October 9, 2024 • 10 mins
I'M GUESSING WE'LL CHAT ABOUT HURRICANE MILTON When we do Weather Wednesday with Fox 31 Chief Meteorologist Dave Fraser at 12:30 but get your weather questions ready.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dave Fraser, Fox thirty one meteorologist, How are you today, sir.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm doing good. I'm doing good. I've been listening. I
glad to hear that you reached out to your friends
and family or whoever and got them to consider going.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
And they all have. Everybody on the West coast has relocated,
and everybody on the East coast is ready. So everybody
is as good as they can be in Florida right now.
And so I want to ask you this is so
I'm gonna ask you an absurd question, Okay, And even
as I ask it to you, I know as it's
coming out of my mouth it's an absurd question. But
going around the internet right now, Dave Frasier, there is
(00:37):
all of this stuff about how the government is controlling
the weather. Specifically, they made Helene go up the southeast
United States right over the lithium mines. And that's I mean,
the let's talk about government controlling weather, shall we, Dave?
Where are we in that process?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
We're on the test pool of social with that. Let's
be honest. I mean, listen, there's conspiracy theorists for everything.
But if you're saying that any there's any way that
we can control something the size of a Haleen or
a Milton and share it or drive it or direct
it in one direction or another. Uh, there's not a chance.
(01:20):
There's just no there's no way. There's no way. So
I'll I'll just leave that to the conspiratorists and those
on social media to spread whatever they want to do.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
It's so Dave, It's just it shows that this isn't
really about weather, but it shows that people are so
distrustful of the government that they would rather believe that
not only think about it like this. And this is
what I said back to someone on social media not
too long ago, who's actually a friend of mine, who
posted this on Facebook, and I was like, stop doing this,
(01:51):
just stop doing this. This makes you look stupid because
you have to believe that not only does a government
send a hurricane to kill hundreds of people in Helene,
you also have to believe that they let farmers in
the Midwest go through horrific droughts that destroy their crops,
that allow hailstorms to happen that destroy those crops. So
you have to believe that the government is so bad
(02:14):
that they would let people starve and go out of business.
And then destroy their homes and livelihood and interstate highways
for what I mean, it's just so dumb. It's so dumb.
Now I want to ask a follow up question though,
because there have been efforts to try and control the weather,
the Heart program in Alaska. I mean, these are documented
(02:36):
scientific experiments trying to control the weather, but to my knowledge,
they've not been successful in any way, shape or for right.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Even cloud seating, while it does, while it is a thing,
and it does they do do it here in parts
of Colorado, the success rate is very, very low. So yeah,
there's just not much you're going to do. I mean,
just think about where we are, the size of the planet,
the minuscule impact we could have in controlling the weather
across the you know, across the planet, the strength of
(03:06):
the sun, the power of the oceans. There's just no
way that I could wrap my brain around that contributions,
you know, cloud seating and stuff like that. Sure's it's
one of the things that frustrates me the most about
social media, and I tend to turn a deaf ear,
if you will. I tend to do less and less
on social media because of that. Yeah, it's just a
lot of it's a lot of noise. And again we're
(03:27):
off topic with weather, but it's a lot of noise.
And I tell my two sons all the time, you
know two things, stay away from Stay away from politics
and religion unless you're comfortable discussing them with the people
in front of you. Otherwise it just turns into a
fight or an argument. And it's another reason why I
don't go down the rabbit hole of global warming. You know,
do I believe there has been you know, are we
(03:47):
in a certain climate change right now? Certainly? I mean,
look at just what's happened with Alene, look at what's
happening with Milton. You can't argue with but you will
get into an argument. There's just no right or wrong.
The minute you go in one direction on either side
of that conversation, somebody's coming at you from the other side.
So the best thing for me to do is just
quietly sit in the background and let people fight amongst themselves.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
That's a great strategy. Now, let's talk about our weather,
which has been unseasonably warm. And I just said to
a Rod, I'm actually enjoying this. I could lie to you.
I just think it's so pleasant outside I know it's
a little too warm for people, but it's beautiful outside
even with the smoke. And when is this going to end?
And are we going to have a warm Halloween or
(04:27):
is that going to be our first big snow.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
So I agree with you and your assessment of it
being you know, this type of warmth is not summer heat. Yeah,
it's just got that warm kind of wrap around you
kind of feel during the day. But as soon as
we get to those earlier sunsets, the temperatures drop au
dramatically and you've got your cool, crisp nights. And that's
the balance and the great part of September and October.
(04:50):
We can have these warm days, but it's not the
summer heat we are seeing, and it's not uncommon. We're
getting later into the month of October, the sun's angle
is getting lower, the days are getting shorter. So as
I'm sitting here doing the forecast right now, one of
the things we're seeing is two cold fronts coming our way.
The first one comes on Friday, gets us out of
(05:10):
the eighties and down into about the mid seventies. Nice refreshing,
little change. Right now, Denver's average is about sixty eight degrees.
There's a second cold front coming, so we'll one back
up on Saturday into the low eighties. The second one
comes in Sunday. That one looks to have cool enough
air behind it that it will sit and stay. So
our forecast is actually going to be a mix of
(05:31):
upper sixties, more seasonal readings starting early next week, and
some low seventies. But right now, once we get beyond
Saturday's eighty degree temperature, I don't see eighties coming back
at this point, within at least the next ten days. However,
we do look to stay dry. That part of the
equation is not going to change.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
So the we're not even I mean I don't even
have to bring my plants in from outside yet. We're
not even looking at that, like we're not even sniffing
our first freeze yet.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
No. And I heard you and a Rod talking about
the sprinkler system. I know you've got yours planning. A
lot of people like you have them scheduled out ahead
of time, and it's gonna they're gonna come and shut
them off whenever, and you're okay with your long going dormit.
It is that time of the year anyway. Your grass
is probably looking green like a Rod talked about. I
did chastise him about spending too much money and throwing
must st Yeah, yeah, just throwing money away. Listen, your
(06:25):
grass looks green and it's great. It's because of the
cool Chris Knight. But it's not growing like it does
in the summer. So you should be reducing your water dramatically.
You should not be watering as much. Save the money,
put it in your pocket. Don't worry about blowing your
sprinklers out to your seyet if you don't want to,
because your trees and your shrubs could use a drink.
But keep an eye on the forecast to that first
(06:45):
shot at fleezing temperatures, and that's when you're going to
want to start. And I will tell you that's not
for the next ten days, so you can leave them
on if you've got them scheduled, like manager that have
blown out, blown out and call it a season. All right.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
So let me ask you this question from a texter.
I gotta find it because a lot of texts have
come in now. It says, please ask Dave. Is this
a warm pattern going so late, the new normal going forward,
or just a random off year. I mean, we kind
of talked about. I'm with you, it's apparent to me
the earth is warming right. The underpinnings will leave to
(07:19):
others to discuss right now, But is this going to
be our new normal? Are we going to have warm falls?
Or is it too soon to tell?
Speaker 2 (07:26):
You know what we have seen. I think what we
need is a larger database to look at it to
see if we can determine whether it is a new
due to climate change, and whether it's new or not.
I think we would need probably maybe ten years worth
of records. We had seen some warm Septembers and Octobers
of late. We've also noticed in the last couple of years,
(07:48):
and you may have noticed this as well, that March
and April we always tout as our snowiest months, but
I think in the last six years that'd be a worry. Yeah,
has outdone March as the snowiest month. So could that
signal the change in kind of the maybe a slight
shift in the seasons where fall hangs or summer goes
a little later and winter starts a little later and
(08:09):
it ramps up and then spring comes. I think we
need a bigger database to be able to really be
able to say with any kind of concrete evidence that yeah,
we might be seeing as shift. But remember that the
climate is cyclical. We know that over the duration. And
while we've had records, for instance here in Denver, going
back to eighteen seventy two, I heard you talking earlier,
(08:30):
there are things that we can't compare before we had records.
For instance, you mentioned the mill of bars for low
pressure as it relates to hurricanes. We didn't even start
keeping those records till nineteen seventy nine, so our database
is not very deep when it comes to the history
of weather and climate on this planet.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
All right, So that is I have nothing to add
because I think you're right. So we'll just leave it
at that. What is our immediate forecast before we let
you go?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Eighties today? There's a little smoke in the air, not
in Denver. We've got beautiful air from Denver to the south,
and you should get into the northeast corner, some of
that smoke should lift out. We're Sunday and dry again.
I think we're about eighty four tomorrow. I think we're
seventy four on Friday. I think we're eighty one eighty
two on Saturday, and then I've got probably around seventy Sunday,
(09:22):
upper sixties, Monday seventy one, seventy two, just about every
day next week, and your overnight lows here's the key,
may get down a couple of mornings into the upper thirties.
Not cold enough to be worried about sprinklers, but maybe
a little cross on the pumpkin in a few places.
All right, sweater weather, a.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Rod, A little frost on the pumpkin almost sounds dirty,
Dave Fraser, I'm just like.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Dave ayrod.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Once again, no snow on Halloween.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Right as of right now, the fourtecast continues to look
dry and warmth for the month. We're right about a
nine degree average above for the month of October.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
All right, BOK thirty one, Chief Meteorologist, Dave Fraser. I
appreciate you. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
The same back at you, Thank you, thanks sing
Dave Fraser, Fox thirty one meteorologist, How are you today, sir.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm doing good. I'm doing good. I've been listening. I
glad to hear that you reached out to your friends
and family or whoever and got them to consider going.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
And they all have. Everybody on the West coast has relocated,
and everybody on the East coast is ready. So everybody
is as good as they can be in Florida right now.
And so I want to ask you this is so
I'm gonna ask you an absurd question, Okay, And even
as I ask it to you, I know as it's
coming out of my mouth it's an absurd question. But
going around the internet right now, Dave Frasier, there is
(00:37):
all of this stuff about how the government is controlling
the weather. Specifically, they made Helene go up the southeast
United States right over the lithium mines. And that's I mean,
the let's talk about government controlling weather, shall we, Dave?
Where are we in that process?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
We're on the test pool of social with that. Let's
be honest. I mean, listen, there's conspiracy theorists for everything.
But if you're saying that any there's any way that
we can control something the size of a Haleen or
a Milton and share it or drive it or direct
it in one direction or another. Uh, there's not a chance.
(01:20):
There's just no there's no way. There's no way. So
I'll I'll just leave that to the conspiratorists and those
on social media to spread whatever they want to do.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
It's so Dave, It's just it shows that this isn't
really about weather, but it shows that people are so
distrustful of the government that they would rather believe that
not only think about it like this. And this is
what I said back to someone on social media not
too long ago, who's actually a friend of mine, who
posted this on Facebook, and I was like, stop doing this,
(01:51):
just stop doing this. This makes you look stupid because
you have to believe that not only does a government
send a hurricane to kill hundreds of people in Helene,
you also have to believe that they let farmers in
the Midwest go through horrific droughts that destroy their crops,
that allow hailstorms to happen that destroy those crops. So
you have to believe that the government is so bad
(02:14):
that they would let people starve and go out of business.
And then destroy their homes and livelihood and interstate highways
for what I mean, it's just so dumb. It's so dumb.
Now I want to ask a follow up question though,
because there have been efforts to try and control the weather,
the Heart program in Alaska. I mean, these are documented
(02:36):
scientific experiments trying to control the weather, but to my knowledge,
they've not been successful in any way, shape or for right.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Even cloud seating, while it does, while it is a thing,
and it does they do do it here in parts
of Colorado, the success rate is very, very low. So yeah,
there's just not much you're going to do. I mean,
just think about where we are, the size of the planet,
the minuscule impact we could have in controlling the weather
across the you know, across the planet, the strength of
(03:06):
the sun, the power of the oceans. There's just no
way that I could wrap my brain around that contributions,
you know, cloud seating and stuff like that. Sure's it's
one of the things that frustrates me the most about
social media, and I tend to turn a deaf ear,
if you will. I tend to do less and less
on social media because of that. Yeah, it's just a
lot of it's a lot of noise. And again we're
(03:27):
off topic with weather, but it's a lot of noise.
And I tell my two sons all the time, you
know two things, stay away from Stay away from politics
and religion unless you're comfortable discussing them with the people
in front of you. Otherwise it just turns into a
fight or an argument. And it's another reason why I
don't go down the rabbit hole of global warming. You know,
do I believe there has been you know, are we
(03:47):
in a certain climate change right now? Certainly? I mean,
look at just what's happened with Alene, look at what's
happening with Milton. You can't argue with but you will
get into an argument. There's just no right or wrong.
The minute you go in one direction on either side
of that conversation, somebody's coming at you from the other side.
So the best thing for me to do is just
quietly sit in the background and let people fight amongst themselves.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
That's a great strategy. Now, let's talk about our weather,
which has been unseasonably warm. And I just said to
a Rod, I'm actually enjoying this. I could lie to you.
I just think it's so pleasant outside I know it's
a little too warm for people, but it's beautiful outside
even with the smoke. And when is this going to end?
And are we going to have a warm Halloween or
(04:27):
is that going to be our first big snow.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
So I agree with you and your assessment of it
being you know, this type of warmth is not summer heat. Yeah,
it's just got that warm kind of wrap around you
kind of feel during the day. But as soon as
we get to those earlier sunsets, the temperatures drop au
dramatically and you've got your cool, crisp nights. And that's
the balance and the great part of September and October.
(04:50):
We can have these warm days, but it's not the
summer heat we are seeing, and it's not uncommon. We're
getting later into the month of October, the sun's angle
is getting lower, the days are getting shorter. So as
I'm sitting here doing the forecast right now, one of
the things we're seeing is two cold fronts coming our way.
The first one comes on Friday, gets us out of
(05:10):
the eighties and down into about the mid seventies. Nice refreshing,
little change. Right now, Denver's average is about sixty eight degrees.
There's a second cold front coming, so we'll one back
up on Saturday into the low eighties. The second one
comes in Sunday. That one looks to have cool enough
air behind it that it will sit and stay. So
our forecast is actually going to be a mix of
(05:31):
upper sixties, more seasonal readings starting early next week, and
some low seventies. But right now, once we get beyond
Saturday's eighty degree temperature, I don't see eighties coming back
at this point, within at least the next ten days. However,
we do look to stay dry. That part of the
equation is not going to change.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
So the we're not even I mean I don't even
have to bring my plants in from outside yet. We're
not even looking at that, like we're not even sniffing
our first freeze yet.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
No. And I heard you and a Rod talking about
the sprinkler system. I know you've got yours planning. A
lot of people like you have them scheduled out ahead
of time, and it's gonna they're gonna come and shut
them off whenever, and you're okay with your long going dormit.
It is that time of the year anyway. Your grass
is probably looking green like a Rod talked about. I
did chastise him about spending too much money and throwing
must st Yeah, yeah, just throwing money away. Listen, your
(06:25):
grass looks green and it's great. It's because of the
cool Chris Knight. But it's not growing like it does
in the summer. So you should be reducing your water dramatically.
You should not be watering as much. Save the money,
put it in your pocket. Don't worry about blowing your
sprinklers out to your seyet if you don't want to,
because your trees and your shrubs could use a drink.
But keep an eye on the forecast to that first
(06:45):
shot at fleezing temperatures, and that's when you're going to
want to start. And I will tell you that's not
for the next ten days, so you can leave them
on if you've got them scheduled, like manager that have
blown out, blown out and call it a season. All right.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
So let me ask you this question from a texter.
I gotta find it because a lot of texts have
come in now. It says, please ask Dave. Is this
a warm pattern going so late, the new normal going forward,
or just a random off year. I mean, we kind
of talked about. I'm with you, it's apparent to me
the earth is warming right. The underpinnings will leave to
(07:19):
others to discuss right now, But is this going to
be our new normal? Are we going to have warm falls?
Or is it too soon to tell?
Speaker 2 (07:26):
You know what we have seen. I think what we
need is a larger database to look at it to
see if we can determine whether it is a new
due to climate change, and whether it's new or not.
I think we would need probably maybe ten years worth
of records. We had seen some warm Septembers and Octobers
of late. We've also noticed in the last couple of years,
(07:48):
and you may have noticed this as well, that March
and April we always tout as our snowiest months, but
I think in the last six years that'd be a worry. Yeah,
has outdone March as the snowiest month. So could that
signal the change in kind of the maybe a slight
shift in the seasons where fall hangs or summer goes
a little later and winter starts a little later and
(08:09):
it ramps up and then spring comes. I think we
need a bigger database to be able to really be
able to say with any kind of concrete evidence that yeah,
we might be seeing as shift. But remember that the
climate is cyclical. We know that over the duration. And
while we've had records, for instance here in Denver, going
back to eighteen seventy two, I heard you talking earlier,
(08:30):
there are things that we can't compare before we had records.
For instance, you mentioned the mill of bars for low
pressure as it relates to hurricanes. We didn't even start
keeping those records till nineteen seventy nine, so our database
is not very deep when it comes to the history
of weather and climate on this planet.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
All right, So that is I have nothing to add
because I think you're right. So we'll just leave it
at that. What is our immediate forecast before we let
you go?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Eighties today? There's a little smoke in the air, not
in Denver. We've got beautiful air from Denver to the south,
and you should get into the northeast corner, some of
that smoke should lift out. We're Sunday and dry again.
I think we're about eighty four tomorrow. I think we're
seventy four on Friday. I think we're eighty one eighty
two on Saturday, and then I've got probably around seventy Sunday,
(09:22):
upper sixties, Monday seventy one, seventy two, just about every
day next week, and your overnight lows here's the key,
may get down a couple of mornings into the upper thirties.
Not cold enough to be worried about sprinklers, but maybe
a little cross on the pumpkin in a few places.
All right, sweater weather, a.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Rod, A little frost on the pumpkin almost sounds dirty,
Dave Fraser, I'm just like.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Dave ayrod.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Once again, no snow on Halloween.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Right as of right now, the fourtecast continues to look
dry and warmth for the month. We're right about a
nine degree average above for the month of October.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
All right, BOK thirty one, Chief Meteorologist, Dave Fraser. I
appreciate you. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
The same back at you, Thank you, thanks sing
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