April 2, 2025 • 10 mins
UGH THIS WEATHER THOUGH Fox 31's Dave Fraser is on at 12:30 and we'll get the latest on the deteriorating forecast for Friday's home opener for the Rockies, when yours truly will be sitting outside at the corner of 20th and Blake from 9am to noon.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time to bring on Fox thirty one's Dave Frasier,
because Dave, I don't know what kind of weather dance
we need to do over here, but Friday is not
looking good.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What's the other expression, don't shoot the messenger?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Uh huh?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Yeah, No, No, last week things were actually looking kind
of pleasant, but of course that was ten days out,
and you know, that's just a good guess. Why has
the forecast changed so much this week? It seems like
every day I'm looking and then it's like, oh, hi
a forty four.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Oh it's going to snow. Oh it's going to rain.
Oh no it's not. Oh it's gonna be cloud Oh
wait ah, what's happening?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah, so you hit the nail on the head. It
was a ten day conversation we had when we were
talking about the Rockies. And while the ten day forecast
has gotten better, it's outside of the seven day, which
is a lot more accurate. You can see large scale patterns.
And I think I don't think I said it on
the air with you last week, but it may have
been a Rod who was asking and I said to him,
(00:57):
you know, right now, it looks good, looks like maybe
load in midge sixties, but there's one outlier model that
is indicating a chance of moisture, maybe a little cooler.
And of course now everything is come in line with
what that picture looks like. Although I'm sitting here massaging
the forecast right now and we're the biggest frustration right
now is the difference in the timing on Friday, which
(01:20):
of course is crucial to the game. With the first
picture two ten, that's the part of the forecast we're
trying to nail down with detail. Your description as I
heard you at the top of your show about what
to do if you were going to the game, I
think it's spot on. I think you have to dress
for chili temperatures. I think the temperatures during the game
will be around forty to forty two. There's going to
(01:42):
be a brisk north wind up to twenty miles per hour,
which swirling through the field can make it fail thirty
five to thirty eight degrees.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Not really what direction is that win is that when
going to carry the balls out or keep them in
the stadium.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
The wind will be coming from the northeast.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Okay, good, so the balls will stay in the stadium.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, okay, yeah, well, we hope, we hope their ball stay. Yeah, exactly,
and then it's the timing of any moisture. And at
this point I would caution and say, because we're dealing
with a narrow window of a few hours, I would
plan for there to be wet weather. It could be
rain showers that could mix with snow. I think the
(02:23):
chance for it to turn all snow probably doesn't come
until maybe after the game. But it's certainly going to
be a kind of a raw, chilly, cold, damp event
in low dough. Our cruis will be down in the morning.
I know you and Roster going down in the morning. Man,
make sure you're wearing the right foot of tie. Your
feet are going to be freezing if you're standing outside
(02:44):
for one periods of time on concrete. Just rest appropriately.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Well, it's you know, the sweet say there is no
bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
So there you go, exactly.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I have a question from one of our textures that
is significant, Manny, can you ask about the weather in
the planes to day at about the tornado threats?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
What do we got going on in the plains.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
So that's the storm that we had come through yesterday,
And yes, it's a little bumpy out there in the Midwest.
They do have a threat for severe weather. That happens
not all the time, but it happens quite a bit
for us, where we see the storms that we deal
with go out into the plains and become nasty storms
out there, and so there is a risk for severe
weather to the east of us. Fortunately we didn't have
(03:25):
to deal with that. We've got enough to deal with.
We've got a storm coming in tomorrow. Was that the
one Friday that was into Saturday morning. After that, you're
going to love. The forecast is we'll get back to
dry and sunny conditions. But yeah, right now, there's a
nasty line of thunderstorms that stretches from Chicago all the
way down to east of Dallas, and pretty good snow
in Minneapolis and the Twin Cities. I wouldn't be surprised
(03:46):
if they're dealing with flight delaying and out of the
Twin Cities.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
There was a little bit of hail at my personal trainer,
So we got a hailed on last night and she said,
you know, she's from here, and she said, we don't
get hail like this in early April. Is that accurate
or does it just feel like we don't get hail
until the summer.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Oh no, we can get hal at this time of
the year as soon as we enter the spring what
we call convective season, where the storms tower up. Any
thunderstorm can produce hail, And at this time of the year,
the freezing level in order to turn those rain drops
into ice is lower, so it's easier to reach. You
don't have to tower the storm up to forty fifty
sixty thousand feet. That cold air is not that far
(04:28):
off the ground. So yesterday we had a storm that
kind of went right across the heart of the Metro
and on radar you could see it. The color intensity
on the radar went from you know, like a light green,
and all of a sudden there was this deep, screaming
red and that was the convective nature of that storm
kind of towering up, and we had some thunder and
lightning in there. So it was just basically it was
a thunderstorm, regardless of the fact that it was April first,
(04:51):
and in there there was some small hill There was
also some groppel in there too, because I saw pictures
from a lot of viewers where and that's you know,
it can look like hail bounces, so it can you know,
imitate hail. But it's a soft snow pellet as opposed
to hall, which is, you know, more composed of ice.
And it was small, so we had both yesterday and
just a sign of the season to come.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Groppol is like the most adorable form of precipitation in
live view. It's like the cutest little baby snowballs, right,
I mean they're just it's like little tiny Lilliputian snowballs.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
And I didn't know that that was the thing.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
You know, when you grew up in Florida, Dave, you
don't realize that there are all these different kinds of snow, right,
You just don't. And I read somewhere and I think
it's like the Eskimos or in Alaska have like forty
five different words for snow because there's so many different kinds.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
That was a revelation for me.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
You just don't think about that when you don't live
in snow, that there's all these different varieties of snow.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Yeah, and our altitude plays into that, that the temperatures
play into that. So we get all of those variations
from the champagne powder of Steamboat Springs to the concrete
slushing stuff that ways, you know, ten pounds when you're
shoveling it. And I think groppolis is quite interesting myself.
You know, we call them dipping guts. Yeah, they look
(06:07):
like when they're hitting the ground, you know exactly. You
don't get the ring, you don't get the rainbow colors, and.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
They don't mess up your car like Hale does. Got it.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah, I got a question from the Springs Colorado Springs
was all Ice this morning, says this Texter, can we
anticipate that again tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
So there will be So tomorrow we have the leading
edge of the southern storm, and in the morning there's
going to be a little band of snow that comes
up from Colorado Springs over Monument Hill and into the
Denver area, and then it will kind of change back
to rain. So I'm anticipating that arriving in Denver probably
around ten in the morning. But because it's a daytime
(06:45):
storm in April, sun is a lot higher, a lot stronger,
I think it'll probably melt on the roads. However, I
would say if it gets started in the Springs early
before the sun gets going, I would caution people that
watch off the bridges and overpasses. Yes, because we're in
that period where the pavement gets warm during the day
because the April sun is a little stronger moisture on
top of it. If it gets any type of cooling
(07:06):
canterm slick. So I would caution to be careful early
tomorrow morning once the sun gets going on, I think
you'll see a lot of melting on the roads and
some grassy accumulation with that snow in the morning. We're
thinking around to happen inch or so in a few spots,
and then it changes back over the rain and that's
the first wave. And then of course you heard me
talk about world we're anticipating come Friday into Saturday morning.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Okay, I got one question about the Pinpoint Weather app,
and it says is the Pinpoint Weather app accurate across
the US and in other countries? How does the Pinpoint
Weather app get its information? Do you guys feed information
into that, because I know it's an app that you
and a lot of other Fox stations use across the
country simultaneously at the same time. How does that app populate?
(07:50):
Where does that come from? And is it accurate in
other countries?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
All apps use model data. Some apps use just raw
model data. So you can see discrepancies between Weather app
A and Weather maap E because they may be using
different data. And that's things that we as meteorologists look at.
We look at those different arrays and those different data
sets to come up with what we think is the
best picture. The one thing I will say about our
(08:16):
app is it comes from our parent company, the Weather Company,
which uses IBM technology and Watson AI technology, and so
it ingests the model data, and then it has its
own model data that it puts out, and so we
massage that a little bit here for us in Colorado,
but I think it's also being massaged across the country.
(08:37):
I can't answer specifically to internationally how it does, but
I would think it would play on a model that
is best suited for whatever country you're in. And again,
it's a forecast, right, so it's not going to be absolute.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
But I have.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Compared them over time, and I like the way our
app is set up for using it on a local level,
for protect you from lightning, from being able to put
the radar into motion to watch as it's gone from
the last two hours to now, and then you can
hit the future button to see how it progresses out.
You got your hour by hour, You've got all your
alert You've got your seven day, your ten day. You
(09:14):
can click on the days of the week and get
more details about timing within the day. I just think
it's laid out perfectly and you can set notifications on
it so like I do, and I think a lot
of viewers. You know, once I get lightning within a
ten mile, lady is, it's alerting me and I do
that to my location not so right right and follows me.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I have four weather apps on my phone, and I
feel like it's the most accurate.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
And I'm not just saying that's a blow smoke.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I just wouldn't have said anything right now if I
didn't really think it. But out of the four that
I have, I don't.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Know why I'm so weather obsessed, but I do. I
check all of them.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I feel like it is the most accurate in real time,
meaning when it comes to the forecast, like you want
to know the next thirty six hours, it is by
far the most accurate out of all of them. Dave Frasier,
I appreciate you and we will talk again next week.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Stay warm, but enjoy opening Day to everybody going down
to revel in Lodo, and good luck to the Rockies
as they kick off their home opener.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Absolutely thanks Dave Fraser. We'll talk to you next week,
all
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Right, by bye bye bye
It's time to bring on Fox thirty one's Dave Frasier,
because Dave, I don't know what kind of weather dance
we need to do over here, but Friday is not
looking good.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What's the other expression, don't shoot the messenger?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Uh huh?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Yeah, No, No, last week things were actually looking kind
of pleasant, but of course that was ten days out,
and you know, that's just a good guess. Why has
the forecast changed so much this week? It seems like
every day I'm looking and then it's like, oh, hi
a forty four.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Oh it's going to snow. Oh it's going to rain.
Oh no it's not. Oh it's gonna be cloud Oh
wait ah, what's happening?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah, so you hit the nail on the head. It
was a ten day conversation we had when we were
talking about the Rockies. And while the ten day forecast
has gotten better, it's outside of the seven day, which
is a lot more accurate. You can see large scale patterns.
And I think I don't think I said it on
the air with you last week, but it may have
been a Rod who was asking and I said to him,
(00:57):
you know, right now, it looks good, looks like maybe
load in midge sixties, but there's one outlier model that
is indicating a chance of moisture, maybe a little cooler.
And of course now everything is come in line with
what that picture looks like. Although I'm sitting here massaging
the forecast right now and we're the biggest frustration right
now is the difference in the timing on Friday, which
(01:20):
of course is crucial to the game. With the first
picture two ten, that's the part of the forecast we're
trying to nail down with detail. Your description as I
heard you at the top of your show about what
to do if you were going to the game, I
think it's spot on. I think you have to dress
for chili temperatures. I think the temperatures during the game
will be around forty to forty two. There's going to
(01:42):
be a brisk north wind up to twenty miles per hour,
which swirling through the field can make it fail thirty
five to thirty eight degrees.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Not really what direction is that win is that when
going to carry the balls out or keep them in
the stadium.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
The wind will be coming from the northeast.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Okay, good, so the balls will stay in the stadium.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, okay, yeah, well, we hope, we hope their ball stay. Yeah, exactly,
and then it's the timing of any moisture. And at
this point I would caution and say, because we're dealing
with a narrow window of a few hours, I would
plan for there to be wet weather. It could be
rain showers that could mix with snow. I think the
(02:23):
chance for it to turn all snow probably doesn't come
until maybe after the game. But it's certainly going to
be a kind of a raw, chilly, cold, damp event
in low dough. Our cruis will be down in the morning.
I know you and Roster going down in the morning. Man,
make sure you're wearing the right foot of tie. Your
feet are going to be freezing if you're standing outside
(02:44):
for one periods of time on concrete. Just rest appropriately.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Well, it's you know, the sweet say there is no
bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
So there you go, exactly.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I have a question from one of our textures that
is significant, Manny, can you ask about the weather in
the planes to day at about the tornado threats?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
What do we got going on in the plains.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
So that's the storm that we had come through yesterday,
And yes, it's a little bumpy out there in the Midwest.
They do have a threat for severe weather. That happens
not all the time, but it happens quite a bit
for us, where we see the storms that we deal
with go out into the plains and become nasty storms
out there, and so there is a risk for severe
weather to the east of us. Fortunately we didn't have
(03:25):
to deal with that. We've got enough to deal with.
We've got a storm coming in tomorrow. Was that the
one Friday that was into Saturday morning. After that, you're
going to love. The forecast is we'll get back to
dry and sunny conditions. But yeah, right now, there's a
nasty line of thunderstorms that stretches from Chicago all the
way down to east of Dallas, and pretty good snow
in Minneapolis and the Twin Cities. I wouldn't be surprised
(03:46):
if they're dealing with flight delaying and out of the
Twin Cities.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
There was a little bit of hail at my personal trainer,
So we got a hailed on last night and she said,
you know, she's from here, and she said, we don't
get hail like this in early April. Is that accurate
or does it just feel like we don't get hail
until the summer.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Oh no, we can get hal at this time of
the year as soon as we enter the spring what
we call convective season, where the storms tower up. Any
thunderstorm can produce hail, And at this time of the year,
the freezing level in order to turn those rain drops
into ice is lower, so it's easier to reach. You
don't have to tower the storm up to forty fifty
sixty thousand feet. That cold air is not that far
(04:28):
off the ground. So yesterday we had a storm that
kind of went right across the heart of the Metro
and on radar you could see it. The color intensity
on the radar went from you know, like a light green,
and all of a sudden there was this deep, screaming
red and that was the convective nature of that storm
kind of towering up, and we had some thunder and
lightning in there. So it was just basically it was
a thunderstorm, regardless of the fact that it was April first,
(04:51):
and in there there was some small hill There was
also some groppel in there too, because I saw pictures
from a lot of viewers where and that's you know,
it can look like hail bounces, so it can you know,
imitate hail. But it's a soft snow pellet as opposed
to hall, which is, you know, more composed of ice.
And it was small, so we had both yesterday and
just a sign of the season to come.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Groppol is like the most adorable form of precipitation in
live view. It's like the cutest little baby snowballs, right,
I mean they're just it's like little tiny Lilliputian snowballs.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
And I didn't know that that was the thing.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
You know, when you grew up in Florida, Dave, you
don't realize that there are all these different kinds of snow, right,
You just don't. And I read somewhere and I think
it's like the Eskimos or in Alaska have like forty
five different words for snow because there's so many different kinds.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
That was a revelation for me.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
You just don't think about that when you don't live
in snow, that there's all these different varieties of snow.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Yeah, and our altitude plays into that, that the temperatures
play into that. So we get all of those variations
from the champagne powder of Steamboat Springs to the concrete
slushing stuff that ways, you know, ten pounds when you're
shoveling it. And I think groppolis is quite interesting myself.
You know, we call them dipping guts. Yeah, they look
(06:07):
like when they're hitting the ground, you know exactly. You
don't get the ring, you don't get the rainbow colors, and.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
They don't mess up your car like Hale does. Got it.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah, I got a question from the Springs Colorado Springs
was all Ice this morning, says this Texter, can we
anticipate that again tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
So there will be So tomorrow we have the leading
edge of the southern storm, and in the morning there's
going to be a little band of snow that comes
up from Colorado Springs over Monument Hill and into the
Denver area, and then it will kind of change back
to rain. So I'm anticipating that arriving in Denver probably
around ten in the morning. But because it's a daytime
(06:45):
storm in April, sun is a lot higher, a lot stronger,
I think it'll probably melt on the roads. However, I
would say if it gets started in the Springs early
before the sun gets going, I would caution people that
watch off the bridges and overpasses. Yes, because we're in
that period where the pavement gets warm during the day
because the April sun is a little stronger moisture on
top of it. If it gets any type of cooling
(07:06):
canterm slick. So I would caution to be careful early
tomorrow morning once the sun gets going on, I think
you'll see a lot of melting on the roads and
some grassy accumulation with that snow in the morning. We're
thinking around to happen inch or so in a few spots,
and then it changes back over the rain and that's
the first wave. And then of course you heard me
talk about world we're anticipating come Friday into Saturday morning.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Okay, I got one question about the Pinpoint Weather app,
and it says is the Pinpoint Weather app accurate across
the US and in other countries? How does the Pinpoint
Weather app get its information? Do you guys feed information
into that, because I know it's an app that you
and a lot of other Fox stations use across the
country simultaneously at the same time. How does that app populate?
(07:50):
Where does that come from? And is it accurate in
other countries?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
All apps use model data. Some apps use just raw
model data. So you can see discrepancies between Weather app
A and Weather maap E because they may be using
different data. And that's things that we as meteorologists look at.
We look at those different arrays and those different data
sets to come up with what we think is the
best picture. The one thing I will say about our
(08:16):
app is it comes from our parent company, the Weather Company,
which uses IBM technology and Watson AI technology, and so
it ingests the model data, and then it has its
own model data that it puts out, and so we
massage that a little bit here for us in Colorado,
but I think it's also being massaged across the country.
(08:37):
I can't answer specifically to internationally how it does, but
I would think it would play on a model that
is best suited for whatever country you're in. And again,
it's a forecast, right, so it's not going to be absolute.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
But I have.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Compared them over time, and I like the way our
app is set up for using it on a local level,
for protect you from lightning, from being able to put
the radar into motion to watch as it's gone from
the last two hours to now, and then you can
hit the future button to see how it progresses out.
You got your hour by hour, You've got all your
alert You've got your seven day, your ten day. You
(09:14):
can click on the days of the week and get
more details about timing within the day. I just think
it's laid out perfectly and you can set notifications on
it so like I do, and I think a lot
of viewers. You know, once I get lightning within a
ten mile, lady is, it's alerting me and I do
that to my location not so right right and follows me.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I have four weather apps on my phone, and I
feel like it's the most accurate.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
And I'm not just saying that's a blow smoke.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I just wouldn't have said anything right now if I
didn't really think it. But out of the four that
I have, I don't.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Know why I'm so weather obsessed, but I do. I
check all of them.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I feel like it is the most accurate in real time,
meaning when it comes to the forecast, like you want
to know the next thirty six hours, it is by
far the most accurate out of all of them. Dave Frasier,
I appreciate you and we will talk again next week.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Stay warm, but enjoy opening Day to everybody going down
to revel in Lodo, and good luck to the Rockies
as they kick off their home opener.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Absolutely thanks Dave Fraser. We'll talk to you next week,
all
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Right, by bye bye bye
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