09 23 25 FOX 31 Meteorologist Kylie Bearse discusses the changing weather ahead

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Is Colorado's morning news, and the season of fall officially underway,
and it's going to feel a lot, feel it a
lot like you're in Denver today, So.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Parts of the high Country maybe seeing some more early
winter like weather. Joining us now on the KWA Common
Spirit Health Hotline is Fox thirty one meteorologist Kylie Bursts. Okay, Kylie,
let's start in the high country because we've seen some
of the shots on Fox thirty one this morning.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
It seems like some of that snow is already coming down.

Speaker 4 (00:22):
It is, I mean, thankfully so far is just kind
of melting on contact that we're not seeing a big
issue on the roads just yet. But we do some
winter weather advisories in place for a lot of those
front range foothills, especially when we're talking about those high
mountain passes. It is possible on some of those highest
peaks we could get four to ten inches of snow
when we're talking about that. Now, most of the mountain
valleys and you know, the towns and whatnot, it's going

(00:42):
to be mostly melting, maybe a slushy inter two, but hey,
we're talking about snow.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
So probably above what eight thousand feet, do you think,
Kylie the snow is going to be sticking, you know.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
I mean we could see it a flushy inch down
to eight thousand. I think it's mainly going to be
up above ten thousand that we're seeing the bigger impacts.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Is it normal to be talking snow at the end
of September here?

Speaker 4 (01:01):
Oh yeah, I mean we've already seen a little bit
of light snow coming down up in our high country
and we could see we typically see that as early
as like late August, So very very normal for this
time of year.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
How's our moisture content? I take it this is good
news to get this kind of moisture.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
It is, yeah, especially up in our mountains because our
drought conditions, they just have not budged up there, so
we've just been dealing with extreme to exceptional drough Even
here in the metro area, we've been dealing with moderate
drough So anything that we can get, especially with snow,
because when we get the snow, it's not just like
one big rainstorm that comes through. It drops it, it
doesn't quite absorb. The snow can give us a lot

(01:36):
more when it comes to actually absorbing that moisture since
it's sitting on the ground.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
For so long, we've seen some incredible aspen leaf peeping
times right now in the high country. However, with the
snow that's coming down, Kylie, is this going to shorten
the leaf peeping timeline or how does that really work
when we have a big snowstorm moving in.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
You know, honestly, every time, almost every year this time
when we get the fall colors, we get a snowstorm,
always get those gorgeous pictures of the snow on the
fresh aspens. What's nice is that things just started to peak.
So I was up in Veil over the weekend. A
lot of spots are still pretty green, and then Silverthorne
Frisco full peak right now. They're looking really good, but

(02:14):
there's nothing really on the ground just yet. So I
would say that even though we're getting this snow, it's
not going to knock out all of those leaves. I
think if it were a week later and those leaves
were a little bit more, you know, they've turned a
little bit more, they're about to fall off, it would
have a bigger impact than right now. I think We're
still this weekend is going to be absolutely incredible for
fall colors.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
I was just going to ask would be looking at
for the next couple of days, next five days out well, so.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
After today we're pretty much done for a little bit.
I mean, we're going to be seeing those temperatures in
the mid sixties up in our high country, so we're
going to see lots of sunshine, and here in the
metro area, we're actually going to be back up close
to eighty degrees for the weekend, which sounds crazy because
you're like, Okay, it's fall, we're done, But average temperatures
in late September in Colorado are in the upper seventies,
so it's really not too far of an extreme.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
One meteorologist, it's Kylie Burst. Thanks Kylie, thank you.