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<v Speaker 1>Our weather guru. He is Fox thirty one's chief meteorlogist,

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<v Speaker 1>Dave Frasier. Dave, did Wyoming actually get blown off the

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<v Speaker 1>map yesterday?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's always a tough state, one of the windiest

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<v Speaker 2>in the country. And boy was at Hollowing yesterday, especially

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<v Speaker 2>along the I eighty corridor, so they got the front

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<v Speaker 2>of it. Although impressive wind gusts up high in the

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<v Speaker 2>foothills west of Denver with some eighty eighty fives. I

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<v Speaker 2>think there was even a peak at ninety outsres.

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<v Speaker 1>That's like beyond a tropical storm.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's beyond hurricane force, which is at a minimum

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<v Speaker 2>seventy five miles per hour. So you know, the good

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<v Speaker 2>thing is it's generally a lot of those gusts are

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<v Speaker 2>over the pass. Is not good if you're traveling. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>think of like Bertha Pass trying to get up to

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<v Speaker 2>win a park. So it can be a challenge for travelers.

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<v Speaker 2>There's not a lot of people that live up at

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<v Speaker 2>that ten thousand foot level, and the gusts are occasional.

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<v Speaker 2>So you know, when we talk about wind, there's the

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<v Speaker 2>constant wind, the movement, and then the gus occasional burst.

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<v Speaker 2>But if You're out and about and all of a sudden,

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<v Speaker 2>boom something, they hitch you in the back. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>gus to win thirty forty five miles proud. There's nothing

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<v Speaker 2>more annoying. And I think when it comes to weather factors,

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<v Speaker 2>wind is by far the most annoying.

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<v Speaker 1>That is A Rod made the exact same point yesterday.

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<v Speaker 1>He is in complete agreement with you about that. I

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<v Speaker 1>want to know about this polar vortex, and so does

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<v Speaker 1>one of our texters, Mandy. Does Dave foresee a polar

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<v Speaker 1>blast coming around Christmas time to New Year's That from

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<v Speaker 1>Tom and Loveland? What are we looking at this polar vortex?

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<v Speaker 1>Because I'm actually going to be in Ohio, so I'm

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<v Speaker 1>afraid I'm driving into the polar vortex.

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<v Speaker 2>You are? You are? And again that's a cute name,

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<v Speaker 2>if you will. It's an attention grab or it's basically

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<v Speaker 2>a giant area of low pressure. We see these spinning

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<v Speaker 2>up near Hudson Bay in Canada, and they're deep low

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<v Speaker 2>pressures and they can whip up cold and they can

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<v Speaker 2>whip up wind. And right now, the next shot of

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<v Speaker 2>very very cold air is going to slip east of Colorado,

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<v Speaker 2>the northeast corner of the state may get a little

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<v Speaker 2>bit of that, meaning their temperatures may be a little

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<v Speaker 2>lower than ours. Here along the front range, we're looking

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<v Speaker 2>very warm and dry. But I yes, I agree with you.

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<v Speaker 2>I think if you are heading east in the next

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<v Speaker 2>ten days, at least you're heading into the colder, the

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<v Speaker 2>wind eer and the higher probabilities of running into snow

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<v Speaker 2>in those areas where we're on the flip side of that.

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<v Speaker 2>I got nothing the next chance, I see. I just

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<v Speaker 2>told Arod, maybe keep your fingers crossed, keep your toes crossed.

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<v Speaker 3>The twenty third we might get a little something.

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<v Speaker 2>But between now and then, run in twenty degrees above

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<v Speaker 2>average and dry.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, So this one, this text message, This is all

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<v Speaker 1>it says, Mandy. Exclamation point. Please tell Dave that my

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<v Speaker 1>daffodils are coming up. We've got weather confused plants out there.

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<v Speaker 3>No way to send me.

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<v Speaker 2>A picture to the station. I would love to get

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<v Speaker 2>some type of a gardener or somebody with a green

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<v Speaker 2>thumb to be to explain that that is in fact true.

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<v Speaker 2>Do they think it's a second spring? I don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not the biggest when it comes to green thumb.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, I know how to take care of my

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<v Speaker 2>lawn and my trees and my shrubs when it comes

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<v Speaker 2>to plants like that. That's not my forte. But I

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<v Speaker 2>would love to see that picture if in fact that

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<v Speaker 2>is Troy. Wouldn't that be a sign of coming changes.

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<v Speaker 1>I have some daffodils in my yard, and they were

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<v Speaker 1>there when I moved in. I've just never gotten rid

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<v Speaker 1>of them. They just randomly come up. I mean sometimes

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<v Speaker 1>if we have like three warm days in January, my

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<v Speaker 1>daffodils will come up. So it's always like a mystery

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<v Speaker 1>as to when the daffodils will decide to make it

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<v Speaker 1>appearance and where they are. They get no sun, so

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<v Speaker 1>they literally grow to be like three inches high. They're

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<v Speaker 1>the saddest, little cutest little daffodils you ever saw in

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<v Speaker 1>your life day. They're just like the little daffodils that

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<v Speaker 1>could and I probably should like dig them up and

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<v Speaker 1>transplant them. It's kind of become like a fun thing

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<v Speaker 1>for me to note when this was going to happen.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, I'll bet, I'll bet just on our little conversation,

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<v Speaker 2>your text line is going to be flooded with daffodil

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<v Speaker 2>experts telling you exactly.

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<v Speaker 3>That maybe they are.

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe they are sensitive to just temperature alone, and they

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<v Speaker 2>just sound smart enough to realize it's December.

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<v Speaker 3>They're just like, hey, it's warm enough, let's pop our

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<v Speaker 3>heads up.

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<v Speaker 1>I know, yeah, there you go. I just got this

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<v Speaker 1>text message. It says, Mandy, I don't plan on murdering someone,

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<v Speaker 1>but if I did, it would be on a windy day.

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<v Speaker 2>So there you go.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, this this text has this question, manby, what happened

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<v Speaker 1>last night? At nine forty five last night, the temperature

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<v Speaker 1>was fifty nine degrees with wind out of the west.

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<v Speaker 1>By ten thirty wind shifted out of the east and

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<v Speaker 1>the temperature was thirty seven degrees. What went on there?

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<v Speaker 2>That was our cold front that came in last night.

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<v Speaker 2>So remember here along the Front Range, if you have

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<v Speaker 2>a west northwest, even southwesterly wind, you're coming up and

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<v Speaker 2>over the foothills the mountains to the west and then downsloping,

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<v Speaker 2>and that heats the air coming into Denver in the

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<v Speaker 2>Front Range.

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<v Speaker 3>So think of it as a hair dryer.

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<v Speaker 2>Being turned on. The air drives out, the air, temperatures

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<v Speaker 2>go up. So while we were in the fifties late

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<v Speaker 2>last night, we I had a little bit of a

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<v Speaker 2>westerly component to the wind, and the cold front came in.

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<v Speaker 3>And the reason you'll know a colt.

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<v Speaker 2>Front has gone by is the wind will generally turn

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<v Speaker 2>to an east northeast or even a straight northerly direction.

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<v Speaker 2>And when that happens, now we're tapping into much colder

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<v Speaker 2>air sitting north of Colorado, across the Great Plains and

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<v Speaker 2>into our Canada. And that's what happened last night. Temperatures

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<v Speaker 2>today are down a little bit from where we were yesterday,

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<v Speaker 2>not dramatically, but down a few degrees. So temperatures today

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<v Speaker 2>will be in the fifties, but tomorrow we race right

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<v Speaker 2>back to about sixty four sixty five, which is twenty

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<v Speaker 2>degrees above normal, ten away from the record, thankfully, but yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>we evan flow with the wind. Wind is king in Colorado.

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<v Speaker 1>I have a very specific question. Can you explain the

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<v Speaker 1>mechanism of why when the wind comes out of the

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<v Speaker 1>south it gets colder. It seems like it should be

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<v Speaker 1>the opposite.

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<v Speaker 2>It depends on what time of the year it is.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, when I say wind is king, wind is

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<v Speaker 2>king as it relates to topography and how it moved

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<v Speaker 2>around those graphical features that we have foothills, Palmer divide, mountains, hodback.

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<v Speaker 2>All those terms you hear us use when is king

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<v Speaker 2>when it comes to differences in elevation and how storms

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<v Speaker 2>are transported, and when is king depending on direction. And

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<v Speaker 2>sometimes you can move a wind across a snowfield that

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<v Speaker 2>can transport colder temperatures to you. So if you have

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<v Speaker 2>a southerly wind, generally, if you're down here on the

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<v Speaker 2>south side of town, you're going to get a downsloping

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<v Speaker 2>component as it comes up over Monument Hill and he

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<v Speaker 2>heats a little bit. But if there's a ton of

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<v Speaker 2>snow to the south and east out near say Elbert

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<v Speaker 2>or Lineman, or over the Eastern plains, and you have

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<v Speaker 2>a suddenly wind, you can transport colder air towards you.

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<v Speaker 2>And so those are factors that we have to take it.

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<v Speaker 2>But generally a southerly wind will be on the warm

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<v Speaker 2>side for most of the front range, barring any snowfields

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<v Speaker 2>or cold pockets. Sometimes Lineman is one of the fastest

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<v Speaker 2>places to fall off on the Eastern plant because they're

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<v Speaker 2>on the very end of the Palmer divide, so their

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<v Speaker 2>elevation drops off and all the coal there pours right

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<v Speaker 2>into Linemen, just like it doesn't Gunnison. The high mountain

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<v Speaker 2>valleys are prone to cold there because once that coal

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<v Speaker 2>there pours in, it's trapped down in the lower high

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<v Speaker 2>valley locations and you can't scour it out. Linen is

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<v Speaker 2>in factor.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, I never really thought about like how much that,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, And I'll use the word valley even though

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<v Speaker 1>like I live in a hilly neighborhood and you go

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<v Speaker 1>down a hill and go back up, like in the morning,

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<v Speaker 1>I can feel myself walking into that cold sink.

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<v Speaker 3>You know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>You don't.

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<v Speaker 1>You don't realize how significant that is. But it's it's

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<v Speaker 1>it's a degree change that is significant enough that I

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<v Speaker 1>can feel it as I'm walking. And I always I

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<v Speaker 1>just think that's like really cool.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't know, I'm proplored.

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<v Speaker 1>Everything's flat right.

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<v Speaker 3>Right right, No, And and like I said, you know, the.

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<v Speaker 2>Topography elevation changes the little I call them nooks and crannies, ye, Carilado,

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<v Speaker 2>because that's basically what it is. And you know, I

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<v Speaker 2>live south of Colorado towards Castle Rock, and I'm a

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<v Speaker 2>thousand feet up in elevation, as are you then downtown Denver,

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<v Speaker 2>and yet everybody in the country thinks of Denver's the

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<v Speaker 2>mile high city. Yet Denver is surrounded to the east,

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<v Speaker 2>the south, and the west by higher terrain, and that's

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<v Speaker 2>where a good chunk of people live. And so those

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<v Speaker 2>variations and in the weather center I bought twenty five

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<v Speaker 2>years ago when I moved here, I bought a three

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<v Speaker 2>dimensional map of Colorado to be able to study the

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<v Speaker 2>features here, the mountain ranges, the different names for the ranges,

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<v Speaker 2>how they.

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<v Speaker 3>Sit, where they are, and stuff.

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<v Speaker 2>And every time we hire a new employee onto the

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<v Speaker 2>Pinpoint Weather Team, I show them that map and I say,

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<v Speaker 2>study this and understand how those features and different wind

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<v Speaker 2>directions play into upslope, downslope where there can be cold pockets,

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<v Speaker 2>where there can be warmer, where there can be more snow.

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<v Speaker 2>And it's really a great visual When you look at it,

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<v Speaker 2>you can see, oh yeah, now I know why that's cold.

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<v Speaker 2>And look how low it is compared to the terrain

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<v Speaker 2>around it.

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<v Speaker 1>And that's why I thought thirty one's weather. That's the

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<v Speaker 1>best weather. And that's why Dave Frasier is our favorite meteorologist.

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<v Speaker 1>Dave good to talk to you, my friend. I'll talk

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<v Speaker 1>to you next week.

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<v Speaker 3>Sounds good.

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<v Speaker 2>Enjoying the warm weather heading your way. Sure will thank

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<v Speaker 2>you day, Fraser