April 16, 2025 • 8 mins
WINTER IS COMING BACK SOON So enjoy today and we'll find out from Fox 31's Dave Fraser when and what we can expect this weekend, when things are going to be a lot messier than they are now. He joins me at 12:30.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's jump right to it, because this weekend I have
enjoyed the heck out the last couple of days. Not
gonna lie nice and warm. But we're not done with
winter yet.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
We are not. You know, when we told you April
is Denver's second snowiest month, it should be no surprise
that the chance for snows still exists. You know, I'm
looking at the forecast as I always do before talking
with you, and you know it goes back to the
same conversation we had the last couple of weeks if
things started to green up and people wondering about turning
sprinklers on and is it too early to plant. Well,
(00:30):
I've got three mornings Friday morning, Saturday morning, and Sunday morning,
all with temperatures below freezing twenty eight to twenty eight
to thirty degree. So that is why we always say
don't go too fast into spring. You've got to wait
until Mother's Day before we can guarantee you that those
overnight lows won't be below freezing. So yep, that's what
(00:51):
we're looking at. We got snow starting Thursday after midnight
on and off Friday, and wrapping up maybe a little
later Sunday. Morning. It looks like it made linger into
Sunday morning. We're still working on totals, Mandy, but you
may have to grab the shovel in a few places.
Ah boo.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Anyway, how about the mountains. I just saw today that
we are now well below the averages for snowpack. What's
going on up there?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
So yes, no question about that. But here's the thing
when it comes to the snowpack in the mountains, and
I'm pretty sure we've covered this. We load the mountains
through April seventh. Anything that we can add to the
mountains after April seventh is a bonus, is a win
to the snowpack to increase those numbers. After April seventh,
(01:36):
we start to get into the melting and the draining
of those of those basins that feed the reservoirs and
the rivers and so forth. So to be seen the
numbers coming down, you're starting to see the influence of
some of that melting. So it's not a surprise to
see those basins, especially southwest southern Colorado, that struggled to
get to eighty eighty five percent never really reached one
(01:58):
hundred percent, not surprising to see them dropping quickly now
down to sixty fifty five percent, and even the northern
Front Range, while the South Platte, which feeds the Front
Range had been running over one hundred percent, looked good,
We're now down to like ninety three percent. Wow, So
you're starting to see the influence of those numbers coming down.
So I don't pay attention as much to the snowpack.
What we have is what we have. If we can
(02:18):
load another six or ten inches, great, it's a bonus.
And I do think we're going to do that in
the next few days, because while we'll be dealing with
several inches down here, I can see some six and
ten inch totals in the central and northern Mountains. And
right now there are no highlights for travel impacts, but
I guarantee you those will be hoisted by the National
Weather Service in the coming twenty four to thirty six hours.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
So what am I looking at for my trip to
winter Park this weekend? We're broadcasting from the Children's Hospitals,
Mighty Million, Raffle House, Ross and I both are on Friday.
So are we going to get caught in snow up
there this weekend?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
You definitely are, no question about it. Thursday, it starts
off as rain, it'll be a range snow mixing. The
mountains should change over to snow pretty quickly with sunset
in the mountains. I don't know that your roads will
be terrible Thursday evening, but if you're planning on going
up Friday, you could run into some issues on the roads. Now.
The good thing about April snow is even at higher elevations,
is the sun angle is higher and it has more
(03:12):
influence on helping to keep the roads a little more
fawd if you will. But you're always going to run
into You're always going to run into convective snow showers
at this time the year, which can have a heavier
burst of snow, and you can run into quick patches
of slushy, sloppy conditions. And certainly if you're uphie you've
got to go over Burstat Pass, you go over Birtha Pass.
It could be a little bit of a challenge. So
I would say, if you guys are heading up there,
(03:34):
give yourself some extra time and then it will continue
to snow Friday. I think the biggest impact on the
roads both there and potentially down here, will be when
the sunsets Friday night into Saturday morning. I think that's
when we'll have a better chance of accumulating snow. So
if you're going up during the day and you want
to get out of that, I get going before sunset
on Friday evening.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Now, I just heard from our Fox thirty one weather
forecast in our news here that tomorrow we're going to
have a red flag day, and it got me thinking,
do we have We always had red flag days like
this early in the season. I always feel like that
has traditionally come later in the summer, and it feels
like we're having them sort of outside that traditional window
or am I just misremembering things?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Now we can get them. Your thought process is correct,
and that you think more of that when we get
into the heat of the summer and the dry days,
and certainly into the fall when you know we're in
that dry patch before winter kicks in. But talk to
any firefighter across the state, with our expanding population and growth,
the fact that we have you know dry periods. Really,
(04:37):
fire weather season is all year long. So if you
think about when the Marshall fire hit, that was a
rest this morning day. Obviously from the roaring winds, we
had had a prolonged dry period. That was a period
where we didn't get snow until very late in the season,
and here early in the season you can get them
because we just haven't had a lot of moisture. March
was kind of stingy. Right now, April we're running about
(04:59):
a half an inch behind, which, by the way, I've
been saying this on the air and I will continue
to do it if there is a silver lining. While
you may be annoyed with the fact that it's going
to snow Thursday night, all day Friday and too Saturday morning,
it's the moisture content. Though we could get more than
a half an inch, maybe even six cents of an inch.
That may not sound like a lot, it is substantial.
(05:19):
And if your allergies have been kicking up, just wait
until next week. Everything's gonna take off, thinks.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Thanks, that's exactly what I want to hear. Hey, the
allergies which have been killing you for the last six weeks,
or who about to get way, way worse. That's that's
not encouraging. So is this gonna be big, heavy snow?
Is this going to be hard to shove the snow?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, it's gonna be heavy and wet, it'll melt underneath.
If it freezes overnight, you could have that coating in
your garage and drive away the roads. Again, I think
elevations may be above six sixty five hundred, so that
puts the foothills to the west, some communities obviously on
the south side of town. You know, we could be
looking at We're gonna work on the details of totals.
I'm thinking right now two to four, two to five,
(06:02):
there could be some six inch totals for the front
range from Fort Coong to the city to the south.
It says you get into the foothills and climb up
in elevation beyond seven thousand feet and higher into the
mountains where I think those totals could be deeper than that.
And yes, as it's typical in March and April, it'll
be the heavy, wet kind of concrete, if you will,
A sh road will weigh a lot, so you got
to be careful, watch your back. I have that problem,
(06:24):
so take it slow. If you're using a snowblower and
you've got four or five inches, it's going to be
like a slushy machine. It's not going to throw it
very far. But again the moisture content is going to
be absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Well, somebody said, I've got a weather question real quick
before we have to take a break here in just
a minute, Mandy, is there an equivalent feels like temperature
table for humidity as there is with wind speed for
wind chill?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
There is? It feels like temperature every single day. You
go to the National Weather Service website and you look
like you go to their homepage and you put in
the upper left hand corner, there's a box and you
can put in a city. It bring up whatever the
censor is closest to where you live, and it will
show you temperature, wind steak, And there's a feels like
right there, calculated every day. So on dry days it'll
be lower, on the humid days it could be a
(07:10):
little higher. It's always there and it's always calculated in
all right.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
And somebody just asked about to see you spring football game.
It's not this weekend, though? Is it this weekend? So
is Ralphie going to be running through the snow and boulder?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I don't, ay Rod, do you know what that game is?
I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Ayron said it was this weekend.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I thought it was this week. I'm not sure if
it is Saturday, yes, Ralph could be running in some snow.
You know what's interesting, and I know you've got to go.
I went to look to see when was the last
time Denver had three inches of snow in April? You
know what it was when the nineteenth and twentieth of
last year we had three point three on the nineteenth
and three on the twentieth, six point three inches. Guess
(07:50):
what we got Friday and Saturday, Lee, two to six
inches of snow? All right?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Are repeat?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Imagine that?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
But you know what, Davis, they always say in Colorado,
we need the moist chair.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
You're going to get it, all right, man, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
That's save Frasier from Fox thirty one. You should watch
him and his team. They do a great job. We'll
talk again next week, Dave Hi
Let's jump right to it, because this weekend I have
enjoyed the heck out the last couple of days. Not
gonna lie nice and warm. But we're not done with
winter yet.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
We are not. You know, when we told you April
is Denver's second snowiest month, it should be no surprise
that the chance for snows still exists. You know, I'm
looking at the forecast as I always do before talking
with you, and you know it goes back to the
same conversation we had the last couple of weeks if
things started to green up and people wondering about turning
sprinklers on and is it too early to plant. Well,
(00:30):
I've got three mornings Friday morning, Saturday morning, and Sunday morning,
all with temperatures below freezing twenty eight to twenty eight
to thirty degree. So that is why we always say
don't go too fast into spring. You've got to wait
until Mother's Day before we can guarantee you that those
overnight lows won't be below freezing. So yep, that's what
(00:51):
we're looking at. We got snow starting Thursday after midnight
on and off Friday, and wrapping up maybe a little
later Sunday. Morning. It looks like it made linger into
Sunday morning. We're still working on totals, Mandy, but you
may have to grab the shovel in a few places.
Ah boo.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Anyway, how about the mountains. I just saw today that
we are now well below the averages for snowpack. What's
going on up there?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
So yes, no question about that. But here's the thing
when it comes to the snowpack in the mountains, and
I'm pretty sure we've covered this. We load the mountains
through April seventh. Anything that we can add to the
mountains after April seventh is a bonus, is a win
to the snowpack to increase those numbers. After April seventh,
(01:36):
we start to get into the melting and the draining
of those of those basins that feed the reservoirs and
the rivers and so forth. So to be seen the
numbers coming down, you're starting to see the influence of
some of that melting. So it's not a surprise to
see those basins, especially southwest southern Colorado, that struggled to
get to eighty eighty five percent never really reached one
(01:58):
hundred percent, not surprising to see them dropping quickly now
down to sixty fifty five percent, and even the northern
Front Range, while the South Platte, which feeds the Front
Range had been running over one hundred percent, looked good,
We're now down to like ninety three percent. Wow, So
you're starting to see the influence of those numbers coming down.
So I don't pay attention as much to the snowpack.
What we have is what we have. If we can
(02:18):
load another six or ten inches, great, it's a bonus.
And I do think we're going to do that in
the next few days, because while we'll be dealing with
several inches down here, I can see some six and
ten inch totals in the central and northern Mountains. And
right now there are no highlights for travel impacts, but
I guarantee you those will be hoisted by the National
Weather Service in the coming twenty four to thirty six hours.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
So what am I looking at for my trip to
winter Park this weekend? We're broadcasting from the Children's Hospitals,
Mighty Million, Raffle House, Ross and I both are on Friday.
So are we going to get caught in snow up
there this weekend?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
You definitely are, no question about it. Thursday, it starts
off as rain, it'll be a range snow mixing. The
mountains should change over to snow pretty quickly with sunset
in the mountains. I don't know that your roads will
be terrible Thursday evening, but if you're planning on going
up Friday, you could run into some issues on the roads. Now.
The good thing about April snow is even at higher elevations,
is the sun angle is higher and it has more
(03:12):
influence on helping to keep the roads a little more
fawd if you will. But you're always going to run
into You're always going to run into convective snow showers
at this time the year, which can have a heavier
burst of snow, and you can run into quick patches
of slushy, sloppy conditions. And certainly if you're uphie you've
got to go over Burstat Pass, you go over Birtha Pass.
It could be a little bit of a challenge. So
I would say, if you guys are heading up there,
(03:34):
give yourself some extra time and then it will continue
to snow Friday. I think the biggest impact on the
roads both there and potentially down here, will be when
the sunsets Friday night into Saturday morning. I think that's
when we'll have a better chance of accumulating snow. So
if you're going up during the day and you want
to get out of that, I get going before sunset
on Friday evening.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Now, I just heard from our Fox thirty one weather
forecast in our news here that tomorrow we're going to
have a red flag day, and it got me thinking,
do we have We always had red flag days like
this early in the season. I always feel like that
has traditionally come later in the summer, and it feels
like we're having them sort of outside that traditional window
or am I just misremembering things?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Now we can get them. Your thought process is correct,
and that you think more of that when we get
into the heat of the summer and the dry days,
and certainly into the fall when you know we're in
that dry patch before winter kicks in. But talk to
any firefighter across the state, with our expanding population and growth,
the fact that we have you know dry periods. Really,
(04:37):
fire weather season is all year long. So if you
think about when the Marshall fire hit, that was a
rest this morning day. Obviously from the roaring winds, we
had had a prolonged dry period. That was a period
where we didn't get snow until very late in the season,
and here early in the season you can get them
because we just haven't had a lot of moisture. March
was kind of stingy. Right now, April we're running about
(04:59):
a half an inch behind, which, by the way, I've
been saying this on the air and I will continue
to do it if there is a silver lining. While
you may be annoyed with the fact that it's going
to snow Thursday night, all day Friday and too Saturday morning,
it's the moisture content. Though we could get more than
a half an inch, maybe even six cents of an inch.
That may not sound like a lot, it is substantial.
(05:19):
And if your allergies have been kicking up, just wait
until next week. Everything's gonna take off, thinks.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Thanks, that's exactly what I want to hear. Hey, the
allergies which have been killing you for the last six weeks,
or who about to get way, way worse. That's that's
not encouraging. So is this gonna be big, heavy snow?
Is this going to be hard to shove the snow?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, it's gonna be heavy and wet, it'll melt underneath.
If it freezes overnight, you could have that coating in
your garage and drive away the roads. Again, I think
elevations may be above six sixty five hundred, so that
puts the foothills to the west, some communities obviously on
the south side of town. You know, we could be
looking at We're gonna work on the details of totals.
I'm thinking right now two to four, two to five,
(06:02):
there could be some six inch totals for the front
range from Fort Coong to the city to the south.
It says you get into the foothills and climb up
in elevation beyond seven thousand feet and higher into the
mountains where I think those totals could be deeper than that.
And yes, as it's typical in March and April, it'll
be the heavy, wet kind of concrete, if you will,
A sh road will weigh a lot, so you got
to be careful, watch your back. I have that problem,
(06:24):
so take it slow. If you're using a snowblower and
you've got four or five inches, it's going to be
like a slushy machine. It's not going to throw it
very far. But again the moisture content is going to
be absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Well, somebody said, I've got a weather question real quick
before we have to take a break here in just
a minute, Mandy, is there an equivalent feels like temperature
table for humidity as there is with wind speed for
wind chill?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
There is? It feels like temperature every single day. You
go to the National Weather Service website and you look
like you go to their homepage and you put in
the upper left hand corner, there's a box and you
can put in a city. It bring up whatever the
censor is closest to where you live, and it will
show you temperature, wind steak, And there's a feels like
right there, calculated every day. So on dry days it'll
be lower, on the humid days it could be a
(07:10):
little higher. It's always there and it's always calculated in
all right.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
And somebody just asked about to see you spring football game.
It's not this weekend, though? Is it this weekend? So
is Ralphie going to be running through the snow and boulder?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I don't, ay Rod, do you know what that game is?
I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Ayron said it was this weekend.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I thought it was this week. I'm not sure if
it is Saturday, yes, Ralph could be running in some snow.
You know what's interesting, and I know you've got to go.
I went to look to see when was the last
time Denver had three inches of snow in April? You
know what it was when the nineteenth and twentieth of
last year we had three point three on the nineteenth
and three on the twentieth, six point three inches. Guess
(07:50):
what we got Friday and Saturday, Lee, two to six
inches of snow? All right?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Are repeat?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Imagine that?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
But you know what, Davis, they always say in Colorado,
we need the moist chair.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
You're going to get it, all right, man, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
That's save Frasier from Fox thirty one. You should watch
him and his team. They do a great job. We'll
talk again next week, Dave Hi
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