Speaker 1: It's time to talk to my former friend Dave Frasier,
Speaker 1: who totally didn't call me and let me know that
Speaker 1: I could have seen the Aurora borealis last night if
Speaker 1: i'd only looked outside.
Speaker 2: What the heck, Dave, you were the only one. I
Speaker 2: ran down to the weather deck when we started getting
Speaker 2: pictures in and looked out from downtown Denver. Obviously, the
Speaker 2: city lights obscured any chance for me to see it.
Speaker 2: Some folks in Denver were able to see a hint
Speaker 2: of it. But boy, some of the pictures we got
Speaker 2: last night. I love it when our viewers connect us
Speaker 2: with what's going on. Yeah, snowstorms, they're taking pictures. But
Speaker 2: the pictures we saw from the western slope to the
Speaker 2: eastern plains, the clouds cleared just in time, and it
Speaker 2: was probably I went to Alaska years ago to see it,
Speaker 2: and I did. I will tell you the pictures that
Speaker 2: we saw. And of course iPhones today and the technologies
Speaker 2: right phenomenal. But the pictures were more vibrant. The greens,
Speaker 2: the rich greens, and the reds and the purple shadings.
Speaker 2: They were just unbelievable. But the fun anything is it
Speaker 2: was not expected and that's what was odd Scient's weather Listen.
Speaker 2: That's not my forte but Science weather is one of
Speaker 2: these things that they've been dabbling in in years. And
Speaker 2: some of the graphics we put on TV showing where
Speaker 2: the viewing line is, those things haven't really come into
Speaker 2: play till like twenty twenty, so they're kind of new.
Speaker 2: And they use a G scale. It's kind of think
Speaker 2: of a hurricane scale, you know, zero as low as fives,
Speaker 2: And what we had last night was a G four.
Speaker 2: So when I went to work yesterday, I have set
Speaker 2: on my phone to get alerts. I get weather alerts
Speaker 2: from the National Weather Service. I get earthquake alerts when
Speaker 2: they're larger than a six point zero the Richter scale,
Speaker 2: and I get geomagnetic storm alerts, and so we had
Speaker 2: gotten one yesterday, and all of us in the weather
Speaker 2: suder we're talking about it. But it was scheduled for
Speaker 2: Wednesday today, this evening. So I'm walking through the newsroom
Speaker 2: last night and our executive producer.
Speaker 3: Chris says, Dave Roa bory Alis tonight.
Speaker 2: I said no, no, tomorrow night. He says, I don't think.
Speaker 2: So I go over to his desk and here come
Speaker 2: the pictures, and I'm like, so, I think there was
Speaker 2: either a miscalculation in when it arrived, or it was
Speaker 2: stronger than they thought, or it came sooner than they thought.
Speaker 2: But it was certainly vivid.
Speaker 3: And it was high on the scale.
Speaker 2: It was a G four and that is when the
Speaker 2: viewing line can drop far south, even into the Southern States.
Speaker 2: And we had a front row seat last night.
Speaker 1: And what exactly causes the Aurora boreality, Dave, It's.
Speaker 2: A geomagnetic storm in the atmosphere and it just causes
Speaker 2: an electrical storm where the colors are kind of streaming around.
Speaker 3: Again, it's a little.
Speaker 2: Above my knowledge of space, weather and everything, but it's basically,
Speaker 2: I like to say it this way. The sun burps
Speaker 2: this big giant ball of flare and it just races
Speaker 2: through space. And of course the biggest concern is to
Speaker 2: communications and satellites and stuff like that. It can cause
Speaker 2: interference and you'll hear stuff about you know, airlines and
Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: So it just kind of messes with our electrical fields
Speaker 3: right and up high, you.
Speaker 2: Know, all those kind of gases and everything floating around.
Speaker 1: I have seen it from an airplane flying over the
Speaker 1: Arctic Circle going from San Francisco to Frankfurt, Germany. But
Speaker 1: I've never seen it from the ground. And you didn't
Speaker 1: call me, you big jert. No, I'm just kidding, Dave.
Speaker 1: When are we gonna get snow?
Speaker 3: When?
Speaker 2: Is?
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, this is not a complaint.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I am enjoying the heck out of this weather. Last
Speaker 1: weekend we went hiking and it was absolutely magnificent. But
Speaker 1: when can we expect some kind of change in this
Speaker 1: weather pattern? And you know I'm asking about when an't
Speaker 1: we gonna get snow?
Speaker 2: Days? Yeah, I I'm always in the camp of don't
Speaker 2: give up, wait until the season's over, But I'm starting
Speaker 2: to cross over the line and get into that get
Speaker 2: at the back of the complaint line on the lack
Speaker 2: of snow we've been talking about. We've been talking about
Speaker 2: a pattern change. We still see that we said sometime
Speaker 2: after the seventeenth. That's still there. I'll give you for instance,
Speaker 2: on Monday and over the weekend, the forecast called for
Speaker 2: us to get out of these warm seventies by Saturday
Speaker 2: and start to get into the fifth these and then
Speaker 2: forties next week. Well, in the last couple of days
Speaker 2: we bumped Saturday back into the sixties, and today I
Speaker 2: had to bump Sunday back into the sixties. The pattern
Speaker 2: change is still there, but it's being held up just
Speaker 2: a little bit. And that's a little disconcerting to me,
Speaker 2: because while you do have your overnight lows close to
Speaker 2: freezing or at about twenty nine or thirty degrees, if
Speaker 2: you can get a little bit of moisture, you can
Speaker 2: get it to change over. I'm just not seeing a
Speaker 2: robust storm with enough moisture that we would be able
Speaker 2: to lay down what would be considered a measurable snow.
Speaker 2: So I think there's a chance Sunday late evening that
Speaker 2: we could get a rain shower. It's just looking too warm.
Speaker 2: I think there's a stray shower Monday, don't hold your breath.
Speaker 2: And then I think Tuesday and Wednesday, as we finally
Speaker 2: start to slide into the forties to about fifty degrees,
Speaker 2: if there's enough shower activity, and I think it is
Speaker 2: rain at this point, maybe we mixed in a couple
Speaker 2: of snowflakes. I'm just not confident at this point to
Speaker 2: the next seven to ten days we will see measurable
Speaker 2: snow in Denver. So of account of how many snowless
Speaker 2: days we had yesterday was two hundred and seven hour
Speaker 2: or two hundred eight I think we continue on that
Speaker 2: count until we can see something more significant.
Speaker 1: I will take that. I have no issue with any
Speaker 1: of that. I like I said, this fall has been
Speaker 1: absolutely glorious. Tons of people asking on the text line,
Speaker 1: are we going to have more Aurora borealis tonight or
Speaker 1: did we miss it?
Speaker 2: No? So here's the thing. I pulled that up because
Speaker 2: I figured that was going to be a question. I'm
Speaker 2: not going to say no. I'm not going to say no.
Speaker 2: Number One, last night, the clouds cleared perfectly. Tonight clouds
Speaker 2: are going to be a little more stubborn. I think
Speaker 2: if you're going to have a chance, you have to
Speaker 2: go away from the base of the foothills and out
Speaker 2: onto the eastern plains. And I think you've got to
Speaker 2: go north to be able to see it. The viewing
Speaker 2: line last night was south of Colorado, almost down to Albuquerque. Tonight,
Speaker 2: that viewing line is north of Colorado, kind of right
Speaker 2: on the border. Okay. So, and the geomagnetic threshold that
Speaker 2: I talked about that four that we got last night,
Speaker 2: some of that lingered into this morning as of right
Speaker 2: now and through the evening that's going to drop to
Speaker 2: a three and a two and a one, So I
Speaker 2: think it's kind of slipped away. So I think being forecast,
Speaker 2: if you will, for that event happened last night, It's
Speaker 2: still possible tonight, but at a much much lower intensity.
Speaker 2: And I think you do have to go farther north
Speaker 2: if you want to try and chase the lights.
Speaker 3: Dave.
Speaker 1: How another texter said, does Dave know how long it's
Speaker 1: been since the northern lights were visible this far south?
Speaker 2: I don't, but all I can tell you is, again,
Speaker 2: it's one of those rare occasions here. I've talked to people.
Speaker 2: People were emailing in and saying they've lived here fifty
Speaker 2: years and while they've seen them at times, never saw
Speaker 2: the brilliant show that they saw last night. So I
Speaker 2: think that tells the story. And what's amazing to me, Mandy,
Speaker 2: was it was not anything anybody was expecting. It was
Speaker 2: not like a lunar eclipse.
Speaker 3: Right so right eclips where we knew we'd and months
Speaker 3: in advance.
Speaker 2: And people were expecting it, and we're going outside. But
Speaker 2: the vast majority of people who somehow looked out their
Speaker 2: window at the right time and went out and photographed.
Speaker 2: It is just amazing to me because it wasn't anything.
Speaker 2: I mean, I would have been in my kitchen at
Speaker 2: home if I was off with the vinds down and
Speaker 2: never known had we knocked gotten the pictures at the station.
Speaker 2: Everything changed right around six to six thirty and the
Speaker 2: picture started coming in.
Speaker 3: I'm literally outside on the weather.
Speaker 2: Deck going do you see You know, in today's society
Speaker 2: with AI and m you got to be.
Speaker 3: Careful at pictures and are they.
Speaker 2: Rail and tornadoes and all this kind of stuff. So
Speaker 2: my first gut instinct was to be you know, safe there, No, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's not going to happen till tomorrow. And then the
Speaker 2: picture just kept coming and wow.
Speaker 1: One of my listeners just sent me one from Lake
Speaker 1: Mac Lake McConaughey, and it's absolutely it looks fake. It's stunning.
Speaker 1: So thanks for nothing, Dave Frasier for not calling me
Speaker 1: and let me know to look out my window. I
Speaker 1: missed it. Have a great week, my friend. We'll talk
Speaker 1: to you next week.
Speaker 2: All right, you.
Speaker 3: Guys do enjoy the weekend to head all right?
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