Speaker 1: After yesterday's gloomy day of rain. But of course, when
Speaker 1: you live in Colorado, you have to automatically say, but
Speaker 1: we needed the moisture. We're going to talk to Fox
Speaker 1: thirty one's chief meteorologist, Dave Frasier about what kind of
Speaker 1: moisture totals we got.
Speaker 2: David, would have been.
Speaker 1: Great to have yesterday be a Saturday when we didn't
Speaker 1: have to go to work.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely, I agree with you one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: I loved the conversation about, you know, sitting around a
Speaker 2: cup of coffee or coked.
Speaker 3: Yeah, watching a watching a movie, reading a book.
Speaker 2: Listen to the pitter pad of rain out on the
Speaker 2: windows and the doors and the roof and the whole
Speaker 2: soup conversation. By the way, loaded potato bacon soup is
Speaker 2: what I make.
Speaker 1: You cannot go wrong with loaded potato soup.
Speaker 2: You can't.
Speaker 1: There's no way to screw that soup up. It's so
Speaker 1: perfect every single time.
Speaker 2: And it's easy, Yeah, the easiest thing. Dump everything into
Speaker 2: the crock pot and enjoy. Correct. Correct.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about how productive that rain was, because
Speaker 1: moy it lasted forever and it was like a nice,
Speaker 1: gentle rain. First of all, let's talk about snow totals
Speaker 1: in the out was what do we get?
Speaker 2: So we had anywhere from two and a half around Loveland,
Speaker 2: which they were excited to see. It won't help with
Speaker 2: the skiing. They need some cold nights to get the
Speaker 2: guns running. So we saw that up on Loveland Pass
Speaker 2: and over air Loveland Ski and then we had similar
Speaker 2: reports up near Brainerd Lake off.
Speaker 3: To the west. There were some higher totals.
Speaker 2: Like Winter Park got seven inches. That was exciting. You
Speaker 2: could see it on their snowstick which is their webcam online.
Speaker 2: And then we had some other one twos and threes.
Speaker 2: There were a couple of six and a half inch
Speaker 2: reports up near Cameron Pass. Obviously up to the north
Speaker 2: along Highway fourteen, so there were some decent totals. I
Speaker 2: would say two and a half to seven inch was
Speaker 2: about what we saw, and it wasn't everywhere. Obviously, this
Speaker 2: was hugging the higher peaks, the higher terrain, and while
Speaker 2: we had our first winter weather advisory for the mountain passes,
Speaker 2: they actually did very well because this just didn't contain
Speaker 2: a lot of cold there, but there was enough at
Speaker 2: past eleven thousand to fourteen thousand feet to throw some
Speaker 2: accumulating on the peaks. So what do we get?
Speaker 1: Obviously, we just got rain here and nobody saw any
Speaker 1: snow here in the metro did they know?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, it was all rain. It
Speaker 2: was all rain. And I was telling I was telling
Speaker 2: a rod. You know. One of the great things about
Speaker 2: yesterday's rain was a lot of viewers were emailing me
Speaker 2: at the station telling me how much rain they got
Speaker 2: using their rain gagers and stuff, and they were excited
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 1: Wait, can I just say, like, as a weather man,
Speaker 1: that's got to be kind of fun, right, everybody rushing
Speaker 1: to tell you how much rain they got on their
Speaker 1: house on Smith Street in Denver.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like, Yeah, I think that's got to be kind of
Speaker 1: interesting to just see how many people are excited to
Speaker 1: share their numbers with you.
Speaker 2: When we start when we have a snow event of significance,
Speaker 2: our inbox when it comes to snow totals, when we
Speaker 2: have like a snow day and everybody's at home and
Speaker 2: the kids at school has been canceled, our inbox just explodes, Yeah,
Speaker 2: with people wanting to send us their snow measurements, their
Speaker 2: pictures of what's going on because they want us to
Speaker 2: see and it actually helps to tell the story because
Speaker 2: of our veried terrain and we know that, you know,
Speaker 2: one neighborhood can get this much and another one can
Speaker 2: get that much, and it really does help us. So
Speaker 2: yesterday I was getting a lot of emails, a lot
Speaker 2: of most of them were coming from the northern Front
Speaker 2: Range where the totals ranged. As you get up towards
Speaker 2: Fort Collins, Greeley and then up the Ice seventy sixth quarter,
Speaker 2: there were some two two plus inches there. That was
Speaker 2: the area that actually had the higher totals, and then
Speaker 2: as you came down I twenty five into Denver, there's
Speaker 2: some one inches one and a half, and then you
Speaker 2: go south of there, the numbers dropped off a little bit,
Speaker 2: but everybody in northeast Colorado and along the Front Range
Speaker 2: got it down towards Monuments about a half an inch
Speaker 2: around an inch in Castle Rock, and then you get
Speaker 2: an inch inch and a half as you go a
Speaker 2: little farther north from there. So it's fantastic. And for Denver,
Speaker 2: we had a daily rainfall record yesterday one point two, yeah,
Speaker 2: one point two eight inches. It broke the old record
Speaker 2: of eighty three hundreds back in I think twenty seventeen,
Speaker 2: and now for the month of September.
Speaker 3: And we will not get any more rain.
Speaker 2: For the month. Were hind by six tenths of an
Speaker 2: inch and now we're ahead by a half an inch.
Speaker 2: Actually a little more than half an inch. So we
Speaker 2: have done really well in September just with two storm
Speaker 2: two rain events that we had, and we're two and
Speaker 2: a half inches ahead for the year. So August, yeah, September.
Speaker 1: I was going to ask you about that because I
Speaker 1: was talking to a woman and I don't know if
Speaker 1: I told you this last week, but I met a
Speaker 1: woman who moved to the Springs like last year, so
Speaker 1: she's been here a little less than a year, and
Speaker 1: she said, you know, it rains every day, And I said,
Speaker 1: that's not that normal for here. Normally everything's on fire
Speaker 1: by now, so be grateful for the rain. I was
Speaker 1: going to ask you, like, this summer feels very wet
Speaker 1: and humid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well, you know I always pulled before our
Speaker 2: conversations the outlooks.
Speaker 3: For the month, and here we go again.
Speaker 2: So if you'll remember, July ended up warm and dry,
Speaker 2: and there.
Speaker 3: Was some fire concerns.
Speaker 2: And then August came and the thirty day out looked
Speaker 2: for August was warmer and drier than normal, and that
Speaker 2: wasn't ended up being the case. We had two big
Speaker 2: events in August, one on the twenty sixth, one on
Speaker 2: the tenth. They both were like one point three one
Speaker 2: point four inches. We ended up with the third wettest August.
Speaker 2: It was cool, and so the long range OUTLOKD busted
Speaker 2: for August, and here in September it was the same.
Speaker 2: The outlook for September was supposed to be warm and
Speaker 2: dry than normal, but now we're half an inch ahead
Speaker 2: for the month. We won't. It's not record setting, and.
Speaker 3: The temperatures are about actually.
Speaker 2: We're one degree below normal, and the forecast of the
Speaker 2: remaining days in September are.
Speaker 3: Right about average.
Speaker 2: So I don't think we're going to be anywhere near warmer.
Speaker 2: And the out October is dry and warmer than normal,
Speaker 2: and I just don't buy it at this point because
Speaker 2: all it takes is I tell you time and time again,
Speaker 2: it only takes one event. So a thirty day average,
Speaker 2: all you need is one day like we had yesterday
Speaker 2: to bust.
Speaker 1: That thirty day right, it's just kind of interesting to
Speaker 1: watch the way our weather pattern The weather patterns this
Speaker 1: year for me have felt very strange. Not that not horrible,
Speaker 1: not like, you know, we need to build an arc
Speaker 1: or something, but it's just this summer has been different
Speaker 1: than any of the prior summers that I can remember
Speaker 1: in terms of it just as felt humid the whole summer.
Speaker 1: It is it is, you know, the rain has been consistent, like,
Speaker 1: it's just been interesting. And you've got to wonder, in
Speaker 1: the grand scheme of climate change, what all of this
Speaker 1: sort of is going to mean going forward.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, and it's a valid point. You know,
Speaker 2: weather by definition is variable. It ebbs and it flows.
Speaker 2: I like to take it seven to ten days at
Speaker 2: a time. I know there will be stretches during a
Speaker 2: season summer, winter, spring, fall where things may be a
Speaker 2: little you know, a little cooler, a little warmer, a
Speaker 2: little drier, a little wetter. I always say, never give
Speaker 2: up on a season until it's done. You got to
Speaker 2: wait until the final calculations come in. However, you know,
Speaker 2: you're talking about climate change and stuff. One of the
Speaker 2: things we looked at is we are going to post
Speaker 2: another September because we have no snow in the forecast
Speaker 2: right now in the end of the month, going to
Speaker 2: post another September where we have not had measurable snow,
Speaker 2: not even a trace. And so we looked back. September
Speaker 2: is generally Denver's first measurable snow month on average through
Speaker 2: our record history going back to the eighteen hundreds, is
Speaker 2: about an inch. Well, I looked at the status yesterday.
Speaker 2: We were talking at work, and the last time we
Speaker 2: had one inch of snow, it was that big wind
Speaker 2: width that we had. You'll remember we were like at
Speaker 2: one hundred and one, and two days later the temperature
Speaker 2: plummeted into the thirties. We ended up with a winch
Speaker 2: inch of snow. That was in twenty twenty. You have
Speaker 2: to go all the way back to two thousand to
Speaker 2: find the next measurable snow. We've had one one inch
Speaker 2: snowstorm in the month of September in twenty four years. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's it. That's it. So you have to look at that,
Speaker 2: and you have to read into that is summer gotten
Speaker 2: a little later? Here's like is Labor Day not really
Speaker 2: the end of the summer season. Those are things that climate.
Speaker 2: Climate is cyclical and it changes and you know, when
Speaker 2: we use averages, we're using a thirty year average. Obviously
Speaker 2: ten years from now that average could change, and so
Speaker 2: we have to monitor and keep an eye on that.
Speaker 2: But the weather, I agree with you, has been just perfect.
Speaker 2: Little warm stretches nineties, ninety ninety five, ninety eight, one
Speaker 2: hundred book, Here comes a cold front, here comes some races,
Speaker 2: and I just think, I look at my lawn, I
Speaker 2: drive around, I see people's you know, you know, landscaping,
Speaker 2: and I look at the natural the natural grasses that
Speaker 2: round a little bit. That's okay, we're at that time
Speaker 2: of the year. But I just think we have been
Speaker 2: in a great shape all season long.
Speaker 1: I agree Dave Frasier. I got one quick question from
Speaker 1: the text line. Why do the seven seven day temperature
Speaker 1: bar charts only show the high temperature?
Speaker 2: They're all lowe They're all.
Speaker 1: The same on the bottom, and then it shows on
Speaker 1: the bar chart where the high is. I don't know
Speaker 1: how you'd even fix that.
Speaker 2: I guess i'd need to see an example of what
Speaker 2: they're talking about. Our seven day forecast. Yeah, as low
Speaker 2: temperatures that we have white boxes at the bottom showing
Speaker 2: the overnight lows for each day, and then the high
Speaker 2: temperature is sitting on the top.
Speaker 1: Well, and they say they just show the low temp
Speaker 1: as a number, not on the bars themselves. I just
Speaker 1: think that's an aesthetic thing.
Speaker 2: Don't you think they may be talking about a bar
Speaker 2: forecast that could be different from a seven day forecast
Speaker 2: where the bars kind of go up and down depending
Speaker 2: on what the temperatures are, but the bottom stays the same.
Speaker 2: That may be something somebody created where they're just illustrating
Speaker 2: the high temperatures, so you'll see different elevations in the
Speaker 2: high temperatures based on what the high is, and then
Speaker 2: underneath that it could just be a steady stream of
Speaker 2: what the lows are and they didn't use like bars
Speaker 2: to represent the low temperatures. That's my guess without seeing it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that sounds reasonable to me. I think it's more
Speaker 1: of an aesthetics thing than anything else.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're late, Dave Fraser.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you again next week.
Speaker 2: My friend, I enjoyed the warm up coming your way
Speaker 2: for the week.