Speaker 1: A man who controls the weather here in the Denver Metro. No,
Speaker 1: I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Dave Frasier, Hi, buddy, Welcome to
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 2: Hey there, I'm glad to be with you on this Wednesday.
Speaker 2: I can't believe you're making a rod wait for burles
Speaker 2: while we talk weather.
Speaker 1: Well, we did at the end of the show, so
Speaker 1: you know, we'll start with you and then we'll end
Speaker 1: with you know, beautiful women doing Halloween burlesque here in
Speaker 1: the studio. So we got a lot on our plate.
Speaker 1: I already have two standard questions that we have to
Speaker 1: ask every year at this time. First of all, Dave Frasier,
Speaker 1: when are you blowing out your sprinklers?
Speaker 2: Not yet? Now yet? My lawn looks fantastic, as do
Speaker 2: a lot of lawns that I see driving up and
Speaker 2: down the front range, especially those that had benefited from rain.
Speaker 2: We had some decent showers last night, so I always
Speaker 2: pay attention to the forecast lows, and when I start
Speaker 2: to see those lows being a little more consistent and
Speaker 2: closer to the freezing mark, I sometimes will just drain
Speaker 2: the external pipe so that that doesn't freeze and crack,
Speaker 2: which is an easy thing to do, but may not
Speaker 2: blow them all out just yet. I'll wait until I
Speaker 2: see something it's going to be a little more permanent. Remember,
Speaker 2: the sprinklers are way down. The lines are in the ground,
Speaker 2: so they're protected by the warm temperatures in the ground.
Speaker 2: It takes a while for cold to penetrate. But it's
Speaker 2: that external pipe that I'll keep an eye out. If
Speaker 2: I see a thirty two, thirty three, thirty four, I'll
Speaker 2: probably blow it out and maybe turn them back on,
Speaker 2: because you know how we can ebb and flow in
Speaker 2: September and October, going from freezing nights to very warm
Speaker 2: stretches at times.
Speaker 1: So now let's ask question number two, which almost goes
Speaker 1: with question number one, but not really, Dave, when will
Speaker 1: the Metro be getting our first measurable snowfall?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we get these kind of nips of fall in
Speaker 2: the morning.
Speaker 3: Like this morning, lovely this morning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going to have more of that, by the way,
Speaker 2: moving forward, we'll have a few showers around tonight. Not
Speaker 2: a lot going on, but there will be some showers
Speaker 2: and then we kind of enter a dry period. We'll
Speaker 2: have overnight lows right around forty eight to fifty afternoon
Speaker 2: temperatures close to eighty degrees, which is about average, a
Speaker 2: couple of degrees above average. So we've got a nice
Speaker 2: stretch of weather coming for the next seven to ten days.
Speaker 2: Really going to feel like fall and warm temperatures at
Speaker 2: this time of the year, seventy eight, seventy nine, eighty degrees,
Speaker 2: like a warm blanket. It's not really heap by any means.
Speaker 2: You know, the question always comes up at December year
Speaker 2: we start to look at the long range models. You know,
Speaker 2: Denver's average first snowfall measurable, which is a tenth of
Speaker 2: an inch or more, is around the eighteenth of October.
Speaker 2: We're not obviously there yet. Last year we waited till
Speaker 2: November fifth before we got that first snowfall. And then
Speaker 2: back in twenty twenty one we had the latest first snowfall,
Speaker 2: which was December tenth. I think everybody remembers that one
Speaker 2: was like, where's the snow? But I will tell you, Mandy,
Speaker 2: looking at some of the computer models and some of
Speaker 2: the prognostications of what might be coming, We've got warm
Speaker 2: Pacific waters to the west, we've got colder waters.
Speaker 3: To the east.
Speaker 2: And what that does is kind of open up Canada
Speaker 2: to and the Arctic to kind of push cold air
Speaker 2: down our way. So we're thinking as we head into
Speaker 2: the winter that we last year we kind of ebbed
Speaker 2: and flow with snow. We came up about eight to
Speaker 2: nine inches shy of the normal, which is fifty six
Speaker 2: for Denver, and we had bouts of snow, and then
Speaker 2: we had periods where it didn't snow. I think this
Speaker 2: year is going to be a little more normal, and
Speaker 2: I do think we're going to get bouts of cold
Speaker 2: air that clipped northeast Colorado. Whether or not it backs
Speaker 2: into Denver, we'll see, but certainly the northeast plains. And
Speaker 2: I think once that cold air breaks free, because you've
Speaker 2: opened up the gates to the Arctic, it may stick
Speaker 2: around for long periods of time. So maybe, you know, November,
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving to Christmas and everything could be a cold period
Speaker 2: for us. So I'm expecting ebbs and flows of cold
Speaker 2: blasts and maybe in an average season of snowfall, which
Speaker 2: would mean the heaviest snow would come in like March,
Speaker 2: you know, February, March, and April to get us to
Speaker 2: that fifty sixth.
Speaker 1: Well, look to me, looking at the radar, as I
Speaker 1: was checking the radar as one of the storms was
Speaker 1: going through in the last few days. Looks like the
Speaker 1: mountains have been getting a little bit of snow. What
Speaker 1: kind of the snowfall are they getting up there? I mean,
Speaker 1: are we talking you know, half an inch or or
Speaker 1: inch or what are you looking at there?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I was on the air last night during our
Speaker 2: nine to ten and I could see on our radar
Speaker 2: colors the snow is blue and it was literally you
Speaker 2: could see it on radar, was clipping the cond of Divie.
Speaker 2: So I asked one of our producers to go ahead
Speaker 2: and pull some cameras up near the Eisenhower Tunnel and
Speaker 2: we found it and it was on the grass, and
Speaker 2: you're right, it was about a half an inch maybe
Speaker 2: a little more. It did not stick to the roads.
Speaker 2: Roads were just wet. Obviously we haven't gotten that cold
Speaker 2: blash yet, but yeah, mountains have seen several battles of
Speaker 2: a sprinkling or a smattering of snow, and that's going
Speaker 2: to continue. They'll get a little bit of that tonight
Speaker 2: as we get some rain showers here. They'll get a
Speaker 2: rain snow mixed, or maybe a little bit of snow.
Speaker 2: I think Trail Ridge Road was closed this morning because
Speaker 2: they had some icy conditions, so the moisture up there
Speaker 2: kind of froze for a little bit. I don't know
Speaker 2: if they've reopened, but that's typical for this time of
Speaker 2: the year where they'll start to get a little bit
Speaker 2: of that and whether or not it sticks on the roads,
Speaker 2: probably not. We got to wait a little bit for
Speaker 2: the gold.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm going to this question from our text line.
Speaker 1: Please ask Dave about the ever increasing Denver tempt records
Speaker 1: as it relates to the perpetual.
Speaker 3: Move east of official reporting.
Speaker 1: Sites, originally near the Platte River, then Stapleton Airport location,
Speaker 1: and now even further into the high desert surrounding DIA.
Speaker 1: Also the impact of an ever more sprawling metro area
Speaker 1: of more asphalt and fewer trees.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: So let's take the first question first, because those are
Speaker 1: two very different questions in my view.
Speaker 3: And the first question, I mean, how.
Speaker 1: Valid are those concerns because we all know, like I
Speaker 1: live in Douglas County, Dave, and when I look at
Speaker 1: the weather, like we were going to Golden on Sunday
Speaker 1: to see a play, I checked the weather in Golden
Speaker 1: and it's like a completely different state right than my.
Speaker 3: Weather in Parker.
Speaker 1: So it feels like that's really significant, and maybe there
Speaker 1: should be an asterisk on some of these, like hottest
Speaker 1: temperatures ever since we moved out to DIA.
Speaker 2: There is on the National Weather Service website. And I
Speaker 2: have brought this question up many times, and we get
Speaker 2: this question a lot. Denver's official recording in its record
Speaker 2: keeping since the late eighteen hundreds, that site has moved
Speaker 2: four times twice downtown, once out at Stapleton, and then
Speaker 2: finally in the nineties out to Denver International. The temperatures
Speaker 2: were measured at Denver International when they moved the stick.
Speaker 2: The snow recordings lagged a little behobbling behind before it
Speaker 2: went out there, and there is an image that shows
Speaker 2: that the historical amounts of snow in a season is
Speaker 2: higher over the Denver metro area points west and south
Speaker 2: than it is as you migrate out to the airport
Speaker 2: and you can see it. And so they kind of
Speaker 2: mapped out the differences between the sites downtown Denver, the
Speaker 2: Stapleton area, which is just a little further east and north,
Speaker 2: and then of course out at THEA and you can
Speaker 2: see the progression that as you go to the north
Speaker 2: and east the snow totals are lower. That would also
Speaker 2: go into the part of the question about the temperatures. Obviously,
Speaker 2: Denver's footprint has sprawled, and that impact of the heat
Speaker 2: island as we call it. The concrete, the buildings, the
Speaker 2: spansion of the roadways and everything plays into a warmer environment.
Speaker 2: So the question is valid, and I really don't have
Speaker 2: an answer to. You know, how we compare records. We
Speaker 2: argue amongst ourselves, as Meeta dologers all the time. You know,
Speaker 2: we hit a record high, when what record did we break? Well,
Speaker 2: we broke a record from the eighteen hundreds, Well, how
Speaker 2: do we compare that when the censor for the eighteen
Speaker 2: hundreds was so many miles to the west. So it's
Speaker 2: a challenge and I always tell people it's just it's
Speaker 2: just a barometer. It's just a comparison, right. It's not
Speaker 2: a perfect record because it moved four times, but it's
Speaker 2: a comparison to say today was a record high day.
Speaker 2: Today was a record cold day, so there was a
Speaker 2: record snowfall amount. It's a comparison to kind of put
Speaker 2: the event in perspective, albeit not maybe exactly scientific and
Speaker 2: think about it. We will look at temperatures now, Mandy,
Speaker 2: in tents of a degree. There's some rounding going on
Speaker 2: when it comes to whether or not we're at an
Speaker 2: average or not. Right now, we're four tenths of an
Speaker 2: inch behind for the average for the months of September.
Speaker 2: They weren't taking temperatures in the eighteen hundreds and early
Speaker 2: nineteen hundreds and tenths of a degree.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, there was like a guy walking outside
Speaker 1: putting his finger up and going, yep, it feels like
Speaker 1: thirty two to me.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, exactly exactly. So listen, take it,
Speaker 2: take it as a comparison, but don't take it as
Speaker 2: a hard line. Yeah. No, this is the hottest we've ever.
Speaker 3: Bet right, Okay, So I just want to continue.
Speaker 1: I need you to continue to order up more weather
Speaker 1: like today for the next you know, for the next
Speaker 1: couple of months. Would be great if you could just
Speaker 1: whip that up in your little cauldron, your little weatherman cauldron,
Speaker 1: and make it happen.
Speaker 3: I sure what appreciated, Dave.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I am with you, guys, both you and a Rod.
Speaker 2: I'm loving the morning lows in the forties. I love
Speaker 2: the afternoon seventy five to eighty. I love the sunny skies,
Speaker 2: but a little bit of rain has been helpful. We'll
Speaker 2: get a little bit of that today, and if we
Speaker 2: do take that turn, we start to get the blast
Speaker 2: of cold and the snow is not far behind. I'm
Speaker 2: okay with that too. I love all four seasons, and
Speaker 2: that's why I love living in Colorado.
Speaker 3: One last point for you.
Speaker 1: It's not really a question, just a request. Can you
Speaker 1: please ask Dave to include you Ray in his weather forecast.
Speaker 1: We really don't know what the weather's going to be.
Speaker 1: The apps are always wrong saying it's sunny when it's raining,
Speaker 1: snowing when it's clear.
Speaker 3: So you Ray is asking for help, Dave, if you
Speaker 3: could just throw that in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have on our map tell you righte. We
Speaker 2: don't have you Ray. We get that from viewers all
Speaker 2: the time. Everybody wants their town on. We try and
Speaker 2: pick towns that have sensors that we can rely on
Speaker 2: right and that have that We have spatial recognition, if
Speaker 2: you will. We have towns spaced out enough on our
Speaker 2: maps that you can kind of get a perspective of
Speaker 2: what things are going to be like. But We get
Speaker 2: requests all the time to add certain towns, and sometimes
Speaker 2: that town just doesn't have a sensor that we can use,
Speaker 2: and other areas they're too crowded. We've got a group
Speaker 2: of cities that are on top of each other, and
Speaker 2: then you've got Urray and Ridgeway and tell you ride
Speaker 2: in the Southwest, and so we have tell you ride. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: I don't know if I'll be able to wedge Uray
Speaker 2: in down there, but I understand that can all.
Speaker 3: Right, Dave Frasier, thanks so much.
Speaker 1: You can see his very accurate forecast on Fox thirty
Speaker 1: one unless you're in u Ray.
Speaker 3: And we'll talk to you next week. My friend, have
Speaker 3: a good one.
Speaker 2: Day, have fun this afternoon. I'll be listening, all right.
Speaker 3: Thanks man,