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<v Speaker 1>As we do every Wednesday. At the bottom of the hour,

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<v Speaker 1>we like to check.

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<v Speaker 2>In with Fox thirty one's chief meteorologists, and that's chief

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<v Speaker 2>not cheap, totally different kind of meteorologists.

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<v Speaker 1>Dave Frasier, Hi day, Welcome back to the show.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, good afternoon. How you doing on this Wednesday?

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<v Speaker 2>I'm doing fine, But I obviously didn't look at the

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<v Speaker 2>weather right because when I left my house in my

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<v Speaker 2>short sleeves, I was fine.

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<v Speaker 1>I got out of my car in the Tech Center

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<v Speaker 1>and I was like, wait, what Winter Game? What is

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<v Speaker 1>happening you?

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<v Speaker 3>You should have stayed at your south command. It's a

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<v Speaker 3>little warmer down here than it is up that way.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah is yeah, yeah. So we had a weak cold

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<v Speaker 3>front come in last night and it moved from the

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<v Speaker 3>It came down I seventy six from the north and east,

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<v Speaker 3>and behind it we have a cool northeast flow. So

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<v Speaker 3>the farther towards Denver and to the north and east

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<v Speaker 3>of the airport, you're you're traveling into that cooler air.

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<v Speaker 3>There's actually some low clouds kind of hanging out just

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<v Speaker 3>to the east of the airport, and that's kind of

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<v Speaker 3>factoring in to some changes in the forecast today for

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<v Speaker 3>timing of showers and thunderstorms a little bit. We see

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<v Speaker 3>this from time to time where a week cold front

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<v Speaker 3>or even what we call a backwash from big storms

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<v Speaker 3>in the Midwest kind of throw higher humidity and some

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<v Speaker 3>low clouds onto the eastern plains, and that low cloud

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<v Speaker 3>deck limits heating and therefore removes the chance for thunderstorms.

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<v Speaker 3>So where the sun is out down here in the

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<v Speaker 3>Castle Rock area, we think this is the area where

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<v Speaker 3>some storms after three o'clock would fire up, and then

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<v Speaker 3>they'll head to the north and east. It won't be

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<v Speaker 3>a lot of them, but then they'll run into that cooler,

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<v Speaker 3>lower cloud deck and that will kind of cause them

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<v Speaker 3>to decrease and become just more light showers than actual thunderstorm.

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<v Speaker 3>So always fun challenging at this time of the year.

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<v Speaker 1>I have a.

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<v Speaker 2>Question that's not actually a question for you. We were

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<v Speaker 2>just talking about the governor's race, but this is a

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<v Speaker 2>weather question. So I'm going to ask you this question, Mandy,

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<v Speaker 2>could the new governor change tornado watch tornado warning to

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<v Speaker 2>tornado watch tornado here? I am tired of constantly googling it.

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<v Speaker 3>No, I don't know that is a term that is

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<v Speaker 3>used nationally. It has been a term that those both

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<v Speaker 3>of those terms have been around for a long time.

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<v Speaker 3>It's from the National Weather Service. It's on a federal level.

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<v Speaker 3>So no, I do not see where the governor would

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<v Speaker 3>have any authority to do that, and it would cause confusion,

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<v Speaker 3>and I know it can be confusion. The way I

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<v Speaker 3>tell people is watch means be prepared. Okay, if you

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<v Speaker 3>hear a term watch, you need to be prepared. Find

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<v Speaker 3>out what the being prepared is. Is it being prepared

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<v Speaker 3>for lightning or hail or gusty wind, or is it

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<v Speaker 3>in the winter being prepared for potential snow and slick roads.

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<v Speaker 3>So anytime you hear watch, being prepared, when you hear warning,

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<v Speaker 3>you have to act. So in a thunderstorm warning, you're

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<v Speaker 3>going to have lightning, hail, and wind, you need to

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<v Speaker 3>do your best to get inside and ride the storm out.

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<v Speaker 3>If you hear tornado warning, you need to get to

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<v Speaker 3>a safe shelter. Below ground is best. But if you

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<v Speaker 3>don't have a basement, an interior room away from outside

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<v Speaker 3>walls and windows, like a bathroom or a closet is

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<v Speaker 3>the best. So again, watch, be prepared, warning, Act.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, I have another sassy question from the Common Spirit

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<v Speaker 2>health text line. Dave, here's a sassy question for you.

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<v Speaker 2>Does the hot air coming from the gold Dome change

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<v Speaker 2>the weather?

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<v Speaker 3>Wow, you've got some political people listening today's I'm just

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<v Speaker 3>glad the last question wasn't like Dave Logan's question, would

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<v Speaker 3>you be willing to run for governor? And my question

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<v Speaker 3>would have been, just like you, a flat.

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<v Speaker 1>No, no, not a chance.

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<v Speaker 2>Here's an interesting question, and I think there's a couple

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<v Speaker 2>different aspects to this. Do weather forecasters pay attention to

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<v Speaker 2>other networks forecasts?

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<v Speaker 1>Are you guys ever.

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<v Speaker 2>Checking the competition to see how they are doing, or

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<v Speaker 2>what they're looking at, or any of that stuff to

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<v Speaker 2>kind of compare how you guys do versus them.

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<v Speaker 3>The answer to that is yes, but not to compare, right,

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<v Speaker 3>just to kind of see what they're doing. So we

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<v Speaker 3>make our forecast on our own. We don't even look

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<v Speaker 3>at the National Service when we make it. They are

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<v Speaker 3>the governing body. They have a group of forecasters, great

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<v Speaker 3>forecasters up there in Boulder. They are responsible for the

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<v Speaker 3>safety of the public by issuing the watches. In the warnings.

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<v Speaker 3>We have our own mechanisms by which we can get

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<v Speaker 3>on TV, or on our social platforms or on our

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<v Speaker 3>website to disseminate the same type of information, cautionary information,

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<v Speaker 3>things about where storms are. So we watch the competition

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<v Speaker 3>because yeah, we're all competing, just as you are with

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<v Speaker 3>other radio stations. We're competing against what the product is

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<v Speaker 3>that they're putting on the air. Are they doing something?

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<v Speaker 3>I judge for Emmy Awards and other across the country,

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<v Speaker 3>and I'll look at entries and I'll look to see

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<v Speaker 3>is there's somebody doing something that's different, it's catchy, Is

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<v Speaker 3>a great graphic can illustrate better than something we're doing.

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<v Speaker 3>So we're constantly robin stealing from that perspective, But we

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<v Speaker 3>don't look at them and then go, oh, wait a minute,

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<v Speaker 3>they're going seventy, we're sixty eight. We should probably go seventy.

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<v Speaker 3>So we don't do it from that perspective.

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<v Speaker 1>Wait, there are the radio stations. I wasn't aware.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm sorry, I have no idea. And you know I

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<v Speaker 2>say that jokingly, but I kind of mean it. I'd

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<v Speaker 2>never pay attention to what the competition is doing because no,

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<v Speaker 2>especially in this you know, nobody is nobody is doing

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<v Speaker 2>exactly what I'm doing. Probably a purpose, but I I'm

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<v Speaker 2>kind of this like you know, Lone Soldier. You're either

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<v Speaker 2>gonna like me or you're not. There's not a lot

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<v Speaker 2>I can do to convince you of otherwise.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm up many And on that note, I will say

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<v Speaker 3>the same thing that watching the competition again, you might

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<v Speaker 3>be able to gain a little something. But I can't

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<v Speaker 3>see them right, same as you. You can't be a

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<v Speaker 3>different host. You can't be roth right, yea, because are

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<v Speaker 3>two different people, right, and that's the same. I'm not

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<v Speaker 3>going to look at somebody who does the presentation and go,

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<v Speaker 3>oh that's cool. I'm going to try and you know,

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<v Speaker 3>be impersonate them. It just doesn't work that way.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know what's going on with the text line, Dave,

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<v Speaker 2>but these are all sassy questions, Dave. Is there a

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<v Speaker 2>proper Is there a proper way to do a rain dance?

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<v Speaker 2>So far, the hokey pokey is not working in fruta.

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<v Speaker 3>You know. I don't know if there is a magical

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<v Speaker 3>two step or a tango that will help, but I

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<v Speaker 3>will tell you that I was looking at some statistics

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<v Speaker 3>yesterday and if you take out the big snowstorm we

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<v Speaker 3>had back in the early November. If you removed that

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<v Speaker 3>one storm from the equation for moisture for the end

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<v Speaker 3>of twenty twenty four and where we have been struggling

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<v Speaker 3>here in early twenty twenty five, we are really way behind.

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<v Speaker 3>Those storms had actually helped to pad the bottom line,

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<v Speaker 3>if you will. So for snowfall, we're going to come

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<v Speaker 3>up short for snowfall, and that's not surprising. It would

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<v Speaker 3>be the third year in a row, the actually fourth

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<v Speaker 3>year in a row, that we've been short. You go

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<v Speaker 3>back to twenty twenty one, we were seven inches behind,

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<v Speaker 3>twenty twenty two seven inches. Last year we were twelve inches,

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<v Speaker 3>and this year we're going to be about ten inches.

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<v Speaker 3>So we're going to come up short. And for moisture

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<v Speaker 3>here in March and April, our growing seasons, it's been stingy,

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<v Speaker 3>and so you know, we had that great rainy kind

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<v Speaker 3>of Friday with the snow mixing in last week and

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<v Speaker 3>it just kind of stayed all day, and you would

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<v Speaker 3>have thought the totals would have been much much higher,

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<v Speaker 3>and they weren't. They were meager, tense, two tenths of

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<v Speaker 3>an inch. We just need better moisture and I just

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<v Speaker 3>don't have anything right now in the next ten days

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<v Speaker 3>other than be scattered storms. And if you get under

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<v Speaker 3>one of those scattered storms, you're fortunate. It may come

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<v Speaker 3>with some wind, lightning, and some small ale, but you're

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<v Speaker 3>fortunate to get the moisture.

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<v Speaker 2>This texter said, Hey, Mandy, please ask Dave if there's

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<v Speaker 2>any basis for the inn like a lion out like

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<v Speaker 2>a lamb phenomena for March.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean it's an old saying. Sometimes it works, sometimes

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<v Speaker 3>it doesn't. Sometimes both in and out can be both

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<v Speaker 3>lions and both lambs. So it is one of those

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<v Speaker 3>that the hope is if it comes in like a lamb,

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<v Speaker 3>that it will turn like a lion, meaning we get

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<v Speaker 3>more active weather or the reverse. Either way, it doesn't

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<v Speaker 3>dictate what we might see in so far, March was

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<v Speaker 3>a lamb, and apolsmen a lamb, and let's hope we

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<v Speaker 3>get some more moisture because aple showers bring may flowers.

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<v Speaker 3>If we don't get the aple shallers, we're going to

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<v Speaker 3>be struggling to keep our grasses looking green. Trem as well.

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<v Speaker 2>Last question for you, I've got Rick and Littleton. He

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<v Speaker 2>wants to know if there's going to be another hard

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<v Speaker 2>frost in the rest of this spring.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, you know, we're starting to get to those questions.

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<v Speaker 3>We still haven't reached the average date, which is in

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<v Speaker 3>early May, so I would caution people everything's turning green,

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<v Speaker 3>do some watering by hand. I know that what people

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<v Speaker 3>want to know, is it okay you know to turn Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>I hedge my bets on those, because I've said it

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<v Speaker 3>many times with you. I don't want to be the

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<v Speaker 3>guy that gives me all clear and all of a sudden,

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<v Speaker 3>the forecast the eight games changes and we're back below

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<v Speaker 3>freezing and people are busting pipe. So I think you

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<v Speaker 3>just stay the course, hang on, do some handwatering, connect

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<v Speaker 3>the hoses if you want to stay away from planting

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<v Speaker 3>anything in the ground or potting anything. I mean you

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<v Speaker 3>could pot that you've got to bring it in. But

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<v Speaker 3>at this point I would say, you know, I'm not

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<v Speaker 3>seeing any cold snaps, but I'm still seeing temperatures in

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<v Speaker 3>the mid to upper thirties overnight.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, that's Dave Frasier.

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<v Speaker 2>You can watch his forecast along with the other crack

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<v Speaker 2>squad of meteorologists over there at Fox thirty one. Dave,

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<v Speaker 2>we will talk to you next week, my friend.

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<v Speaker 3>All Right, enjoy your Sassity listards.

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<v Speaker 1>They are on fire today.

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<v Speaker 2>You people, you sassy, sassy people on the text line

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<v Speaker 2>sassy