Speaker 1: Box thirty one's chief meteorologist, Dave Frasier, Hey, Dave.
Speaker 2: How we doing today? Well?
Speaker 1: I am I have words for you, mister, because last
Speaker 1: week you did not give me a heads up that
Speaker 1: I was going to end up with two feet of
Speaker 1: snow in my driveway.
Speaker 2: But there we were. Yeah, that, yeah, that was that.
Speaker 2: The southern area. We were thinking maybe a one to two,
Speaker 2: a one to three, and the wind coming up and
Speaker 2: over these southern areas was so strong it lifted the
Speaker 2: air and anytime you lift you can generate more snow.
Speaker 2: And so the totals came in at around eight inches,
Speaker 2: especially down on the south side of town. So yeah,
Speaker 2: much more than was expected.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we're about to enter into one of our
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, bitterly cold. Your face is going to
Speaker 1: freeze when you go outside time periods. When does that start?
Speaker 1: Is this a true polar vortex? I keep saying that,
Speaker 1: but I don't even know if it really is.
Speaker 2: It is, okay, yeah, so the polar vortex. You know,
Speaker 2: those are nice little cliche words that we'd like to
Speaker 2: toss out every now and then. We call it an
Speaker 2: arctic outbreak. So you know, you have the cold there
Speaker 2: kind of like a whirlpool spinning around over the poles,
Speaker 2: and the jet stream is like a lasso, and as
Speaker 2: long as the jet stream is spinning at the right momentum,
Speaker 2: it kind of holds all of that cold there at
Speaker 2: the poles. But if the jet stream slows or buckles,
Speaker 2: then the cold air releases, and that's what we're dealing with,
Speaker 2: and that's why it's called the polar vortex, the vortex
Speaker 2: being the circulation and the polar being the region from
Speaker 2: which the cold there comes. So we're thinking the cold.
Speaker 2: They will start to see thin Friday afternoon, so you
Speaker 2: should notice the temperatures dropping. The snow will lag behind
Speaker 2: that until about eight or nine o'clock, and then we'll
Speaker 2: get into a period of light snow temperatures on Saturday
Speaker 2: and Sunday. Their highs will be probably around seventeen to
Speaker 2: nineteen both days, with morning lows starting out at about
Speaker 2: two to four below, and then the coldest morning is
Speaker 2: going to be Monday morning at about five to seven below,
Speaker 2: and the highs will be right around ten or eleven degrees.
Speaker 2: As far as snow, yeah, Bomby, and yeah, we're not
Speaker 2: We're not looking at a ton of wind, but I'm
Speaker 2: watching the wind forecast closely. But with the temperatures we're
Speaker 2: thinking in the morning being near zero or below, you
Speaker 2: don't need a lot of wind to get feels like
Speaker 2: or wind chill temperatures that make it feel like it's ten, fifteen,
Speaker 2: twenty below zero. I don't know if we'll reach the
Speaker 2: threshold of concern as an advisory for you know, protecting
Speaker 2: your scandal. We'll watch that closely. And as far as
Speaker 2: the snow, the totals came down a little bit, but
Speaker 2: I always remind people it's really not about the depth
Speaker 2: of the snow. In this type of a cold atmosphere.
Speaker 2: Any snow that falls on the roads in the side
Speaker 2: of that bear is going to make the road slick.
Speaker 2: So Friday night, Saturday early, Sunday night, Monday early, are
Speaker 2: you two timeframes. I think you're looking at about one
Speaker 2: to four the first round and about one to two,
Speaker 2: putting us in a total over the weekend of about
Speaker 2: two to six.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I'm just going to spitball here. After talking
Speaker 1: to Douglas County School superinto and it sounds like Monday,
Speaker 1: if there's going to be a freezing cold snow type day,
Speaker 1: even though we're not getting a lot of snow, that
Speaker 1: might be your delayed start, or maybe some squens might cancel.
Speaker 2: I agree. I think that's the reason. I mean overall,
Speaker 2: I don't know that the snow is going to have
Speaker 2: much more of an additional impact on roads. I think
Speaker 2: the roads are going to be what they are and
Speaker 2: we'll get accustomed to driving on them. You're never going
Speaker 2: to be able to get the plows to scrape down
Speaker 2: the bare pavement. Although we always joke about this, we
Speaker 2: do have the benefit of the solar shovel so if
Speaker 2: the sun's out, even if it's only fifteen degrees, it
Speaker 2: will do a good job of on the main roads
Speaker 2: getting that pavement cleared down. I do think the one
Speaker 2: concern on Monday, and the reason we did alert days,
Speaker 2: we did pinpoint whether alert days for the snow on
Speaker 2: the roads on Saturday combined with the cold, snow on
Speaker 2: the roads on Sunday combined with the cold, and Monday
Speaker 2: purely for just the cold in the morning. As it
Speaker 2: relates to the kids, right, I can see delays and
Speaker 2: or cancelations.
Speaker 1: All right, So and that is going to last how
Speaker 1: long we start too? And I say warm up that
Speaker 1: I'm just back to the thirties would be nice. After that, I.
Speaker 2: Think Tuesday very quickly. The sun will be out on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: While we may start below zero again, that temperature will
Speaker 2: come up very quickly with sunrise above zero, and I
Speaker 2: do think we'll get back to about thirty two to
Speaker 2: thirty four and then from there make our way back
Speaker 2: to the seasonal forties for the remainder of next week.
Speaker 2: I don't see an additional Arctic outbreak. As a matter
Speaker 2: of fact, the long range through the twenty eighth keeps
Speaker 2: us a little bit cooler than normal, but not colder
Speaker 2: than normal, so it might be a slow progression to
Speaker 2: get back to the forties. But overall, once we get
Speaker 2: through this cold there, remember, because of our elevation, the
Speaker 2: coldest are you know, kind of like syrups filling over
Speaker 2: the edge of pancakes. We'll actually go into the Midwest,
Speaker 2: so they will be in the deepest of the cold.
Speaker 2: We're just going to be on the fringe, but certainly
Speaker 2: cold enough to make an impact to you being out
Speaker 2: and about this weekend.
Speaker 1: You know what I think I'm gonna do, Dave. I
Speaker 1: think I'm just going to go to Puerto Rico next
Speaker 1: week instead. That's going to be my plan. I actually
Speaker 1: am going to Puerto Rico next week. I'll be broadcasting
Speaker 1: from Puerto Rico. It's a long story, but I'll be
Speaker 1: talking to you from Puerto Rico. I'll have their weather
Speaker 1: report and we can compare weather reports next Wednesday. How
Speaker 1: about that the.
Speaker 2: Same Yeah, yeah, you're going down there with some your
Speaker 2: nose that Yeah.
Speaker 1: I am one of my favorite clients. It has a
Speaker 1: thing down there that we're going to be talking about
Speaker 1: next week, and I'm looking forward to it and now
Speaker 1: really looking forward to it because now I don't have
Speaker 1: to deal with this. We can we have just a minute.
Speaker 1: And I know that you guys as meteorologists talk about
Speaker 1: this stuff, but let's talk about how to harden your
Speaker 1: home real quick against this because these you know, we
Speaker 1: have freezing temperatures all the time and pipes don't burst
Speaker 1: and things are okay. But when you're in the negatives,
Speaker 1: then then you're in a situation where things things are
Speaker 1: going to start to break.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, you'll hear some things about making sure
Speaker 2: your pipes are outside are just connected. Hopefully everybody at
Speaker 2: this point in January has has went to right the
Speaker 2: outside of their home as it relates to anything sprinkler,
Speaker 2: So I think that's not really a concern. I think
Speaker 2: you've got to be concerned about older homes that have
Speaker 2: their you know, there's kitchen sinks or maybe a bathroom
Speaker 2: that's on an outside wall, and the insulation in the
Speaker 2: home isn't great, maybe the windows, maybe the windows, you know,
Speaker 2: don't completely keep the cold there out. And in those situations,
Speaker 2: you know, the best advice is to turn the faucet
Speaker 2: on for a trickle during the overnight hours, just to
Speaker 2: keep the water flowing. You know, rivers tend not to freeze.
Speaker 2: They might have an ice on top of them, but
Speaker 2: if the river is moving, the water will continue to move,
Speaker 2: so you won't freeze the pipe. And then the other
Speaker 2: thing you can do is you can open up your
Speaker 2: cabinet doors underneath those sinks and let some of the
Speaker 2: warm air from the house go in. You can certainly
Speaker 2: bump the temperature up in the house too to combat it.
Speaker 2: But again, I think those concerns are generally with older homes. Right,
Speaker 2: newer homes of the last twenty twenty five years, with
Speaker 2: efficient furnaces and stuff, should be able to you know,
Speaker 2: withstand this gold. The one thing that we never know
Speaker 2: is do we bust something underground, like right before where
Speaker 2: you know you got flooding waters in the street because
Speaker 2: the one hundred year old pipe running down the neighborhood
Speaker 2: in downtown Denver couldn't withstand the cold. And so those
Speaker 2: are things that you're not going to be able to
Speaker 2: control them, right.
Speaker 1: I got a couple questions from the text line, Mandy,
Speaker 1: aren't these so called polar vortex is just what we
Speaker 1: used to call Rossby waves.
Speaker 2: With the waves, those are the waves. Those are the
Speaker 2: circulation the jet streams around around the planet. So at
Speaker 2: the poles it goes one way. In the mid latitudes
Speaker 2: it goes the other way, and they buckle and everything
Speaker 2: it relates to the jet streams. So the answer to that,
Speaker 2: flat out, without getting too deep, is yes, that's what
Speaker 2: they're called. But we've given them certain names because I
Speaker 2: think it defines more directly what we're expecting. Polar vortex
Speaker 2: sounds more like what you would expect coming this weekend
Speaker 2: as opposed to a Rosbie wave.
Speaker 1: Well, let me ask one more question. Would you ask
Speaker 1: Dave if the jet stream in the southern hemisphere goes
Speaker 1: the same direction as it does up here.
Speaker 2: Again, jet streams go so the mid latitudes, that's us,
Speaker 2: our storms go from west to east. Poler goes the
Speaker 2: opposite way. And then in the southern hemisphere, same thing.
Speaker 2: Mid latitudes are going the opposite way, and the polls
Speaker 2: so they reverse, each one of them reverses. Okay, the
Speaker 2: southern hemisphere is completely opposite of the northern hemisphere. Okay.
Speaker 1: And a lot of people on our tech SGE are
Speaker 1: pointing out the Monday is Mlkday. The kids will be
Speaker 1: out of school anyway, so I don't have to worry.
Speaker 2: About that, right, all right, that's right, hard thing on
Speaker 2: that one.
Speaker 1: There we go, all right, Dave Fraser, I will be
Speaker 1: talking to you when you're freezing your took us off
Speaker 1: next week from sunny Puerto Rico. So I look forward
Speaker 1: to that, my friend.
Speaker 2: I'll be looking for some type of a tropical servants
Speaker 2: to see if you can't do in your plans a little.
Speaker 2: There you go, thanks a lot.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that, Dave Fraser from Box thirty one. I
Speaker 1: appreciate you, man,