June 25, 2025 • 8 mins
WEATHER WEDNESDAY IS BACK! Because I'm back! Fox 31s Dave Fraser joins us at 12:30 to let us know what's coming up this week and take your questions.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I am back, and that means our weather guru, Fox
thirty one's Dave Fraser is back as well.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Dave, how you doing.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
There? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Well, yeah, I mean they made me came back after
my fabulous vacation. By the way, the weather in Japan
in June do not recommend zero stars. I cannot cannot
say I enjoyed the weather, but I loved everything else
about the trip. But the weather sucked. It's so hot
and humid and raining like every day. But other than that,
it was great, absolutely great, kind of like what we're
(00:31):
having now.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I was gonna say, so you walk about wasn't a
total loss?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Oh, not at all.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I loved everything except the weather. It was like walking
around in a sauna all day. I felt like I
was trying to cut weight for a wrestling match most
of the days. So you know, what are we doing today?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
What is this? What is this blea outside?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yeah? Richard, repeat from yesterday we expected you know, yesterday
we had the clouds in the morning, they burned off
a little faster. So by this time yesterday, around noon
to one, we were already seeing the sun come out,
and that triggered the thunderstorms which lasted till about six. Today,
our forecast whispered to be delayed by an hour or two,
so we think within the next hour or so you'll
(01:09):
start to see some storms drifting off the foothills, cut
across eye twenty five the east of the airport by five,
and then across the east from plains by seven. Again,
scattered is the key out. Everybody listening in your audience
is going to get rained, but the gloomy skies will
kind of hang with us. You may get peaks of
sunshine and with any thunderstorm, while we don't have a
severe threat like we did yesterday, but any thunderstorm, as
(01:31):
we always say, it can have lightning, wind and hail,
even if the hail's not large enough or the wind
isn't strong enough. So those are the things we'll monitor
from about two to say six o'clock.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Do we have a defined hail season. We were kind
of talking about that a minute ago, and it feels
like obviously we have at the same time of year,
but you know, we have hurricane season from June to November.
Is there a defined hail season when we are more
on alert.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yes, generally around middle to late May till about this
time as we start to get in and the reason
for that is as we get into the spring season
and the storms start to evolve every day, we still
have cold air aloft. In other words, we haven't completely
scoured out the winter season, so the cold air is
(02:16):
kind of looming aloft, and so it's easy for the
thunderstorms to reach up into that cold there and produce
the hail. As we transition a little further into summer,
the atmosphere warms even taller, so the cold air is
very very hard to reach, and so we transition. So
we generally tell people from early May till about oh, say,
the middle of June, you're going to deal with lightning
(02:37):
as always, it's a number one threat to us. There's
going to be tornado threads at times, although the tornado
threads here are very very minimal, thankfully. You're going to
deal with hail, which is usually at its highest. The
most severe stretch we have is about the first ten
to fifteen days of June, which we're now beyond. After
that we start to transition into more of a rainy
season as the monsoons kick in. Generally we'll kick in
(02:59):
there some time in early July and can last into
early August, and then after that storm season kind of
slowly winds down. But that doesn't mean in July or
August you can't get a hell producer if you get
a really good storm. But generally it's this part of
the year and we're winding that down, which is good.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I mean, but you know, and of course I've said
this before. When you arrive over the Colorado border to
become a resident, they hand you a card that says,
if you talk about rain, you must say, but we
need the moisture. So let's talk about that for a moment.
Where are we How did we come through the season?
Are our precipitation totals where they need to be right now?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Or what are we looking at overall?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yeah? No, we're in pretty good shape. I think just
driving around you put your eyeballs on what you're seeing
with natural grasses and sagebrush and all the rest of
the yuckers out there and everybody's yards and stuff. We're
in pretty good shape. May was very good to us.
We have stayed ahead for the month of June, even
though we get a hot, dry stretch there a little
more than a week ago where we connected a bunch
(03:56):
of ninety degree temperatures, especially last weekend when we were
not going to the door at a one hundred. We're
about an inch ahead for the month of June and
about the same for the year. So we're in pretty
good shape. And the timing is always critical, as you
and I have talked about in the past. You know,
you can't get a bunch of rain in one month
and then put it in a ziplock down for the
next month when it turns dry, right, So you get it.
(04:17):
It's a statistical thing, you know. But I really think
we're in good shape, and if we can start to
transition into the monsoons, we'll keep everything looking green. And
the outlook for July as the outlook for June and
as the outlook for maywards. The long range outlooks continue
to show warm and dry, but that has not been
the case of the months by far.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
So the rest of the country. Yeah, the rest of
the country is broiling right now. So what is our
media out like in terms of temperature. Are we seeing
any of those potential roasting temperatures coming back?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
No? As of right now. For the next ten days,
we're in pretty good shape. Because of the chance of
storms and the higher humidity. We only have two days
in the next ten days where we will be the
low nineties. The reach records, you'd have to be in
the triple digits. Our average right now is eighty seven degrees,
and so we'll be flirting with that, maybe a few
degrees below that. And so we have a chance for
(05:11):
storms today. As I talked about, we'll go dry Thursday
in seasonal upper eighties. We'll hit the low nineties Friday, Saturday,
Sunday back down into the eighties as the chances for
rain come back. And then every single day next week
has at least a thirty or forty percent chance of
afternoon scattered storms. And that keeps temperatures down because when
you're dealing with higher humidity, the air can't warm as
(05:32):
fast as it does dry air. Dry air warms faster
than the air that has humidity in it. And unfortunately,
I'll just put it out there right now because I
won't talk to you till next Wednesday. I did do
the July fourth holiday, and it does look stargy.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Oh, it looks soggy.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Okay, Well, you know what, though, here's the thing chance
of storms in Colorado. I'd rather have a soggy Fourth
of July than a dried out Chrispy. We're going to
set everything on fire fourth of July, right right? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (05:58):
This person, you know, I asked you about hails and
this person sent this in not true. We had a
major hailstorm a few years ago on July tenth, nineteen ninety.
We're not saying hail can't happen outside that window. This
is just predominantly when we are most at risk for
getting a hailstorm. So it's it's like, I mean, you
could have a hurricane in May, you don't need to
wait until June. And this is just kind of our
(06:20):
defined season. That's that's what I was asking about. I
have a weather Wednesday question from a listener day for you.
Please ask Dave Frasier when National Weather Service alerts interrupt
a radio broadcast, So this is the EAS system. Who
is the voice in the announcements or is it an
artificial voice generated from a type script?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Why does the voice always sound muffled? I mean, do
you want to answer that?
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I don't know the answer to you. Oh, I do
a voice, but it's it's not great. I will tell you.
In today's AI community.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Yeah, it's computer generated, and it's old school computer generated,
but I would not Yeah, I would not expect that
to be updated any time in the near future because
it's kind of one of those the thought of having
to replace every single EAS receiver is pretty cumbersome. So
it'll stay that way. And it does get your attention
(07:12):
because it's so bad, I guess.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
And it's a little antiquated too in that you're talking about.
Like you mentioned the technology and the audio is not great.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
What's also problematic for us as broadcasters is, of course,
everybody pays attention to their phones. These days, you can
set it to alert you even if you're away from home,
which is a fantastic tool. But one of the frustrations
we have as broadcasters is generally, if there's something going
on that the public needs to know about, we are
on the air right the EAS. So if you're a
provider for television, is a cable or a satellite provider,
(07:45):
the eaes COEs over the top of us. So you're
looking at me on TV, you can't hear me, and
you're hearing this annoying voice on top. Yet I'm standing
there trying to tell you the information in more detail
which specific graphics and the EES cuts us.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Out and that does the same for us as well.
All right, Dave Frasier. Well, we'll see.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
You next week after our soggy potential week and we
will chat again about whether thank you for making time
for us today as you always do.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
And hey, listen, I'll fine tune that fourth of July
forecast on the weekend next to Wednesday, just in time.
And it's good to have you back.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
All right, my friends, it is good to be back.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
We will talk to you next week at that, my friends,
is Dave Fraser
I am back, and that means our weather guru, Fox
thirty one's Dave Fraser is back as well.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Dave, how you doing.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
There? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Well, yeah, I mean they made me came back after
my fabulous vacation. By the way, the weather in Japan
in June do not recommend zero stars. I cannot cannot
say I enjoyed the weather, but I loved everything else
about the trip. But the weather sucked. It's so hot
and humid and raining like every day. But other than that,
it was great, absolutely great, kind of like what we're
(00:31):
having now.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I was gonna say, so you walk about wasn't a
total loss?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Oh, not at all.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I loved everything except the weather. It was like walking
around in a sauna all day. I felt like I
was trying to cut weight for a wrestling match most
of the days. So you know, what are we doing today?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
What is this? What is this blea outside?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yeah? Richard, repeat from yesterday we expected you know, yesterday
we had the clouds in the morning, they burned off
a little faster. So by this time yesterday, around noon
to one, we were already seeing the sun come out,
and that triggered the thunderstorms which lasted till about six. Today,
our forecast whispered to be delayed by an hour or two,
so we think within the next hour or so you'll
(01:09):
start to see some storms drifting off the foothills, cut
across eye twenty five the east of the airport by five,
and then across the east from plains by seven. Again,
scattered is the key out. Everybody listening in your audience
is going to get rained, but the gloomy skies will
kind of hang with us. You may get peaks of
sunshine and with any thunderstorm, while we don't have a
severe threat like we did yesterday, but any thunderstorm, as
(01:31):
we always say, it can have lightning, wind and hail,
even if the hail's not large enough or the wind
isn't strong enough. So those are the things we'll monitor
from about two to say six o'clock.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Do we have a defined hail season. We were kind
of talking about that a minute ago, and it feels
like obviously we have at the same time of year,
but you know, we have hurricane season from June to November.
Is there a defined hail season when we are more
on alert.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yes, generally around middle to late May till about this
time as we start to get in and the reason
for that is as we get into the spring season
and the storms start to evolve every day, we still
have cold air aloft. In other words, we haven't completely
scoured out the winter season, so the cold air is
(02:16):
kind of looming aloft, and so it's easy for the
thunderstorms to reach up into that cold there and produce
the hail. As we transition a little further into summer,
the atmosphere warms even taller, so the cold air is
very very hard to reach, and so we transition. So
we generally tell people from early May till about oh, say,
the middle of June, you're going to deal with lightning
(02:37):
as always, it's a number one threat to us. There's
going to be tornado threads at times, although the tornado
threads here are very very minimal, thankfully. You're going to
deal with hail, which is usually at its highest. The
most severe stretch we have is about the first ten
to fifteen days of June, which we're now beyond. After
that we start to transition into more of a rainy
season as the monsoons kick in. Generally we'll kick in
(02:59):
there some time in early July and can last into
early August, and then after that storm season kind of
slowly winds down. But that doesn't mean in July or
August you can't get a hell producer if you get
a really good storm. But generally it's this part of
the year and we're winding that down, which is good.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I mean, but you know, and of course I've said
this before. When you arrive over the Colorado border to
become a resident, they hand you a card that says,
if you talk about rain, you must say, but we
need the moisture. So let's talk about that for a moment.
Where are we How did we come through the season?
Are our precipitation totals where they need to be right now?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Or what are we looking at overall?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yeah? No, we're in pretty good shape. I think just
driving around you put your eyeballs on what you're seeing
with natural grasses and sagebrush and all the rest of
the yuckers out there and everybody's yards and stuff. We're
in pretty good shape. May was very good to us.
We have stayed ahead for the month of June, even
though we get a hot, dry stretch there a little
more than a week ago where we connected a bunch
(03:56):
of ninety degree temperatures, especially last weekend when we were
not going to the door at a one hundred. We're
about an inch ahead for the month of June and
about the same for the year. So we're in pretty
good shape. And the timing is always critical, as you
and I have talked about in the past. You know,
you can't get a bunch of rain in one month
and then put it in a ziplock down for the
next month when it turns dry, right, So you get it.
(04:17):
It's a statistical thing, you know. But I really think
we're in good shape, and if we can start to
transition into the monsoons, we'll keep everything looking green. And
the outlook for July as the outlook for June and
as the outlook for maywards. The long range outlooks continue
to show warm and dry, but that has not been
the case of the months by far.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
So the rest of the country. Yeah, the rest of
the country is broiling right now. So what is our
media out like in terms of temperature. Are we seeing
any of those potential roasting temperatures coming back?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
No? As of right now. For the next ten days,
we're in pretty good shape. Because of the chance of
storms and the higher humidity. We only have two days
in the next ten days where we will be the
low nineties. The reach records, you'd have to be in
the triple digits. Our average right now is eighty seven degrees,
and so we'll be flirting with that, maybe a few
degrees below that. And so we have a chance for
(05:11):
storms today. As I talked about, we'll go dry Thursday
in seasonal upper eighties. We'll hit the low nineties Friday, Saturday,
Sunday back down into the eighties as the chances for
rain come back. And then every single day next week
has at least a thirty or forty percent chance of
afternoon scattered storms. And that keeps temperatures down because when
you're dealing with higher humidity, the air can't warm as
(05:32):
fast as it does dry air. Dry air warms faster
than the air that has humidity in it. And unfortunately,
I'll just put it out there right now because I
won't talk to you till next Wednesday. I did do
the July fourth holiday, and it does look stargy.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Oh, it looks soggy.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Okay, Well, you know what, though, here's the thing chance
of storms in Colorado. I'd rather have a soggy Fourth
of July than a dried out Chrispy. We're going to
set everything on fire fourth of July, right right? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (05:58):
This person, you know, I asked you about hails and
this person sent this in not true. We had a
major hailstorm a few years ago on July tenth, nineteen ninety.
We're not saying hail can't happen outside that window. This
is just predominantly when we are most at risk for
getting a hailstorm. So it's it's like, I mean, you
could have a hurricane in May, you don't need to
wait until June. And this is just kind of our
(06:20):
defined season. That's that's what I was asking about. I
have a weather Wednesday question from a listener day for you.
Please ask Dave Frasier when National Weather Service alerts interrupt
a radio broadcast, So this is the EAS system. Who
is the voice in the announcements or is it an
artificial voice generated from a type script?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Why does the voice always sound muffled? I mean, do
you want to answer that?
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I don't know the answer to you. Oh, I do
a voice, but it's it's not great. I will tell you.
In today's AI community.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Yeah, it's computer generated, and it's old school computer generated,
but I would not Yeah, I would not expect that
to be updated any time in the near future because
it's kind of one of those the thought of having
to replace every single EAS receiver is pretty cumbersome. So
it'll stay that way. And it does get your attention
(07:12):
because it's so bad, I guess.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
And it's a little antiquated too in that you're talking about.
Like you mentioned the technology and the audio is not great.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
What's also problematic for us as broadcasters is, of course,
everybody pays attention to their phones. These days, you can
set it to alert you even if you're away from home,
which is a fantastic tool. But one of the frustrations
we have as broadcasters is generally, if there's something going
on that the public needs to know about, we are
on the air right the EAS. So if you're a
provider for television, is a cable or a satellite provider,
(07:45):
the eaes COEs over the top of us. So you're
looking at me on TV, you can't hear me, and
you're hearing this annoying voice on top. Yet I'm standing
there trying to tell you the information in more detail
which specific graphics and the EES cuts us.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Out and that does the same for us as well.
All right, Dave Frasier. Well, we'll see.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
You next week after our soggy potential week and we
will chat again about whether thank you for making time
for us today as you always do.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
And hey, listen, I'll fine tune that fourth of July
forecast on the weekend next to Wednesday, just in time.
And it's good to have you back.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
All right, my friends, it is good to be back.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
We will talk to you next week at that, my friends,
is Dave Fraser
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