06-19-24 Interview - Weather Wednesday with FOX31's Dave Fraser

GET YOUR WEATHER QUESTIONS READY As we check in with Fox 31's Dave Fraser to find out what's coming next.

Episode Transcript

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Dave Fraser of Fox thirty one.Dave Fraser, how you doing, my
friends? Yeah, I'm doing good. Welcome back. Good to connect with
you a guest. Thank you.It was chilly in Norway and Chili today.
What's up at this? I likeit? Yeah, yeah, we
had that cold We had that coldfront come in yesterday. You know,
a little bit of a break afterreaching ninety nine degrees just the other day.

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I'm okay with it. It's niceto cool things down, be nice
to get a little more moisture andrain. We have some chances, but
overall, you know, not awet pattern coming up for anybody. That's
what I was going to ask you. So are we just going to have
sprinkles around the metro area just atrandom? Well, we should get some
showers and thunderstorms. It's a littlewarmer in the mountains and there's a little
more sunshine up there, so thatshould trigger some storms and then a few

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of those should drift our way afterthree four o'clock this afternoon. So we're
hoping to get some rain out ofit. But because the air down here
is so cool and the atmosphere isa little calmer, you don't get the
volatility of thunderstorms, but you couldhear some thunder. We'll have a couple
of chances tomorrow. I think tomorrowis the best chance for a few more
of us to get a couple ofshowers and thunderstorms. Again, it won't
be widespread, and Friday the rainchances drop off, and then as we

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head into the weekend they kind ofdisappear again. Other than the foothills in
the mountains, we're going to bedry and get right back to those hot
nineties. So we are not partof the ginormous heat wave across the country
right now. What is happening andhow long is that going to last for
people who may be traveling into it. Yeah, it's basically the upper Midwest,

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the Great Legs on into New England. There's a big area of high
pressure out there, and under thatdome the heat has just been building.
And so you have not only theheat and the possible record high temperatures exceeding
ninety five degrees, which is hotfor that region of the country. You
add in the humidity factor and nowyou've got a dangerous situation of you know,

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people being outside and heat exhaustion andheat stress because you can't cool down
in that environment right over. Theirovernight loaves don't cool when it's that humid
out either. It's the same thingwhen you think of the desert southwest,
you know, you think of Arizona. Yeah, it's baking during the day
at one hundred, one hundred andten, one hundred and twelve degrees,

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and they never get the cooling effectat night. It's still eighty five degrees
at night. Our benefit is wedo get that cooling effect, so even
on our hot days at a onehundred degrees, we might touch that temperature
for an hour or two, butthen as soon as we get to the
afternoon evening, we get the refreshingfifties and sixties like we've had for the
last couple of nights. It's kindof funny, and I don't mean funny,
haha, but it's kind of funnybecause I you know, I look

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at the British papers every day aswell, and they're freaking out because it's
going to be like eighty five,oh eighty five, how are you gonna
lie? But they don't have airconditioning like we do. I mean they
do now way more than they usedto. Yeah, and it's it's you
know, you just have to lookat the climate as a whole. And
by climate, I don't mean Imean what is what is normal? Right?

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Right? What are you used toso you know we can have you
know, there are parts of thecountry that will get a heat advisory where
it might be say ninety with eightypercent humidity, and they're concerned about people
being exposed not being able to cooloff. Yet it could be one hundred
and ten and Tucson and you're notgoing to have a heat advisory, right.
So it's just it depends on whatyou're used to and what makes you

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know sense what's what's hot for oneregion versus another. Well, and I
want to ask you totally unrelated tothat, because a listener I was trying
to find it right then as youwere giving that answer, and I can't
find it. A listener sent itin yesterday and said, hey, I
really want to know the answer tothis question. And he is talking about
the little sayings that you use inthe weather forecast, and some of them

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like don't you know turn around,don't drown when there's water on the road,
and do you how do those thingscome up? Because for me,
the things that I say on aregular basis that that are you know,
if you're going to call it acatchphrase. They've all sprung up organically.
But is there like a weather manclean shay school that you go to in
order to get these snappy comments thatyou make in the weather. No,

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I think some of them are,and I will I will pass the credit
to the National Weather Service. Aspart of their initiative for a weather weather
ready nation, making sure people understandand can be prepared for the problems that
can come from weather, they've createdsome very catchphrase sayings, and so we've

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picked up on some of them,some of the ones you just mentioned when
thunder roars, go indoors, turnaround, don't drown, you know,
slow and steady when you're driving insnow. They just created these things so
that you know, it becomes partof our culture. The rest of it
is exactly like you said, It'sjust it's it's wisdom. It's old age
kept saying through the years. There'ssome things that stick with you. And

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I hear you, actually, Ithink you drew a fantastic Joe. I
hear you saying things that take meback in time. And it's the same
kind of a thing I can hearlike grandfather sit making that statement. Yes,
my dad making that statement, andthey just kind of stick with you
and some of them. So Ihaven't created anything. I will say I've
stolen things. Yeah, it doesbecome part of an easy way to pass

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along the message. There's no newideas, Dave, it's just those of
us who have found a way torepurpose the old ones there doing here.
Yeah, so what are we goahead right now? I was gonna say
we say that all the time inTV and in TV news. There's really
nothing new. We're just all kindof looking around to see what might be
different. But you know, it'sjust a matter of you know, do

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you pirate it, take it foryour own, or do you create something?
But the reality is it's it's thesame. So what do we got
in the next few weeks? Whatdo you see it in the long term
look that we maybe should pay attentionto, or we just headed into to
settle into our hot, dry summer. Yeah, I think so. I
am looking at the long range models, and again I always want to preface

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this that they don't give you anyinformation about day to day. It's kind
of an overview of what might happenover a thirty day, or a sixty
day or a ninety day. Sothe ninety day outlook, the three month
outlook through the end of the summerdoes look to be hot and dry.
That can be above average, butagain that could be two degrees above average
or a five degrees above average,so we're looking at warm spells. We
didn't have any ninety degree heat inMay, so May it was a good

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month for us. June we've alreadyposted six days, but we're nineteen days
into the month, so six outof nineteen at ninety or higher. Ninety
nine was the hottest we just hadyesterday, but the day before and so
on Monday, so that's been thehottest so far. And dry, we've
certainly dried out. And I wouldcaution people that while I don't know if

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we'll leap headfirst into extreme fire danger, but you're starting to notice some of
the natural grasses of the sage brushand everything getting a little bit rough and
looking a little more tan, ifnot round, and so just be careful,
especially on greezy to windy days,that you're not creating any type of
an open spark or a flame oranything. We certainly don't want to go
there, but we'll see what playsout. We have been in great shape

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for moisture. We're just being alittle starved here in June. Well,
I mean it's typical. You know. When I first moved here, I
was like, Oh my god,we're ready to drought. Now I'm like,
oh yeah, we're gonna drought again. It's fine, so fine.
But it's just the cycle of lifehere in Colorado. Absolutely it is that.
It's the cycles of the summers andeverything. Last summer was a good
summer for us. It came witha lot of severe weather. We've certainly

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had us to go And I chuckledtwo weeks ago this Thursday, So two
weeks ago from tomorrow. I wason your show that Wednesday before. We
were talking all about outflow boundaries andhow to create ale. And then that
next night we had that huge hailoutbreak that lasted from like nine o'clock at
night till midnight on the northeast sideof town Green Valley Lands got pumbled and
went close to the airport, andI'm sitting there we play in our conversation,

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going wow, this is SMaL otherseason, this is this is what
we have to deal with here inColorado. I got a couple of questions,
and I want to ask you quickly, what's the chance of his storming
during Thursday nights Rolling Stones concert.I think there's the fact that we were
talking about that yesterday. We thinkthat they probably won't take that. I
don't know what time they take thestage. You know, they're a little

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older. Yeah, exactly, I'mgonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna stay.
They're gonna wait to closer to thesunset because they want the stadium and
the lights and all of the rest. By that time, you know,
eight to nine o'clock timeframe, mostchances for storms will have gone past the
airport. So I think overall we'resafe. We've had many a concert at
Mile High in that time frame thatstorms have been in the forecast that they've

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passed by, So we'll keep ourfingers crossed. It does look like that's
the timing that everything should be goneeast of the metro of the I twenty
five quarter by about eight o'clock.And then one more question, and this
is for Dave on the pinpoint whetherapp which I use all the time,
why does it seem that the radaris not as accurate as it has been
in the past. Sometimes it doesn'tshow the rain that is falling in the

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area, or it may show rainbut nothing is happening. It can sometimes
there there could be a filter settingit where it's taking out maybe the lower
level stuff, so where it mightbe a lighter shower or sprinkle. The
radar is kind of masking that,if you will, and focusing more on

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where the heavy rain is. It'spart of the design of it and that
happens. I have the ability withwhat I use and play on air where
we can control that kind of filtersetting and go down to the lowest levels.
So it's kind of built that way. The great thing about the app,
and I will say this and youknow that, is the lightning detection
on it at this time of theyear, and that you can put it

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into future radar. So as you'relooking at storms that are off to the
west and you're insane Lakewood and you'rewondering what time they might come through,
it's pretty good at tracking those through. Plus, any storm that has a
track on it, you can clickliterally touch the interface and it will give
you information about that storm. Thedirection it's moving, how quickly it's moving,
whether or not it's producing hail.So it's pretty good in that respect.

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I won't say that it's perfect whenit comes to the radar, because
it does have some type of afilt during system in it. Right,
all right, Dave Frasier, majorityto talk to you as always. We'll
chat again next week. All right, join the rest of your week.
You two, You two. That'sa fraser from Fox thirty one.