Speaker 1: As we do every Wednesday. At the bottom of the hour,
Speaker 1: we like to check.
Speaker 2: In with Fox thirty one's chief meteorologists, and that's chief
Speaker 2: not cheap, totally different kind of meteorologists.
Speaker 1: Dave Frasier, Hi day, Welcome back to the show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, good afternoon. How you doing on this Wednesday?
Speaker 2: I'm doing fine, But I obviously didn't look at the
Speaker 2: weather right because when I left my house in my
Speaker 2: short sleeves, I was fine.
Speaker 1: I got out of my car in the Tech Center
Speaker 1: and I was like, wait, what Winter Game? What is
Speaker 1: happening you?
Speaker 3: You should have stayed at your south command. It's a
Speaker 3: little warmer down here than it is up that way.
Speaker 3: Yeah is yeah, yeah. So we had a weak cold
Speaker 3: front come in last night and it moved from the
Speaker 3: It came down I seventy six from the north and east,
Speaker 3: and behind it we have a cool northeast flow. So
Speaker 3: the farther towards Denver and to the north and east
Speaker 3: of the airport, you're you're traveling into that cooler air.
Speaker 3: There's actually some low clouds kind of hanging out just
Speaker 3: to the east of the airport, and that's kind of
Speaker 3: factoring in to some changes in the forecast today for
Speaker 3: timing of showers and thunderstorms a little bit. We see
Speaker 3: this from time to time where a week cold front
Speaker 3: or even what we call a backwash from big storms
Speaker 3: in the Midwest kind of throw higher humidity and some
Speaker 3: low clouds onto the eastern plains, and that low cloud
Speaker 3: deck limits heating and therefore removes the chance for thunderstorms.
Speaker 3: So where the sun is out down here in the
Speaker 3: Castle Rock area, we think this is the area where
Speaker 3: some storms after three o'clock would fire up, and then
Speaker 3: they'll head to the north and east. It won't be
Speaker 3: a lot of them, but then they'll run into that cooler,
Speaker 3: lower cloud deck and that will kind of cause them
Speaker 3: to decrease and become just more light showers than actual thunderstorm.
Speaker 3: So always fun challenging at this time of the year.
Speaker 1: I have a.
Speaker 2: Question that's not actually a question for you. We were
Speaker 2: just talking about the governor's race, but this is a
Speaker 2: weather question. So I'm going to ask you this question, Mandy,
Speaker 2: could the new governor change tornado watch tornado warning to
Speaker 2: tornado watch tornado here? I am tired of constantly googling it.
Speaker 3: No, I don't know that is a term that is
Speaker 3: used nationally. It has been a term that those both
Speaker 3: of those terms have been around for a long time.
Speaker 3: It's from the National Weather Service. It's on a federal level.
Speaker 3: So no, I do not see where the governor would
Speaker 3: have any authority to do that, and it would cause confusion,
Speaker 3: and I know it can be confusion. The way I
Speaker 3: tell people is watch means be prepared. Okay, if you
Speaker 3: hear a term watch, you need to be prepared. Find
Speaker 3: out what the being prepared is. Is it being prepared
Speaker 3: for lightning or hail or gusty wind, or is it
Speaker 3: in the winter being prepared for potential snow and slick roads.
Speaker 3: So anytime you hear watch, being prepared, when you hear warning,
Speaker 3: you have to act. So in a thunderstorm warning, you're
Speaker 3: going to have lightning, hail, and wind, you need to
Speaker 3: do your best to get inside and ride the storm out.
Speaker 3: If you hear tornado warning, you need to get to
Speaker 3: a safe shelter. Below ground is best. But if you
Speaker 3: don't have a basement, an interior room away from outside
Speaker 3: walls and windows, like a bathroom or a closet is
Speaker 3: the best. So again, watch, be prepared, warning, Act.
Speaker 2: Okay, I have another sassy question from the Common Spirit
Speaker 2: health text line. Dave, here's a sassy question for you.
Speaker 2: Does the hot air coming from the gold Dome change
Speaker 2: the weather?
Speaker 3: Wow, you've got some political people listening today's I'm just
Speaker 3: glad the last question wasn't like Dave Logan's question, would
Speaker 3: you be willing to run for governor? And my question
Speaker 3: would have been, just like you, a flat.
Speaker 1: No, no, not a chance.
Speaker 2: Here's an interesting question, and I think there's a couple
Speaker 2: different aspects to this. Do weather forecasters pay attention to
Speaker 2: other networks forecasts?
Speaker 1: Are you guys ever.
Speaker 2: Checking the competition to see how they are doing, or
Speaker 2: what they're looking at, or any of that stuff to
Speaker 2: kind of compare how you guys do versus them.
Speaker 3: The answer to that is yes, but not to compare, right,
Speaker 3: just to kind of see what they're doing. So we
Speaker 3: make our forecast on our own. We don't even look
Speaker 3: at the National Service when we make it. They are
Speaker 3: the governing body. They have a group of forecasters, great
Speaker 3: forecasters up there in Boulder. They are responsible for the
Speaker 3: safety of the public by issuing the watches. In the warnings.
Speaker 3: We have our own mechanisms by which we can get
Speaker 3: on TV, or on our social platforms or on our
Speaker 3: website to disseminate the same type of information, cautionary information,
Speaker 3: things about where storms are. So we watch the competition
Speaker 3: because yeah, we're all competing, just as you are with
Speaker 3: other radio stations. We're competing against what the product is
Speaker 3: that they're putting on the air. Are they doing something?
Speaker 3: I judge for Emmy Awards and other across the country,
Speaker 3: and I'll look at entries and I'll look to see
Speaker 3: is there's somebody doing something that's different, it's catchy, Is
Speaker 3: a great graphic can illustrate better than something we're doing.
Speaker 3: So we're constantly robin stealing from that perspective, But we
Speaker 3: don't look at them and then go, oh, wait a minute,
Speaker 3: they're going seventy, we're sixty eight. We should probably go seventy.
Speaker 3: So we don't do it from that perspective.
Speaker 1: Wait, there are the radio stations. I wasn't aware.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I have no idea. And you know I
Speaker 2: say that jokingly, but I kind of mean it. I'd
Speaker 2: never pay attention to what the competition is doing because no,
Speaker 2: especially in this you know, nobody is nobody is doing
Speaker 2: exactly what I'm doing. Probably a purpose, but I I'm
Speaker 2: kind of this like you know, Lone Soldier. You're either
Speaker 2: gonna like me or you're not. There's not a lot
Speaker 2: I can do to convince you of otherwise.
Speaker 3: I'm up many And on that note, I will say
Speaker 3: the same thing that watching the competition again, you might
Speaker 3: be able to gain a little something. But I can't
Speaker 3: see them right, same as you. You can't be a
Speaker 3: different host. You can't be roth right, yea, because are
Speaker 3: two different people, right, and that's the same. I'm not
Speaker 3: going to look at somebody who does the presentation and go,
Speaker 3: oh that's cool. I'm going to try and you know,
Speaker 3: be impersonate them. It just doesn't work that way.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on with the text line, Dave,
Speaker 2: but these are all sassy questions, Dave. Is there a
Speaker 2: proper Is there a proper way to do a rain dance?
Speaker 2: So far, the hokey pokey is not working in fruta.
Speaker 3: You know. I don't know if there is a magical
Speaker 3: two step or a tango that will help, but I
Speaker 3: will tell you that I was looking at some statistics
Speaker 3: yesterday and if you take out the big snowstorm we
Speaker 3: had back in the early November. If you removed that
Speaker 3: one storm from the equation for moisture for the end
Speaker 3: of twenty twenty four and where we have been struggling
Speaker 3: here in early twenty twenty five, we are really way behind.
Speaker 3: Those storms had actually helped to pad the bottom line,
Speaker 3: if you will. So for snowfall, we're going to come
Speaker 3: up short for snowfall, and that's not surprising. It would
Speaker 3: be the third year in a row, the actually fourth
Speaker 3: year in a row, that we've been short. You go
Speaker 3: back to twenty twenty one, we were seven inches behind,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty two seven inches. Last year we were twelve inches,
Speaker 3: and this year we're going to be about ten inches.
Speaker 3: So we're going to come up short. And for moisture
Speaker 3: here in March and April, our growing seasons, it's been stingy,
Speaker 3: and so you know, we had that great rainy kind
Speaker 3: of Friday with the snow mixing in last week and
Speaker 3: it just kind of stayed all day, and you would
Speaker 3: have thought the totals would have been much much higher,
Speaker 3: and they weren't. They were meager, tense, two tenths of
Speaker 3: an inch. We just need better moisture and I just
Speaker 3: don't have anything right now in the next ten days
Speaker 3: other than be scattered storms. And if you get under
Speaker 3: one of those scattered storms, you're fortunate. It may come
Speaker 3: with some wind, lightning, and some small ale, but you're
Speaker 3: fortunate to get the moisture.
Speaker 2: This texter said, Hey, Mandy, please ask Dave if there's
Speaker 2: any basis for the inn like a lion out like
Speaker 2: a lamb phenomena for March.
Speaker 3: I mean it's an old saying. Sometimes it works, sometimes
Speaker 3: it doesn't. Sometimes both in and out can be both
Speaker 3: lions and both lambs. So it is one of those
Speaker 3: that the hope is if it comes in like a lamb,
Speaker 3: that it will turn like a lion, meaning we get
Speaker 3: more active weather or the reverse. Either way, it doesn't
Speaker 3: dictate what we might see in so far, March was
Speaker 3: a lamb, and apolsmen a lamb, and let's hope we
Speaker 3: get some more moisture because aple showers bring may flowers.
Speaker 3: If we don't get the aple shallers, we're going to
Speaker 3: be struggling to keep our grasses looking green. Trem as well.
Speaker 2: Last question for you, I've got Rick and Littleton. He
Speaker 2: wants to know if there's going to be another hard
Speaker 2: frost in the rest of this spring.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, we're starting to get to those questions.
Speaker 3: We still haven't reached the average date, which is in
Speaker 3: early May, so I would caution people everything's turning green,
Speaker 3: do some watering by hand. I know that what people
Speaker 3: want to know, is it okay you know to turn Yeah.
Speaker 3: I hedge my bets on those, because I've said it
Speaker 3: many times with you. I don't want to be the
Speaker 3: guy that gives me all clear and all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: the forecast the eight games changes and we're back below
Speaker 3: freezing and people are busting pipe. So I think you
Speaker 3: just stay the course, hang on, do some handwatering, connect
Speaker 3: the hoses if you want to stay away from planting
Speaker 3: anything in the ground or potting anything. I mean you
Speaker 3: could pot that you've got to bring it in. But
Speaker 3: at this point I would say, you know, I'm not
Speaker 3: seeing any cold snaps, but I'm still seeing temperatures in
Speaker 3: the mid to upper thirties overnight.
Speaker 1: All right, that's Dave Frasier.
Speaker 2: You can watch his forecast along with the other crack
Speaker 2: squad of meteorologists over there at Fox thirty one. Dave,
Speaker 2: we will talk to you next week, my friend.
Speaker 3: All Right, enjoy your Sassity listards.
Speaker 1: They are on fire today.
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