Speaker 1: Box thirty one and Chief meteorologist Dave Frasier. Dave, we're
Speaker 1: going to talk about the weather in just a second,
Speaker 1: but I know you worked in Cincinnati, so I have
Speaker 1: got to share this horrifying story with you before we
Speaker 1: go any further.
Speaker 2: Are you ready?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: Absolutely?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Being Cincinnati where you live there, you know about Greater's
Speaker 1: ice Cream of course because they're everywhere if through Ohio.
Speaker 1: And you of course know about Skyline Chili, did you know?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Met neither, but now there is a limited addition Greaters
Speaker 1: Skyline Spice ice Cream.
Speaker 2: And it has Wayster crackers in it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll pass that. I will pass.
Speaker 2: That's what I said.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've heard you over the years challenge a Rod
Speaker 3: to try things. I'll let Arod try that.
Speaker 1: Well, they do say the ice cream really just tastes
Speaker 1: like cinnamon and nutmeg, which neither have a place in chili,
Speaker 1: but in ice cream. Maybe I don't know, but yeah
Speaker 1: that I saw A listener sent that to me and
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 2: Like, who anyway, So let's talk about this storm tomorrow.
Speaker 2: We look it at. What kind of storm is this?
Speaker 2: Where's it coming from?
Speaker 4: This is you know every winter season there are at
Speaker 4: least a minimum of two, maybe three storms that become very,
Speaker 4: very challenging from a standard from forecasting, and this is
Speaker 4: one of them.
Speaker 3: And the reason for that is because of the placement
Speaker 3: of the storm in southern Colorado. Denver is just on
Speaker 3: the northern fringe, and so any wabble in that northern
Speaker 3: line of snow makes a difference between who gets it
Speaker 3: and who doesn't, and there will be a harsh cut up.
Speaker 3: I was just telling a rod this. Literally, on the
Speaker 3: south and east sides of the Metro, you can be
Speaker 3: driving and then all of a sudden, run into a
Speaker 3: couple inches of snow. You'll go from nothing to a
Speaker 3: couple inches. So that wobble factor is the biggest challenge
Speaker 3: we're dealing with right now. I'm sitting here scratching my
Speaker 3: head looking at it. I have stuff that goes the
Speaker 3: city of Denver might see some snow showers to the
Speaker 3: city of Denver gets nothing. I can see Castle Rock
Speaker 3: maybe getting up to an inch, but I also have
Speaker 3: computer models to get castle Rock nothing. And then you
Speaker 3: drive east of Castle Rock towards Kyowa and there's four
Speaker 3: inches of snow. So I would just tell any of
Speaker 3: your listeners you know, if you live from Denver to
Speaker 3: say Aurora, you're probably going to see some snow. I
Speaker 3: don't know that your morning commuter is going to be impacted.
Speaker 3: I think the airport is on the extreme northern fringe
Speaker 3: of seeing some light snow showers with minimal to no accumulation.
Speaker 3: But as you go south and east of there. So
Speaker 3: I would tell you if you live in Castle Rock,
Speaker 3: if you live down south towards Parker driving through the
Speaker 3: gap on the south side of I twenty five, be
Speaker 3: prepared tomorrow morning. Think of Lincoln going east to Parker
Speaker 3: RidgeGate Road, Hess Road. They could have snow on them
Speaker 3: and it could be a little slick in the morning.
Speaker 3: But there's also a chance that that snow line moves
Speaker 3: just east of there and you may have to go
Speaker 3: all the way out to Linemen to find snow. So
Speaker 3: I would just say to people be prepared on the
Speaker 3: southeast side and watch the forecast. It is going to
Speaker 3: change because of that wobble factor.
Speaker 1: So what you're telling me is we got a chance,
Speaker 1: there's a chance.
Speaker 3: What's interesting is the chances go like we've got a
Speaker 3: twenty to thirty percent chance, a low chance that Denver,
Speaker 3: the city see snow, but that chance ramps up to
Speaker 3: eighty to one hundred percent as you go farther south
Speaker 3: and east, So it really is going to be about placement,
Speaker 3: and the center of this storm needs to be watched.
Speaker 3: A couple other things about it quickly. It's a southern storm,
Speaker 3: and it's a Pacific storm, which means it doesn't have
Speaker 3: a lot of cold air, so some of you may
Speaker 3: see a little bit of brain. And the overall impact
Speaker 3: of the roads is only going to be for several
Speaker 3: hours through the morning commute. After that, the sun's going
Speaker 3: to come out. We're going to be forty five degrees
Speaker 3: and anything that Paul's is going to melt.
Speaker 2: Okay, perfect, that's what I want to hear.
Speaker 1: We're going back to like the sixties next week, aren't we.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've got as soon as this storm moves out tomorrow,
Speaker 5: I'm going fifty seven on Friday, fifty nine Saturday, sixty,
Speaker 5: sixty two on Sunday, and still there, sixty on Monday,
Speaker 5: and then night Tuesday.
Speaker 3: Wednesday, we'll get a little weak cold front that kind
Speaker 3: of backs in and we'll trim the temperatures back into
Speaker 3: the forties, which is which is seasonal and listen, we're
Speaker 3: doing great. I don't know if I caught up with
Speaker 3: you last time, because we had the snow over this
Speaker 3: past weekend. We've got thirteen point three inches of snow.
Speaker 3: We are the fourteenth snowiest January on record, also coming
Speaker 3: in as the fifteenth coldest. And if you remember, back
Speaker 3: in December we talked about the long range outlook, what
Speaker 3: was it? Dry and water? Yeah? Why didn't happen? Did
Speaker 3: not happen?
Speaker 1: I mean, Dave, I know people like to make fun
Speaker 1: of meteorologists, like you're wrong half the time or whatever,
Speaker 1: But I mean, do you ever just like kind of
Speaker 1: want to just slap your forehead and go, okay, you know, okay, God,
Speaker 1: I'm humbled.
Speaker 2: You know, I get it.
Speaker 1: We're just guessing here because it's got to be super
Speaker 1: frustrating doing what you do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, But it comes with the territory. So
Speaker 3: I mean, you've got to have a thick skin, and
Speaker 3: you have to if you're going to be a meteor relics,
Speaker 3: you have to accept the fact that you will be
Speaker 3: wrong just the way things are. And we use computers
Speaker 3: as guidance. We don't hang our hat on one computer model.
Speaker 3: We analyze all of them and try and find a
Speaker 3: sweet spot, which is what I'm doing today, and it
Speaker 3: can be frustrating. Some are easy, some are a little
Speaker 3: more challenging, and some are downright top and you know,
Speaker 3: sometimes you hit the putt and it comes up and
Speaker 3: look short. But you know what, I think, as long
Speaker 3: as we message, just as I did the cautionary tale
Speaker 3: of Hey, if you live south and east of Denver,
Speaker 3: be prepared for some slick roads in the morning. If
Speaker 3: you wake up and the roads on flick, good for you,
Speaker 3: head off to work and you got no problems.
Speaker 1: I got a weather It's not a weather question, but
Speaker 1: it's a TV weather question, Dave. What are the black
Speaker 1: controllers the news anchors have in their hands?
Speaker 3: So we recently at the start of the new year,
Speaker 3: we used to have a teleprompter operators, somebody that would
Speaker 3: sit and control the rolling scripts, the stories that the
Speaker 3: anchors read, and the teleprompter. We have moved away from
Speaker 3: that to the anchors and the reporters who are in
Speaker 3: studio controlling it themselves. So the black controller you're seeing
Speaker 3: is them controlling it. Eventually what's going to happen? And
Speaker 3: this is kind of cool. The system is training itself
Speaker 3: so that AI can actually operate it based on the
Speaker 3: cadence of the person reading. Wow, those black boxes will
Speaker 3: go away and the anchor will just sit and read
Speaker 3: and an AI component will run the teleprompter for them
Speaker 3: based on their voice and their cadence and reading. So
Speaker 3: that's pretty cool. AI is. I heard you talking about
Speaker 3: it the other day, trying to get into it, and
Speaker 3: I've kind of peeked at it a little bit. I'm amazed.
Speaker 3: I'm a little intimidated. I don't know what it does. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but from example, I have.
Speaker 1: Friends that have already adopted like ten or twelve different
Speaker 1: AI platforms, and they're doing these incredible things, and.
Speaker 2: I feel like a ludite over here with AI. I'm like,
Speaker 2: what am I doing? I don't know. I think I
Speaker 2: can make a right picture. I mean, it's like it's
Speaker 2: I feel so left behind right now.
Speaker 3: It's funny because I asked Jeremy Hubbard. I said, hey, Jeremy,
Speaker 3: show me how this works. I don't know what it
Speaker 3: is and everything. So he went in and funny he
Speaker 3: put my name in and he said he asked chat
Speaker 3: GPT I think it was, and he said, write a
Speaker 3: resignation letter, which if that was funny, he says, write
Speaker 3: a resignation letter for Dave Fraser. And within like eight seconds,
Speaker 3: it wrote this letter and it went obviously, it scanned
Speaker 3: in the internet and it found out where I worked,
Speaker 3: and it mentioned Fox thirty one. I talked about my
Speaker 3: years in town. I was blown away. And then Jeremy,
Speaker 3: he says, watch this. He asked it to make a
Speaker 3: picture of a fifty year old weather man, and it
Speaker 3: came back with this picture. There was like this whirling
Speaker 3: tornado and this guy's in this tight blue suit. His
Speaker 3: hair's all fried out, like you look like you got
Speaker 3: hit by electricity. And then Jeremy took a picture and
Speaker 3: said add Dave space into it, and the picture printed
Speaker 3: out fifteen seconds. Is amazing. I couldn't believe it. I
Speaker 3: sat there with my jaw down, going wow. And it's
Speaker 3: crazy because it looks just like me. But you know,
Speaker 3: it's a little yeah, the picture, you know what, I'll
Speaker 3: text it to a ride.
Speaker 2: Please do, I'll put it on the blog.
Speaker 1: I'll put it on the blog with your permission so
Speaker 1: people can see it. All right, Dave Frazier, I've got
Speaker 1: one more quick question for you. And it might not
Speaker 1: be quick, but way it has to because we're amost
Speaker 1: out of time. Ask if their entire crew gets together
Speaker 1: and decides on what the forecast will be, or if
Speaker 1: they each do their own individual forecast.
Speaker 3: No, it has always then my uh, everybody who has
Speaker 3: interviewed with me, who becomes a part of our team
Speaker 3: knows I am one hundred percent team. There's no reason
Speaker 3: to be using one brain when we have six brains.
Speaker 3: Everybody can analyze. Some people might pick up on different things.
Speaker 3: Everybody has a different asset that they bring to the table,
Speaker 3: and we communicate. So this afternoon when I go to work,
Speaker 3: Liz and Alden and I will scrutinize the forecast and
Speaker 3: we will talk about it and come to a opinion,
Speaker 3: and that if we have to, we will communicate on
Speaker 3: a techt spread that the entire team shares to let
Speaker 3: the morning crew know what we decided about snowfall totals,
Speaker 3: so that we can maintain a single message from the
Speaker 3: entire Pinpoint Weather team to anybody watching us on either
Speaker 3: of our stations or any platform we ship.
Speaker 2: All right, Dave Fraser, a pleasure.
Speaker 1: As always, We'll talk to you next week after our little.
Speaker 1: It'll be delightful next week and I'll be like, Dave,
Speaker 1: thanks for bringing in the nice weather, and you can
Speaker 1: totally take credit.
Speaker 3: Ay a little preview of spring. Get ready for it?
Speaker 2: There you go, all right, that's Dave Fraser, Box thirty one,