April 23, 2025 • 9 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
As we do every Wednesday. At the bottom of the hour,
we like to check.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
In with Fox thirty one's chief meteorologists, and that's chief
not cheap, totally different kind of meteorologists.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Dave Frasier, Hi day, Welcome back to the show.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Yeah, good afternoon. How you doing on this Wednesday?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'm doing fine, But I obviously didn't look at the
weather right because when I left my house in my
short sleeves, I was fine.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
I got out of my car in the Tech Center
and I was like, wait, what Winter Game? What is
happening you?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
You should have stayed at your south command. It's a
little warmer down here than it is up that way.
Yeah is yeah, yeah. So we had a weak cold
front come in last night and it moved from the
It came down I seventy six from the north and east,
and behind it we have a cool northeast flow. So
the farther towards Denver and to the north and east
(00:49):
of the airport, you're you're traveling into that cooler air.
There's actually some low clouds kind of hanging out just
to the east of the airport, and that's kind of
factoring in to some changes in the forecast today for
timing of showers and thunderstorms a little bit. We see
this from time to time where a week cold front
or even what we call a backwash from big storms
(01:10):
in the Midwest kind of throw higher humidity and some
low clouds onto the eastern plains, and that low cloud
deck limits heating and therefore removes the chance for thunderstorms.
So where the sun is out down here in the
Castle Rock area, we think this is the area where
some storms after three o'clock would fire up, and then
they'll head to the north and east. It won't be
a lot of them, but then they'll run into that cooler,
(01:32):
lower cloud deck and that will kind of cause them
to decrease and become just more light showers than actual thunderstorm.
So always fun challenging at this time of the year.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I have a.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Question that's not actually a question for you. We were
just talking about the governor's race, but this is a
weather question. So I'm going to ask you this question, Mandy,
could the new governor change tornado watch tornado warning to
tornado watch tornado here? I am tired of constantly googling it.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
No, I don't know that is a term that is
used nationally. It has been a term that those both
of those terms have been around for a long time.
It's from the National Weather Service. It's on a federal level.
So no, I do not see where the governor would
have any authority to do that, and it would cause confusion,
and I know it can be confusion. The way I
(02:22):
tell people is watch means be prepared. Okay, if you
hear a term watch, you need to be prepared. Find
out what the being prepared is. Is it being prepared
for lightning or hail or gusty wind, or is it
in the winter being prepared for potential snow and slick roads.
So anytime you hear watch, being prepared, when you hear warning,
you have to act. So in a thunderstorm warning, you're
(02:43):
going to have lightning, hail, and wind, you need to
do your best to get inside and ride the storm out.
If you hear tornado warning, you need to get to
a safe shelter. Below ground is best. But if you
don't have a basement, an interior room away from outside
walls and windows, like a bathroom or a closet is
the best. So again, watch, be prepared, warning, Act.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Okay, I have another sassy question from the Common Spirit
health text line. Dave, here's a sassy question for you.
Does the hot air coming from the gold Dome change
the weather?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Wow, you've got some political people listening today's I'm just
glad the last question wasn't like Dave Logan's question, would
you be willing to run for governor? And my question
would have been, just like you, a flat.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
No, no, not a chance.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Here's an interesting question, and I think there's a couple
different aspects to this. Do weather forecasters pay attention to
other networks forecasts?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Are you guys ever.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Checking the competition to see how they are doing, or
what they're looking at, or any of that stuff to
kind of compare how you guys do versus them.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
The answer to that is yes, but not to compare, right,
just to kind of see what they're doing. So we
make our forecast on our own. We don't even look
at the National Service when we make it. They are
the governing body. They have a group of forecasters, great
forecasters up there in Boulder. They are responsible for the
safety of the public by issuing the watches. In the warnings.
(04:10):
We have our own mechanisms by which we can get
on TV, or on our social platforms or on our
website to disseminate the same type of information, cautionary information,
things about where storms are. So we watch the competition
because yeah, we're all competing, just as you are with
other radio stations. We're competing against what the product is
that they're putting on the air. Are they doing something?
(04:31):
I judge for Emmy Awards and other across the country,
and I'll look at entries and I'll look to see
is there's somebody doing something that's different, it's catchy, Is
a great graphic can illustrate better than something we're doing.
So we're constantly robin stealing from that perspective, But we
don't look at them and then go, oh, wait a minute,
they're going seventy, we're sixty eight. We should probably go seventy.
(04:53):
So we don't do it from that perspective.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Wait, there are the radio stations. I wasn't aware.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I'm sorry, I have no idea. And you know I
say that jokingly, but I kind of mean it. I'd
never pay attention to what the competition is doing because no,
especially in this you know, nobody is nobody is doing
exactly what I'm doing. Probably a purpose, but I I'm
kind of this like you know, Lone Soldier. You're either
gonna like me or you're not. There's not a lot
(05:20):
I can do to convince you of otherwise.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I'm up many And on that note, I will say
the same thing that watching the competition again, you might
be able to gain a little something. But I can't
see them right, same as you. You can't be a
different host. You can't be roth right, yea, because are
two different people, right, and that's the same. I'm not
going to look at somebody who does the presentation and go,
oh that's cool. I'm going to try and you know,
(05:44):
be impersonate them. It just doesn't work that way.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I don't know what's going on with the text line, Dave,
but these are all sassy questions, Dave. Is there a
proper Is there a proper way to do a rain dance?
So far, the hokey pokey is not working in fruta.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
You know. I don't know if there is a magical
two step or a tango that will help, but I
will tell you that I was looking at some statistics
yesterday and if you take out the big snowstorm we
had back in the early November. If you removed that
one storm from the equation for moisture for the end
(06:19):
of twenty twenty four and where we have been struggling
here in early twenty twenty five, we are really way behind.
Those storms had actually helped to pad the bottom line,
if you will. So for snowfall, we're going to come
up short for snowfall, and that's not surprising. It would
be the third year in a row, the actually fourth
year in a row, that we've been short. You go
(06:40):
back to twenty twenty one, we were seven inches behind,
twenty twenty two seven inches. Last year we were twelve inches,
and this year we're going to be about ten inches.
So we're going to come up short. And for moisture
here in March and April, our growing seasons, it's been stingy,
and so you know, we had that great rainy kind
of Friday with the snow mixing in last week and
(07:01):
it just kind of stayed all day, and you would
have thought the totals would have been much much higher,
and they weren't. They were meager, tense, two tenths of
an inch. We just need better moisture and I just
don't have anything right now in the next ten days
other than be scattered storms. And if you get under
one of those scattered storms, you're fortunate. It may come
with some wind, lightning, and some small ale, but you're
fortunate to get the moisture.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
This texter said, Hey, Mandy, please ask Dave if there's
any basis for the inn like a lion out like
a lamb phenomena for March.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I mean it's an old saying. Sometimes it works, sometimes
it doesn't. Sometimes both in and out can be both
lions and both lambs. So it is one of those
that the hope is if it comes in like a lamb,
that it will turn like a lion, meaning we get
more active weather or the reverse. Either way, it doesn't
dictate what we might see in so far, March was
(07:50):
a lamb, and apolsmen a lamb, and let's hope we
get some more moisture because aple showers bring may flowers.
If we don't get the aple shallers, we're going to
be struggling to keep our grasses looking green. Trem as well.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Last question for you, I've got Rick and Littleton. He
wants to know if there's going to be another hard
frost in the rest of this spring.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Yeah, you know, we're starting to get to those questions.
We still haven't reached the average date, which is in
early May, so I would caution people everything's turning green,
do some watering by hand. I know that what people
want to know, is it okay you know to turn Yeah.
I hedge my bets on those, because I've said it
many times with you. I don't want to be the
guy that gives me all clear and all of a sudden,
(08:28):
the forecast the eight games changes and we're back below
freezing and people are busting pipe. So I think you
just stay the course, hang on, do some handwatering, connect
the hoses if you want to stay away from planting
anything in the ground or potting anything. I mean you
could pot that you've got to bring it in. But
at this point I would say, you know, I'm not
seeing any cold snaps, but I'm still seeing temperatures in
(08:49):
the mid to upper thirties overnight.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
All right, that's Dave Frasier.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
You can watch his forecast along with the other crack
squad of meteorologists over there at Fox thirty one. Dave,
we will talk to you next week, my friend.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
All Right, enjoy your Sassity listards.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
They are on fire today.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
You people, you sassy, sassy people on the text line
sassy
As we do every Wednesday. At the bottom of the hour,
we like to check.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
In with Fox thirty one's chief meteorologists, and that's chief
not cheap, totally different kind of meteorologists.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Dave Frasier, Hi day, Welcome back to the show.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Yeah, good afternoon. How you doing on this Wednesday?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'm doing fine, But I obviously didn't look at the
weather right because when I left my house in my
short sleeves, I was fine.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
I got out of my car in the Tech Center
and I was like, wait, what Winter Game? What is
happening you?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
You should have stayed at your south command. It's a
little warmer down here than it is up that way.
Yeah is yeah, yeah. So we had a weak cold
front come in last night and it moved from the
It came down I seventy six from the north and east,
and behind it we have a cool northeast flow. So
the farther towards Denver and to the north and east
(00:49):
of the airport, you're you're traveling into that cooler air.
There's actually some low clouds kind of hanging out just
to the east of the airport, and that's kind of
factoring in to some changes in the forecast today for
timing of showers and thunderstorms a little bit. We see
this from time to time where a week cold front
or even what we call a backwash from big storms
(01:10):
in the Midwest kind of throw higher humidity and some
low clouds onto the eastern plains, and that low cloud
deck limits heating and therefore removes the chance for thunderstorms.
So where the sun is out down here in the
Castle Rock area, we think this is the area where
some storms after three o'clock would fire up, and then
they'll head to the north and east. It won't be
a lot of them, but then they'll run into that cooler,
(01:32):
lower cloud deck and that will kind of cause them
to decrease and become just more light showers than actual thunderstorm.
So always fun challenging at this time of the year.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I have a.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Question that's not actually a question for you. We were
just talking about the governor's race, but this is a
weather question. So I'm going to ask you this question, Mandy,
could the new governor change tornado watch tornado warning to
tornado watch tornado here? I am tired of constantly googling it.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
No, I don't know that is a term that is
used nationally. It has been a term that those both
of those terms have been around for a long time.
It's from the National Weather Service. It's on a federal level.
So no, I do not see where the governor would
have any authority to do that, and it would cause confusion,
and I know it can be confusion. The way I
(02:22):
tell people is watch means be prepared. Okay, if you
hear a term watch, you need to be prepared. Find
out what the being prepared is. Is it being prepared
for lightning or hail or gusty wind, or is it
in the winter being prepared for potential snow and slick roads.
So anytime you hear watch, being prepared, when you hear warning,
you have to act. So in a thunderstorm warning, you're
(02:43):
going to have lightning, hail, and wind, you need to
do your best to get inside and ride the storm out.
If you hear tornado warning, you need to get to
a safe shelter. Below ground is best. But if you
don't have a basement, an interior room away from outside
walls and windows, like a bathroom or a closet is
the best. So again, watch, be prepared, warning, Act.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Okay, I have another sassy question from the Common Spirit
health text line. Dave, here's a sassy question for you.
Does the hot air coming from the gold Dome change
the weather?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Wow, you've got some political people listening today's I'm just
glad the last question wasn't like Dave Logan's question, would
you be willing to run for governor? And my question
would have been, just like you, a flat.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
No, no, not a chance.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Here's an interesting question, and I think there's a couple
different aspects to this. Do weather forecasters pay attention to
other networks forecasts?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Are you guys ever.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Checking the competition to see how they are doing, or
what they're looking at, or any of that stuff to
kind of compare how you guys do versus them.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
The answer to that is yes, but not to compare, right,
just to kind of see what they're doing. So we
make our forecast on our own. We don't even look
at the National Service when we make it. They are
the governing body. They have a group of forecasters, great
forecasters up there in Boulder. They are responsible for the
safety of the public by issuing the watches. In the warnings.
(04:10):
We have our own mechanisms by which we can get
on TV, or on our social platforms or on our
website to disseminate the same type of information, cautionary information,
things about where storms are. So we watch the competition
because yeah, we're all competing, just as you are with
other radio stations. We're competing against what the product is
that they're putting on the air. Are they doing something?
(04:31):
I judge for Emmy Awards and other across the country,
and I'll look at entries and I'll look to see
is there's somebody doing something that's different, it's catchy, Is
a great graphic can illustrate better than something we're doing.
So we're constantly robin stealing from that perspective, But we
don't look at them and then go, oh, wait a minute,
they're going seventy, we're sixty eight. We should probably go seventy.
(04:53):
So we don't do it from that perspective.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Wait, there are the radio stations. I wasn't aware.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I'm sorry, I have no idea. And you know I
say that jokingly, but I kind of mean it. I'd
never pay attention to what the competition is doing because no,
especially in this you know, nobody is nobody is doing
exactly what I'm doing. Probably a purpose, but I I'm
kind of this like you know, Lone Soldier. You're either
gonna like me or you're not. There's not a lot
(05:20):
I can do to convince you of otherwise.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I'm up many And on that note, I will say
the same thing that watching the competition again, you might
be able to gain a little something. But I can't
see them right, same as you. You can't be a
different host. You can't be roth right, yea, because are
two different people, right, and that's the same. I'm not
going to look at somebody who does the presentation and go,
oh that's cool. I'm going to try and you know,
(05:44):
be impersonate them. It just doesn't work that way.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I don't know what's going on with the text line, Dave,
but these are all sassy questions, Dave. Is there a
proper Is there a proper way to do a rain dance?
So far, the hokey pokey is not working in fruta.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
You know. I don't know if there is a magical
two step or a tango that will help, but I
will tell you that I was looking at some statistics
yesterday and if you take out the big snowstorm we
had back in the early November. If you removed that
one storm from the equation for moisture for the end
(06:19):
of twenty twenty four and where we have been struggling
here in early twenty twenty five, we are really way behind.
Those storms had actually helped to pad the bottom line,
if you will. So for snowfall, we're going to come
up short for snowfall, and that's not surprising. It would
be the third year in a row, the actually fourth
year in a row, that we've been short. You go
(06:40):
back to twenty twenty one, we were seven inches behind,
twenty twenty two seven inches. Last year we were twelve inches,
and this year we're going to be about ten inches.
So we're going to come up short. And for moisture
here in March and April, our growing seasons, it's been stingy,
and so you know, we had that great rainy kind
of Friday with the snow mixing in last week and
(07:01):
it just kind of stayed all day, and you would
have thought the totals would have been much much higher,
and they weren't. They were meager, tense, two tenths of
an inch. We just need better moisture and I just
don't have anything right now in the next ten days
other than be scattered storms. And if you get under
one of those scattered storms, you're fortunate. It may come
with some wind, lightning, and some small ale, but you're
fortunate to get the moisture.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
This texter said, Hey, Mandy, please ask Dave if there's
any basis for the inn like a lion out like
a lamb phenomena for March.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I mean it's an old saying. Sometimes it works, sometimes
it doesn't. Sometimes both in and out can be both
lions and both lambs. So it is one of those
that the hope is if it comes in like a lamb,
that it will turn like a lion, meaning we get
more active weather or the reverse. Either way, it doesn't
dictate what we might see in so far, March was
(07:50):
a lamb, and apolsmen a lamb, and let's hope we
get some more moisture because aple showers bring may flowers.
If we don't get the aple shallers, we're going to
be struggling to keep our grasses looking green. Trem as well.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Last question for you, I've got Rick and Littleton. He
wants to know if there's going to be another hard
frost in the rest of this spring.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Yeah, you know, we're starting to get to those questions.
We still haven't reached the average date, which is in
early May, so I would caution people everything's turning green,
do some watering by hand. I know that what people
want to know, is it okay you know to turn Yeah.
I hedge my bets on those, because I've said it
many times with you. I don't want to be the
guy that gives me all clear and all of a sudden,
(08:28):
the forecast the eight games changes and we're back below
freezing and people are busting pipe. So I think you
just stay the course, hang on, do some handwatering, connect
the hoses if you want to stay away from planting
anything in the ground or potting anything. I mean you
could pot that you've got to bring it in. But
at this point I would say, you know, I'm not
seeing any cold snaps, but I'm still seeing temperatures in
(08:49):
the mid to upper thirties overnight.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
All right, that's Dave Frasier.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
You can watch his forecast along with the other crack
squad of meteorologists over there at Fox thirty one. Dave,
we will talk to you next week, my friend.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
All Right, enjoy your Sassity listards.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
They are on fire today.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
You people, you sassy, sassy people on the text line
sassy
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