07-03-24 Interview - Weather Wednesday with FOX31's Dave Fraser

Episode Transcript

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All right, we are here withour favorite meteorologists, not just a meteorologist,
but a chief meteorologist. And althoughhe's not thrifty, he is Dave
Frasier. Hey Dave, how youdo it? Happy Independence Day? Yeah,
same to you. Happy fourth Mandy. How you doing. I'm doing
just fine, looking forward to along weekend with my grandkids. Oh,

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good for you, Good for you. Enjoy it. Yeah. It seems
like most people are either a longweekend or they made it a whole week
because traffic has been a little lighter. Although it sounds like your guys are
reporting the volumes heavy going to themountains. Yep, no surprise there.
So let me ask what are peopleexpecting for Colorado over the holiday weekend.
Yeah? Cool, let's get thatforecast in play. It's actually looking pretty

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good. So tomorrow the entire state, Oh, let me say this,
ninety nine point nine percent of thestate looks fantastic sunshine. The computer models
the last twenty four to thirty sixhours are hinting at near the northern border
from about four to and by thatI mean near Wyoming and Nebraska running the
northern border. There might be oneor two little showers, maybe a nice

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lightd thunderstorm, and there's also avery low chance of the same thing south
of Castle Rock near you know whereGreenland is, and south of Larkspur kind
of near Monument Hill. So thosetwo little small corridors from four to six
may get one or two showers orstorms to come up. The air is
going to be very dry, soit's a very low chance. Our forecast
for Denver and the vast majority ofthe front range continues to be dry.

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It's going to be a beautiful fourthfor Joys. Maybe last year No.
Eighty one eighty two is our forecasttime. By the way, I looked
last year to get an idea tilllast year on the fourth it was seventy
eight, but it poured, Wehad thunderstorms all over the place. The
airport got like a three quarters ofan inch of rain or other places that
got more than an inch of rain. So last year was not a great
fourth. This year will be great. Friday, low eighties again, dry

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condition, Saturday, upper eighties.The advertised eighty nine will be right there
at sunshine, and then Sunday wedo have a cold front coming in.
We'll be back down to about eightydegrees and there will be a few scattered
shows and thunderstorms on Sunday, Somake your plans a quarterly and enjoy all.
Right now, I have a questionfrom one of our texters for Dave
the weather Guy. I have hearda theory that wind tower farms are affecting

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the weather. Your comments, please. I don't see anything about that.
I don't There's going to be allsorts of little things out and about on
social media and stuff like that,but I think in the grand scheme of
things, that is not something thatI would worry about at this point.
I just think that's somebody throw thatout there and it is what it is.
I don't have any research to backup anything to support that that is

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an issue. Well, how dourban heat islands? How does because we
know that they raise the temperature,but do they also affect the actual weather
above? Like you know, we'lluse Dnver's Denver's Urban Heat Center as an
example. Does that the rising heatfrom that? Does that affect the weather?

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Or is does it just affect thetempcause? How do those not?
How are those not connected? Itdoes affect the temperature, and you know
we have all sorts of micro climatesacross the area. Our topography creates some
of that, our elevation creates someof that. But yeah, so the
heat island. The fact is thatyou have you know, you look at
the city of Denver and the footprintthat it is, and you look at
all the concrete and the and thetar and the buildings and the materials and

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everything, and so during the days, especially on a hot summer day like
today, all of that is beingabsorbed in the buildings. So at night
as it cools, like you know, you're away from downtown Denver and you've
got greener pastures, or you're inthe foothills and the breeze is stern,
and you get in the cool aircoming down, the heat from the buildings
is slowly released back in and aroundthe city, so it holds the temperature

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up. And because you're dealing withheat, you're dealing with rising air,
and so it can cause the windto stir it a little bit. It's
not going to be hurricane force oranything, but it may be a little
breezier at times. And of coursethe buildings act, as you know,
barriers to wind flow and wind directionand stuff. So yes, it does
have an impact on it, There'sno question about it. And especially on
those hot hot days when we getpast ninety to ninety five or one hundred

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degrees, it's going to be hotterin the city, then it will be
in the surrounding outlying areas. Everytime someone says it's going to be hotter
in the city, this goes throughmy mind. Hot damn summer in the
city back of mine met getting dirtyand pretty. I think of it every
time, and it just went throughmy head when you said that. So
let me ask you, totally unrelatedto any of this stuff. We've got

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a massive hurricane hurricane barrel that isgoing to flatten Jamaica to a certain extent.
We'll have to wait and see howbad. Hopefully it's supposed to weaken.
But is that storm, because ofits magnitude, is that going to
create any problems for us or changethe jet stream? Or how does the
storm that big affect the overall weatheraround it north and south or yeah,

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north and south does it does affectit, and it can play. It
can get in the way sometimes Ilike to refer to as a traffic jam.
So, for instance, if thatstorm was turning east of Florida,
and running up the east coast somethingof that magnitude. If we were tracking
incoming cold fronts or storm system fromthe west coast and we think, oh,

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that storm will be here in twodays, and all of a sudden,
this hurricane now comes into the equationand it runs up the east coast.
Now you've got a traffic jam whereeverything trying to move east to west
is being blocked. So in thiscase, that storm to the south,
there's nothing really in its way.It's going to encounter a little cooler water
and that'll bring the intensity down.Remember, warm waters is what fuels these

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That's why it had such rapid intensification, jumped so quickly to a Cat five,
earliest ever on record. It'll startto come down a little bit,
then it'll hit the Yucatan Fininsul,then it'll head into Mexico. The question
is, and we're beyond Sunday Mandy, So it's beyond Sunday that was Where
does it go where the moisture,Well, it'll be remnants of it,
it won't be a storm anymore atthat point. But where does the extra

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moisture from that kind of curl?Does it curl up the west side of
Texas. Could there be flooding issuesthere? Could some of it being trained
into Denver's forecast with an incoming cold, maybe it increases the rain chances.
Those are things that we'll have tosee play out, but we've got to
watch. Remember, this is aspinning top, so as it loses speeds,
it's going to wabble a little bit, so its track is going to

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change. So we got to kindof wait for that to all happen before
we make final decisions on what mightoccur beyond Sunday. I realized that I've
driven My life has dramatically changed inmany ways since I moved here, But
two of the most dramatic are Ifinally stopped looking for alligators in the bodies
of water here in Colorado, becausewhen you're from Florida, every single body

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of water has an alligator in it, and you just want to know how
many, right, you want toknow what you're dealing with before you get
in. And the other one isI've stopped paying attention to hurricane season because
it dictates your life when you liveon the coast, and I'm not even
exaggerating it is something you cannot evernot think about. And I realized I
wasn't really paying attention to this stormuntil a friend of mine posted on Facebook

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that they were in Barbados, andI was like, wait, what,
there's a hurricane coming and they wherethey got through it with no problem.
So but it was like, what, that's two of the greatest changes.
No more alligators in water, andI don't have to pay attention closely to
hurricane season. And that's the onething about living where we do. I
mean, we get every other kindof weather on the planet. We certainly

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have to deal with hail more thanmost places in the country. But you
know, look, we've talked aboutit before. They're cool to look at,
they're sexy to watch them spin,they're beautiful. But we don't have
to worry about it, and that'sa great thing. So we track them
from here just in case. Likeyou said, people here may have friends
there and want to know what's goingon, or maybe you have relatives in
that part of the country. Ifit was making a strike towards the US

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mainland, whage, this one isnot so Hey, I got to quick.
You said, it's anything, youcan ask you anything. I got
a question, Okay, go ahead, What's what's for your step in on
my territory? You got your ownopen now. One of my listeners made
that for me. Isn't it awesome? It is. I heard it like
three days or late last week.I heard it and I went, hey,

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she's cutting into my chra. Okay, you're in the business, so
I can share this with you.And we've kind of talked about this with
our listeners. You know, wehave iHeartMedia has licenses to use all kinds
of music on the radio, butfor streaming and podcasting that's a whole different
license. So we wanted to getout our licensed music, get it out
so we could podcast the whole show. And the song that was the theme

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song for a long time was licensedfor the radio but not licensed for the
podcast. So and then this listenermade this song and it was so good
and I loved it so much thatwe made it the theme song. So
we can now put the whole podcast, including of the day, is now
being podcasted because we took out allof the no no music and put in
okay music. So there you go. Yeah, yeah, we have to
be careful. We run into thesame thing on the television side. We

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have to be careful about which musicwe choose, we pay and license exactly
because use. Yeah, we allwant to work in the rules, right,
we all we all want to followthe rules, and the rules are
really changing a lot, and sowe're trying to stay on top of it.
Yeah, we're trying to stay ontop of it. But that's why.
And I love the whole song longTime. I'm super happy about that.
Hey, just quickly, I knowyou're running tight on time. Just
a couple of things for your listenersout there. One, it's that time

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of the year. We've been hearingstories out at like Chatfield and some of
the reservoirs of the people being knockedoff of paddleboards. I own a paddleboard.
Listen any building cloud across the area. I just want people to be
knowledgeable. When you see a toweringcloud, even if it's not making any
noise, it's probably going to gustthe wind, so pay attention to that.
We don't want anybody to certainly getknocked over. And we've already seen
the problems with drownings here early onin the season. And always wear a

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life jacket if you're going to beout on a paddle board, even if
you're the best of swimmers, andthen fire danger is not extremely high going
into the fourth of July. Colorado, you know, has the laws about
what you can and can't like.I would just caution everybody that we did
have a very dry June. Julyis starting off dry, and so while
it may look green where you live, it doesn't mean that you can't have
problems. Always have a bucket ofwater or a hose close by. And

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then lastly, you had a callertwo weeks ago on the app, Mandy.
He was saying he couldn't see rain. I went to the app.
There is a transparency feature on theapp. It's hidden, but it's probably
adjusted up where you can't see thesmallest showers. And so if you go
to the app, there's three littledots on the bottom right hand side.
Click on that you'll see the transparencybar and slide it all the way down

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to your one hundred percent that youcan see everything, and then you'll be
able to see the smallest, tiniestof showers in your neighborhood. All right,
that's say Fraser Dave, Happy IndependenceDay to you, my friend.
Enjoy your time off with the grandKi