was thinking maybe
Speaker 3: if our fingers crossed, we might be able to trigger
Speaker 3: something along it. It never did. It just kind of
Speaker 3: washed out as it got close to the city. So
Speaker 3: I hopes today that we get the rain we need,
Speaker 3: just watch out for that flooding possibility that I mentioned,
Speaker 3: and then we'll get it dry as we head into
Speaker 3: the weekend, and welcome in the month of August.
Speaker 1: On Friday and end of that, Dave Frasier, Fox thirty
Speaker 1: one's chief meteorologist, thanks for making time for us again
Speaker 1: on Weather Wednesday.
Speaker 3: All right, take care, many tis all right, every one day.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back