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(00:00):
Dave Fraser from Fox thirty one.Hello, Dave, what the heck with
the wind today? Yeah? Iheard you with Nayrod talking about that this
morning, so yeah, we haveYou know, sometimes you get mixing in
the morning, so as the sunis coming not the air is kind of
warming and so you can get somemixing and depending on where you are that
we can get a little gusty asthings mix out. Plus, we have
(00:20):
this incoming storm system from the northand west, and so sometimes you can
get these little jet streaks to kindof zip down and it can kick up
the wind for brief period, butas the temperatures warm up, the wind
generally latches. And that's where weare right now. So I actually got
a question from one of my listenersabout wind, So I'm gonna go ahead
and throw that in now. Bartasks, will you please ask Dave When
he shows the wind map, sometimesthere's an area where the wind arrows are
(00:44):
coming from all directions and converge atone point. My question is where does
the air go when this happens?Is there no wind speed at convergence?
An example was shown this morning onthe Future cast for Wednesday, starting about
three point thirty PM. Near Cfour seventy and Wadsworth, So I know
what he's talking about. It seemslike if you're in the middle of that,
you're screwed. But what happens,Yeah, So it's convergence, And
(01:08):
we talk about this all the time. Anytime you have wind that comes together,
whether it's around an area of lowpressure or whether it's with an incoming
coal front like we have coming thisafternoon, where the wind ahead of the
cold front will be from the southsoutheast, and behind the cold front the
wind will turn to the north andwest. So anytime you have colliding different
directions of wind, the air hasno chance but to go up. It
(01:30):
can't go down, obviously, it'snot going to penetrate the ground, So
that lifting and that forcing. Anytimeyou can lift air, whether it's on
a large scale because of a hugestorm or if any't even smaller micro climate
kind of wind shifts, you canget lifting. And anytime you have lifting,
if you have the right ingredients alittle heat and a little moisture and
(01:51):
maybe cold they're aloft, you cangenerate rain and snow. So lifting always
equates to building of clouds and canbe followed by rain or snow if the
ingredients are there, and so thoseare things we watch it because of our
very terrain. Those shifts in wind, if they're going up like the Palmer
Divide up the face of the foothills, you're adding even more lift. We
(02:13):
call that ore graphic lift. Soanytime you can lift the atmosphere from whatever
it is, one front, coalfront, incoming storm, swirling winds,
topography, you're going to get sometype of precipitation. All right, ayerd
has a question for you, Dave, Yes, Dave, as we have
entered May I think we've officially enteredsprinkler activation. Watch. Are we still
(02:35):
looking about two weeks out around Mother'sDay or a little bit sooner, a
little bit later. I got itthis weekend. Yeah, and some people
have. And you can thank thesoggy month of April for that. We
more than double the amount of moisturein the month of April, and the
timing of that as we are comingout of winter and getting into the spring
and growing season was perfect. Weended up with the eighteenth wettest April on
(03:00):
record for Denver. And you canthank those weekends that you call blah yucker
with you call them left couple ofweekends, that moisture is fantastic. You
know, Hey, Rod, Iwill tell you this. I get hammered
with this question late April, andI even have coworkers who work who hammerd
me with Is that the last?No? Is that the last? Now?
And I generally use Mother's Day asthe thumbs up. And I've said
(03:22):
this time and time again. Ifyou are proficient at draining your outside overflow
pipe, the pipe that comes upout of the ground goes in the side
of your house to your sprinkles system. If you're comfortable draining that, should
we get a couple of nights withcold overnight lows, then you can turn
on your sprinklers. But I'm gonnatell you we have had so much moisture.
(03:42):
Save yourself a couple of bucks.I don't think you need to start
watering yet unless you have something inthe yard that, for instance, you
put down seed, or you've gotsome new landscaping or a tree or something.
You know, yeah, you canhandwater that or maybe turn on the
sprinklers for brief periods. Just beconscious that Mother's Day is generally threshold.
I got this one. I thinkI know the answer to this one,
but I'm gonna ask it anyway,Dave, what do you call those little
(04:05):
styrofoam like balls that seem half sleetand half snow. Is that groppel gropol?
Yeah? Definitely by definition, youknow it fleint is more ice,
hail is solid ice, and obviouslylarger. They form in different ways in
the atmosphere. But yeah, thosespongy little snowballs that they look like they
(04:27):
come down at times they look likehere, but if you pick them up,
they are literally spongy. You cansqueeze and wear asleep and freezing drizzle
and hail. They form in differentways. But yeah, the groppel that
you can get sometimes when we're dealingwith, you know, an incoming snowstorm
and it just hasn't gotten cold enoughyet. It's always fun to see that
kind of stuff hitting the ground andcovering the ground. How much rain are
we going to get out of thissnow? Uh? This storm is it?
(04:49):
Is it really going to be justkind of widespread here and there?
Yeah, it's very It's very widespread, very scattered in nature. We don't
have a lot of moisture coming inthe next few days. I've got a
chance for storms this afternoon at abouta thirty to forty percent chance coming up
and down the front range. Ithink it's a little better chance for scattered
showers and thunderstorms as you go pastthe airport onto the eastern plane. Some
(05:13):
of those out there may produce somehell. But we don't have a setup
for severe weather. You can neverrule out one or two road storms getting
a little larger, a little stronger, and we'll monitor that and be on
the air tonight keeping an eye onthings. But you've got to get into
the Midwest and down towards Oklahoma andTexas for the severe weather thread. But
there will be scattered storms today.Thursday's chances low. Friday's chance is a
little higher, twenty to thirty percent. Saturday is only a ten percent.
(05:35):
So this weekend I heard you askabout the WEE can actually look decent.
Other than a ten percent chance ofa spotty shower on Saturday, we should
be near seventy and we could beclose to eighty with sunshine on Sunday.
One of my listeners also asked ifyou could add a BLAE warning to your
newscast, that would be like thisweekend just gonna be bled. Last weekend
was bled. It was. Itwas although Dave I forgot. I did
(05:57):
use my weed torch and I gotvideo, but I forgot to have Chuck
send it to me, so hetook the video. So I used my
way towards and it worked like achamp. It was fantastic. I have
no weeds in the bed where Ihad weeds. Now I just need to
get a bunch of new rocks andthrow them in there. Amazing. I
definitely want to see that. Ihaven't gotten my week killer yet and I've
got them popping up in the inthe cracks and the joints in the in
(06:18):
the driveway, so I got toget rid of those. And yeah,
the block alert. You know,it's so funny. I'm going to just
tell you a cook story because Iknow the time is. Say, I
got a voicemail a week ago,and I've had these over the years where
somebody called in and we were sayingthat, you know, we were using
adjectives to describe this soggy situation.Dreary was a word that was used,
and if you will, called itin and said, you know, you
(06:39):
guys really shouldn't be given your opinionof the weather because some of us like
a gray day. And I alwaystell people weather is perceived. So what
one person thinks is warm, anotherperson thinks is too cool. Some people
do like a gray, rainy day, others like no, you know,
no rain insight. And so Ialways giggle when I get those voicemails and
(06:59):
emails from even like damned if youdo. Damn yeah, Because whether it's
perceived, whether you like it ornot, it is what it is.
And so I chuckle when I hearpeople describe the weather as dreary, ugly,
nasty blab. Yeah. Well,I've got one more question. This
is a highly specific question for you, okay, So as Dave if he
knew of the Freeze Notice Weather Centerin Iowa in the seventies. I've heard
(07:23):
Dave worked whether Ina in Des Moinesat one point that weather center was run
by Harvey Freeze and Charlie. Notice, if I remember right, do you
are you familiar with the Freeze NoticeWeather Center. No, I'm not.
That's I'll have to actually google thatand see what the history of it is.
It sounds did he say the seventies? Yeah, yeah, and it's
(07:45):
freeze as in freeze and notice asinn otis so if you want to look
that up. So yeah, I'lllook it up. It's interesting. I
mean, the seventies would have beenbefore my time there. I don't know
that that was probably still in playwhen I was in Des Moines and in
the Midwest. So I'll look itup. Sounds curious, sounds interesting.
I'm curious to see what it is. Sounds like a marketing tool to me.
(08:05):
But if it got some type ofa weather notification out, good for
Iowa. All right, my friend, we will talk to you next week.
Uh so that's say Fraser, everybody. We'll get weather Wednesday coming up
next week. Dave, I'll talkto you soon. Man, Hi,
thank you too,
Dave Fraser from Fox thirty one.Hello, Dave, what the heck with
the wind today? Yeah? Iheard you with Nayrod talking about that this
morning, so yeah, we haveYou know, sometimes you get mixing in
the morning, so as the sunis coming not the air is kind of
warming and so you can get somemixing and depending on where you are that
we can get a little gusty asthings mix out. Plus, we have
(00:20):
this incoming storm system from the northand west, and so sometimes you can
get these little jet streaks to kindof zip down and it can kick up
the wind for brief period, butas the temperatures warm up, the wind
generally latches. And that's where weare right now. So I actually got
a question from one of my listenersabout wind, So I'm gonna go ahead
and throw that in now. Bartasks, will you please ask Dave When
he shows the wind map, sometimesthere's an area where the wind arrows are
(00:44):
coming from all directions and converge atone point. My question is where does
the air go when this happens?Is there no wind speed at convergence?
An example was shown this morning onthe Future cast for Wednesday, starting about
three point thirty PM. Near Cfour seventy and Wadsworth, So I know
what he's talking about. It seemslike if you're in the middle of that,
you're screwed. But what happens,Yeah, So it's convergence, And
(01:08):
we talk about this all the time. Anytime you have wind that comes together,
whether it's around an area of lowpressure or whether it's with an incoming
coal front like we have coming thisafternoon, where the wind ahead of the
cold front will be from the southsoutheast, and behind the cold front the
wind will turn to the north andwest. So anytime you have colliding different
directions of wind, the air hasno chance but to go up. It
(01:30):
can't go down, obviously, it'snot going to penetrate the ground, So
that lifting and that forcing. Anytimeyou can lift air, whether it's on
a large scale because of a hugestorm or if any't even smaller micro climate
kind of wind shifts, you canget lifting. And anytime you have lifting,
if you have the right ingredients alittle heat and a little moisture and
(01:51):
maybe cold they're aloft, you cangenerate rain and snow. So lifting always
equates to building of clouds and canbe followed by rain or snow if the
ingredients are there, and so thoseare things we watch it because of our
very terrain. Those shifts in wind, if they're going up like the Palmer
Divide up the face of the foothills, you're adding even more lift. We
(02:13):
call that ore graphic lift. Soanytime you can lift the atmosphere from whatever
it is, one front, coalfront, incoming storm, swirling winds,
topography, you're going to get sometype of precipitation. All right, ayerd
has a question for you, Dave, Yes, Dave, as we have
entered May I think we've officially enteredsprinkler activation. Watch. Are we still
(02:35):
looking about two weeks out around Mother'sDay or a little bit sooner, a
little bit later. I got itthis weekend. Yeah, and some people
have. And you can thank thesoggy month of April for that. We
more than double the amount of moisturein the month of April, and the
timing of that as we are comingout of winter and getting into the spring
and growing season was perfect. Weended up with the eighteenth wettest April on
(03:00):
record for Denver. And you canthank those weekends that you call blah yucker
with you call them left couple ofweekends, that moisture is fantastic. You
know, Hey, Rod, Iwill tell you this. I get hammered
with this question late April, andI even have coworkers who work who hammerd
me with Is that the last?No? Is that the last? Now?
And I generally use Mother's Day asthe thumbs up. And I've said
(03:22):
this time and time again. Ifyou are proficient at draining your outside overflow
pipe, the pipe that comes upout of the ground goes in the side
of your house to your sprinkles system. If you're comfortable draining that, should
we get a couple of nights withcold overnight lows, then you can turn
on your sprinklers. But I'm gonnatell you we have had so much moisture.
(03:42):
Save yourself a couple of bucks.I don't think you need to start
watering yet unless you have something inthe yard that, for instance, you
put down seed, or you've gotsome new landscaping or a tree or something.
You know, yeah, you canhandwater that or maybe turn on the
sprinklers for brief periods. Just beconscious that Mother's Day is generally threshold.
I got this one. I thinkI know the answer to this one,
but I'm gonna ask it anyway,Dave, what do you call those little
(04:05):
styrofoam like balls that seem half sleetand half snow. Is that groppel gropol?
Yeah? Definitely by definition, youknow it fleint is more ice,
hail is solid ice, and obviouslylarger. They form in different ways in
the atmosphere. But yeah, thosespongy little snowballs that they look like they
(04:27):
come down at times they look likehere, but if you pick them up,
they are literally spongy. You cansqueeze and wear asleep and freezing drizzle
and hail. They form in differentways. But yeah, the groppel that
you can get sometimes when we're dealingwith, you know, an incoming snowstorm
and it just hasn't gotten cold enoughyet. It's always fun to see that
kind of stuff hitting the ground andcovering the ground. How much rain are
we going to get out of thissnow? Uh? This storm is it?
(04:49):
Is it really going to be justkind of widespread here and there?
Yeah, it's very It's very widespread, very scattered in nature. We don't
have a lot of moisture coming inthe next few days. I've got a
chance for storms this afternoon at abouta thirty to forty percent chance coming up
and down the front range. Ithink it's a little better chance for scattered
showers and thunderstorms as you go pastthe airport onto the eastern plane. Some
(05:13):
of those out there may produce somehell. But we don't have a setup
for severe weather. You can neverrule out one or two road storms getting
a little larger, a little stronger, and we'll monitor that and be on
the air tonight keeping an eye onthings. But you've got to get into
the Midwest and down towards Oklahoma andTexas for the severe weather thread. But
there will be scattered storms today.Thursday's chances low. Friday's chance is a
little higher, twenty to thirty percent. Saturday is only a ten percent.
(05:35):
So this weekend I heard you askabout the WEE can actually look decent.
Other than a ten percent chance ofa spotty shower on Saturday, we should
be near seventy and we could beclose to eighty with sunshine on Sunday.
One of my listeners also asked ifyou could add a BLAE warning to your
newscast, that would be like thisweekend just gonna be bled. Last weekend
was bled. It was. Itwas although Dave I forgot. I did
(05:57):
use my weed torch and I gotvideo, but I forgot to have Chuck
send it to me, so hetook the video. So I used my
way towards and it worked like achamp. It was fantastic. I have
no weeds in the bed where Ihad weeds. Now I just need to
get a bunch of new rocks andthrow them in there. Amazing. I
definitely want to see that. Ihaven't gotten my week killer yet and I've
got them popping up in the inthe cracks and the joints in the in
(06:18):
the driveway, so I got toget rid of those. And yeah,
the block alert. You know,it's so funny. I'm going to just
tell you a cook story because Iknow the time is. Say, I
got a voicemail a week ago,and I've had these over the years where
somebody called in and we were sayingthat, you know, we were using
adjectives to describe this soggy situation.Dreary was a word that was used,
and if you will, called itin and said, you know, you
(06:39):
guys really shouldn't be given your opinionof the weather because some of us like
a gray day. And I alwaystell people weather is perceived. So what
one person thinks is warm, anotherperson thinks is too cool. Some people
do like a gray, rainy day, others like no, you know,
no rain insight. And so Ialways giggle when I get those voicemails and
(06:59):
emails from even like damned if youdo. Damn yeah, Because whether it's
perceived, whether you like it ornot, it is what it is.
And so I chuckle when I hearpeople describe the weather as dreary, ugly,
nasty blab. Yeah. Well,I've got one more question. This
is a highly specific question for you, okay, So as Dave if he
knew of the Freeze Notice Weather Centerin Iowa in the seventies. I've heard
(07:23):
Dave worked whether Ina in Des Moinesat one point that weather center was run
by Harvey Freeze and Charlie. Notice, if I remember right, do you
are you familiar with the Freeze NoticeWeather Center. No, I'm not.
That's I'll have to actually google thatand see what the history of it is.
It sounds did he say the seventies? Yeah, yeah, and it's
(07:45):
freeze as in freeze and notice asinn otis so if you want to look
that up. So yeah, I'lllook it up. It's interesting. I
mean, the seventies would have beenbefore my time there. I don't know
that that was probably still in playwhen I was in Des Moines and in
the Midwest. So I'll look itup. Sounds curious, sounds interesting.
I'm curious to see what it is. Sounds like a marketing tool to me.
(08:05):
But if it got some type ofa weather notification out, good for
Iowa. All right, my friend, we will talk to you next week.
Uh so that's say Fraser, everybody. We'll get weather Wednesday coming up
next week. Dave, I'll talkto you soon. Man, Hi,
thank you too,
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