July 2, 2025 • 10 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The best meteorologist I know, well, at least the one
on the phone with me right now. I do know
more than one meteorologist. And as I said that, I
was like, oh my gosh, what if they hear me
and I hurt their feelings.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
But you're my favorite day. I'll say it. Bye.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I'm good. I'm good.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
So everybody wants to know what the weather is going
to be like for the fireworks on Friday, So let's
jump right into that.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
First, shall we.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Yep, I was anticipating that, like we talked about last week.
I just got through with the updating our seven day
forecast and looking into the details for the afternoon in
the evening on Friday the fourth. And it's not bad news.
It's not dry, but it is a low chance for
scattered thunderstorms. And I have to underscore the words scattered.
There's been scattered storms the last few days here and there.
(00:49):
There's many people who could probably listening to you right
now say I haven't seen the drop of rain, and
that's going to be the case on Friday. I think
there's storms tomorrow. Thursday come up a little later, normally
we say two to six tomorrow. I think we may
have to wait till four to seven to see a
few scavenge songs, and then on Friday. I think it
is a traditional two to six in the front range.
(01:09):
So think from Cheyenne, Wyoming all the way to say
Castle Rock, Monument Hill in Colorado Springs. They'll come off
the foothills, they'll dot the landscape. They may have dusty winds,
they'll have some lightning, you might get some rain out
of them. Sometimes you get more wind than rain at
this time of the year. And then they move east
onto the planes. But even on the planes, it looks
like the timing is they're out of the state by
eight o'clock. So for evening fireworks displays, the professional ones,
(01:33):
the community ones. I think we're looking good. I really do.
But if you have outdoor plans on Friday, you're going
to be near a body of water, or you're out
camping or whatever, you just have to be listening, watching
the skies, and if something heads your away, just give
it a little time and wait about a half an
hour after the last rumble of thunder and go back
to whatever your festivities are.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
For the four of course, you can always download the
pinfoint weather app that will give you lightning wars that
they're in your area too.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
That's the easiest way to do that.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I want to ask you something Aeron And we're talking
about this in the begin of the show. I was
talking to my personal trainer about this, and she's a
native Colorado and she's, you know, in her sixties and
she's been her entire life, and we were talking about
this summer is a little bit weird for Colorado. And
I'm not saying bad because I love it that things
are not catching on fire, right like, I'm enjoying the
heck out of that. But we've had a very it's
(02:19):
been humid, you know, we've had regular rainstorms and thunderstorms
and things like that. Is this a strange weather pattern
for us? Am I misreading this?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
And no? Actually I think what it is is it's
the short term memory of the last couple of maybe
three to five summers of blazing heat and fire concerns.
This actually made was very good to us. As you know,
we were above normal for precipitation and the temperatures were
just a little below. June has actually been sevenal I
mean what we experienced in June, we had stretches of
(02:53):
slightly below normal temperatures but nothing cold, and we had
stretches of ninety plus degree heat. We got the ninety
nine a couple of days in a row almost one
hundred degrees. Didn't reach the century mark. But the month
of June actually only ended up zero point eight degrees,
eight tenths of a degree above normal. And it wasn't
the highs it averaged us up that eight tenths of
(03:15):
a degree. It was the morning loaves that pumped us
up just beyond normal, which was kind of interesting. So
even though we had those hot stretches, even though we
had ninety eight, ninety nine, ninety seven degree days, it
was the lows that pumped us just above average, and
from moist we ended up a quarter of an inch ahead.
The most we had was one point three inches. That
was a soggy I'm trying to remember what day it was.
(03:35):
It might have been a Saturday early in the month.
So we're okay, and here we are. You know, last
night we start the month of July. Yesterday we hit
ninety three degrees. That's above average. Average right now is
eighty nine, so it's four degrees above. But we have
a thunderstorm come right up over the airport and it
dumped three a third of an inch. So here we
are the second wettest month, and on the first day
(03:58):
on a month where we get two point one four
inches of rain, we already got a third of an inch.
So that was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
To your point, though not everybody's getting the rain equally.
What's what's fascinating. As I was driving home on Sunday
night from Aurora down into Dougco and it was pouring
in Aurora, I mean pouring, and then by the it's
like I crossed the doug Coot line and nothing nothing,
It all stops and it's like, oh, okay, well it's
not raining here. So if people are not getting the
(04:25):
kind of rain that we're talking about, you're just unlucky,
I guess. But overall, I mean it's been it's been
a net positive. But I don't recall it feels humid.
Is our humidity higher? Am I just having residual humidity
attacks from Japan?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah? No, Actually it's been right where we should be
at this time of the year. We tend to kind
of look out for the start of the monsoons, right,
So you and I you and I've talked here on
your show many many times about the humidity and due
point and how humidity is a percentage of the moisture
in the air, where due point is an actual measurement
of the moisture. Generally, what we look for is due
(05:01):
points that signal the start of the monsoon rains that
are going to be in the mid fifties. Right we've
been going back and forth from the upper forties to
the low fifties. We've had a few days that got
in the upper fifties, and those are the days that
it may have felt more humid and yielded us good rain.
But right now, our due points are just about where
they should be. They're not high enough to be considered monsoon.
(05:23):
They're not really significantly above what we would expect, but
they're high enough that the heating of the day, and
we're getting into the hottest part of the summer here
in July, that we can trigger storms as the landscape
heats up. So it's decent, but I wouldn't call it,
you know, for Colorado. I mean, you know, fifty sixty
percent humidity is like, oh my goodness, yeah, exactly, that's it.
(05:47):
But you've got to go to the Midwest, where like
we look at due points in the mid fifties to
about sixty degrees to be considered Colorado humid. But you
can go into the Midwest and find those same due
points oppressively thick seventies and eighties where you can drink.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I mean when I remember when I first came out here,
right after I got my job, so this would have
been like April May before. No, wait a minute, it
was August. I guess when I started out here. I
can't remember. The days are all jumbled together. So I
go to a baseball game with my boss and his
boss at the time, and.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
We're sitting there.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Now, I'm coming from Louisville, Kentucky, where every day is
a swamp right to your point. Every day it's like
eighty five percent humidity. It's miserable every day. And we're
sitting at coursefield and I'm thinking to myself, this is glorious.
This is the greatest weather I have ever experienced in
an August in my lifetime. And they look at me
and go, God, it's so humid right now, because they're apologizing.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Because it's not normally.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
And it was like forty percent humidity.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Dave and I just laughed. I was like, you've got
to be kidding me. This is glorious.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
So I've got a couple questions from the text line
I want to get in before we ran out of time.
This one is Mandy Sunday evening. We had a thunderstorm
that had constant thunder and lightning rumbling, but the lightning
never appeared to come in contact with the ground.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Please ab Dave explain this.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
It's cloud to cloud lightning, so that that is a
type of the strike that we can get and that
generally happens with what we call nocturnal storms. The storms
are still electric, but they're not as vibrant as they
would be during the day where they have a little
more electricity. And so we call that cloud to cloud
lightning that you see at night, and it is vivid
and it lights up the sky and it can be
continuous in that type of an environment. We also I'll
(07:29):
just briefly touch on you know, people in the Midwest
always refer to a lightning that they can't hear thunder
a heat lightning because you know, it's on a warm,
humid night in the planes and you're looking off in
the distance, you can't hear the thunder, and people refer
to that as heat lighting. There's no such thing as
heat lightning. It's just the thunderstorm that's so far away
you can't hear the thunder. So got as long as
(07:51):
we were talking about lightning.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Here's the possibly most ridiculous, but question I really want
the answer to.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
We've ever gotten?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
How many different suits does Dave have to wear for
all his shows? Does his closet look like Henry Hill
from Goodfellas?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
You know, we rotate, throw, we try and update, and
it's like a typical wardrobe. You know. Here's the funny thing.
I talk with guys that work about this all the time.
You know, women I have to go on TV and
they have to have numerous ouses. Honestly, a guy could
wear a black suit with a white shirt and change
in kigh five days in a row, and I guarantee
you most people won't know it. And there was a
(08:29):
guy in Australia television newscaster in Australia who did that
for an entire year and nobody noticed, of course that
he was wearing the same one. And there's some guys
locally that do the same thing. I mean, Jay Leno
wears the same pair of jean shirt and jean pants.
He's got, like, you know, so many of them. But
it's the same thing every day. And there's a couple
(08:50):
of guys on Nightline on NBC that do the same
watch them. They wear the same attire. It's the same
black eyed white shirt and black suit every single time
they're on.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Well, you know, my little side project, I got this
YouTube show with my friend Debrah Flora, and we are
literally like, oh my god, when can we start repeating outfits?
Because neither of us are what you would call a
clothes horse.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
And you know, I work in radio, Dave.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I mean, I barely wear pants to the office most days,
so it's like wearing clothes that people are gonna see.
That's like a whole new ball game that I'm not
quite sure what to do with.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
So I don't envy that at all.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
For the folks working in TV and having that added
pressure of having to look good.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Too, Yeah, well, and there's seasonal right, certain suits looking
a little better in different seasons than you rotate through.
And then everyhow and then you know, I mean a
couple of years you go out and buy three or
four suits and kind of spice up the wardrobe. I
really think it's the tie that makes the difference, and
I look for ties that are bold but not flashy,
that stand out against a white shirt. I always wear
white shirts. I think white shirts are better than colored
(09:51):
or striped or patterned shirts. I think the tie pops
on a white shirt. I always wear white shirts, and
I look for ties that can cross over different color suits.
You know, the color stands out with a black suit,
but can also stand out with a gray suit, and
so you can get multiple uses out of ties with
different setups.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Dave gets my fashion. Dab Frazier gets it. Baby, he knows.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Dave knows what's up, and you can see and judge
his fashion accordingly. Uh as he gives you the most
accurate forecast on Fox thirty one. Dave Frazer, good to
talk to you, my friend. I'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Happy fourteen. Hey, hey Rod, everybody over at iHeart and
to all of your listeners and our viewers. Everybody have
a safe holiday.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Hey you too, my friend. We'll talk to you next week.
The best meteorologist I know, well, at least the one
on the phone with me right now. I do know
more than one meteorologist. And as I said that, I
was like, oh my gosh, what if they hear me
and I hurt their feelings.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
But you're my favorite day. I'll say it. Bye.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I'm good. I'm good.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
So everybody wants to know what the weather is going
to be like for the fireworks on Friday, So let's
jump right into that.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
First, shall we.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Yep, I was anticipating that, like we talked about last week.
I just got through with the updating our seven day
forecast and looking into the details for the afternoon in
the evening on Friday the fourth. And it's not bad news.
It's not dry, but it is a low chance for
scattered thunderstorms. And I have to underscore the words scattered.
There's been scattered storms the last few days here and there.
(00:49):
There's many people who could probably listening to you right
now say I haven't seen the drop of rain, and
that's going to be the case on Friday. I think
there's storms tomorrow. Thursday come up a little later, normally
we say two to six tomorrow. I think we may
have to wait till four to seven to see a
few scavenge songs, and then on Friday. I think it
is a traditional two to six in the front range.
(01:09):
So think from Cheyenne, Wyoming all the way to say
Castle Rock, Monument Hill in Colorado Springs. They'll come off
the foothills, they'll dot the landscape. They may have dusty winds,
they'll have some lightning, you might get some rain out
of them. Sometimes you get more wind than rain at
this time of the year. And then they move east
onto the planes. But even on the planes, it looks
like the timing is they're out of the state by
eight o'clock. So for evening fireworks displays, the professional ones,
(01:33):
the community ones. I think we're looking good. I really do.
But if you have outdoor plans on Friday, you're going
to be near a body of water, or you're out
camping or whatever, you just have to be listening, watching
the skies, and if something heads your away, just give
it a little time and wait about a half an
hour after the last rumble of thunder and go back
to whatever your festivities are.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
For the four of course, you can always download the
pinfoint weather app that will give you lightning wars that
they're in your area too.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
That's the easiest way to do that.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I want to ask you something Aeron And we're talking
about this in the begin of the show. I was
talking to my personal trainer about this, and she's a
native Colorado and she's, you know, in her sixties and
she's been her entire life, and we were talking about
this summer is a little bit weird for Colorado. And
I'm not saying bad because I love it that things
are not catching on fire, right like, I'm enjoying the
heck out of that. But we've had a very it's
(02:19):
been humid, you know, we've had regular rainstorms and thunderstorms
and things like that. Is this a strange weather pattern
for us? Am I misreading this?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
And no? Actually I think what it is is it's
the short term memory of the last couple of maybe
three to five summers of blazing heat and fire concerns.
This actually made was very good to us. As you know,
we were above normal for precipitation and the temperatures were
just a little below. June has actually been sevenal I
mean what we experienced in June, we had stretches of
(02:53):
slightly below normal temperatures but nothing cold, and we had
stretches of ninety plus degree heat. We got the ninety
nine a couple of days in a row almost one
hundred degrees. Didn't reach the century mark. But the month
of June actually only ended up zero point eight degrees,
eight tenths of a degree above normal. And it wasn't
the highs it averaged us up that eight tenths of
(03:15):
a degree. It was the morning loaves that pumped us
up just beyond normal, which was kind of interesting. So
even though we had those hot stretches, even though we
had ninety eight, ninety nine, ninety seven degree days, it
was the lows that pumped us just above average, and
from moist we ended up a quarter of an inch ahead.
The most we had was one point three inches. That
was a soggy I'm trying to remember what day it was.
(03:35):
It might have been a Saturday early in the month.
So we're okay, and here we are. You know, last
night we start the month of July. Yesterday we hit
ninety three degrees. That's above average. Average right now is
eighty nine, so it's four degrees above. But we have
a thunderstorm come right up over the airport and it
dumped three a third of an inch. So here we
are the second wettest month, and on the first day
(03:58):
on a month where we get two point one four
inches of rain, we already got a third of an inch.
So that was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
To your point, though not everybody's getting the rain equally.
What's what's fascinating. As I was driving home on Sunday
night from Aurora down into Dougco and it was pouring
in Aurora, I mean pouring, and then by the it's
like I crossed the doug Coot line and nothing nothing,
It all stops and it's like, oh, okay, well it's
not raining here. So if people are not getting the
(04:25):
kind of rain that we're talking about, you're just unlucky,
I guess. But overall, I mean it's been it's been
a net positive. But I don't recall it feels humid.
Is our humidity higher? Am I just having residual humidity
attacks from Japan?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah? No, Actually it's been right where we should be
at this time of the year. We tend to kind
of look out for the start of the monsoons, right,
So you and I you and I've talked here on
your show many many times about the humidity and due
point and how humidity is a percentage of the moisture
in the air, where due point is an actual measurement
of the moisture. Generally, what we look for is due
(05:01):
points that signal the start of the monsoon rains that
are going to be in the mid fifties. Right we've
been going back and forth from the upper forties to
the low fifties. We've had a few days that got
in the upper fifties, and those are the days that
it may have felt more humid and yielded us good rain.
But right now, our due points are just about where
they should be. They're not high enough to be considered monsoon.
(05:23):
They're not really significantly above what we would expect, but
they're high enough that the heating of the day, and
we're getting into the hottest part of the summer here
in July, that we can trigger storms as the landscape
heats up. So it's decent, but I wouldn't call it,
you know, for Colorado. I mean, you know, fifty sixty
percent humidity is like, oh my goodness, yeah, exactly, that's it.
(05:47):
But you've got to go to the Midwest, where like
we look at due points in the mid fifties to
about sixty degrees to be considered Colorado humid. But you
can go into the Midwest and find those same due
points oppressively thick seventies and eighties where you can drink.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I mean when I remember when I first came out here,
right after I got my job, so this would have
been like April May before. No, wait a minute, it
was August. I guess when I started out here. I
can't remember. The days are all jumbled together. So I
go to a baseball game with my boss and his
boss at the time, and.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
We're sitting there.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Now, I'm coming from Louisville, Kentucky, where every day is
a swamp right to your point. Every day it's like
eighty five percent humidity. It's miserable every day. And we're
sitting at coursefield and I'm thinking to myself, this is glorious.
This is the greatest weather I have ever experienced in
an August in my lifetime. And they look at me
and go, God, it's so humid right now, because they're apologizing.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Because it's not normally.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
And it was like forty percent humidity.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Dave and I just laughed. I was like, you've got
to be kidding me. This is glorious.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
So I've got a couple questions from the text line
I want to get in before we ran out of time.
This one is Mandy Sunday evening. We had a thunderstorm
that had constant thunder and lightning rumbling, but the lightning
never appeared to come in contact with the ground.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Please ab Dave explain this.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
It's cloud to cloud lightning, so that that is a
type of the strike that we can get and that
generally happens with what we call nocturnal storms. The storms
are still electric, but they're not as vibrant as they
would be during the day where they have a little
more electricity. And so we call that cloud to cloud
lightning that you see at night, and it is vivid
and it lights up the sky and it can be
continuous in that type of an environment. We also I'll
(07:29):
just briefly touch on you know, people in the Midwest
always refer to a lightning that they can't hear thunder
a heat lightning because you know, it's on a warm,
humid night in the planes and you're looking off in
the distance, you can't hear the thunder, and people refer
to that as heat lighting. There's no such thing as
heat lightning. It's just the thunderstorm that's so far away
you can't hear the thunder. So got as long as
(07:51):
we were talking about lightning.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Here's the possibly most ridiculous, but question I really want
the answer to.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
We've ever gotten?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
How many different suits does Dave have to wear for
all his shows? Does his closet look like Henry Hill
from Goodfellas?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
You know, we rotate, throw, we try and update, and
it's like a typical wardrobe. You know. Here's the funny thing.
I talk with guys that work about this all the time.
You know, women I have to go on TV and
they have to have numerous ouses. Honestly, a guy could
wear a black suit with a white shirt and change
in kigh five days in a row, and I guarantee
you most people won't know it. And there was a
(08:29):
guy in Australia television newscaster in Australia who did that
for an entire year and nobody noticed, of course that
he was wearing the same one. And there's some guys
locally that do the same thing. I mean, Jay Leno
wears the same pair of jean shirt and jean pants.
He's got, like, you know, so many of them. But
it's the same thing every day. And there's a couple
(08:50):
of guys on Nightline on NBC that do the same
watch them. They wear the same attire. It's the same
black eyed white shirt and black suit every single time
they're on.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Well, you know, my little side project, I got this
YouTube show with my friend Debrah Flora, and we are
literally like, oh my god, when can we start repeating outfits?
Because neither of us are what you would call a
clothes horse.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
And you know, I work in radio, Dave.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I mean, I barely wear pants to the office most days,
so it's like wearing clothes that people are gonna see.
That's like a whole new ball game that I'm not
quite sure what to do with.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
So I don't envy that at all.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
For the folks working in TV and having that added
pressure of having to look good.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Too, Yeah, well, and there's seasonal right, certain suits looking
a little better in different seasons than you rotate through.
And then everyhow and then you know, I mean a
couple of years you go out and buy three or
four suits and kind of spice up the wardrobe. I
really think it's the tie that makes the difference, and
I look for ties that are bold but not flashy,
that stand out against a white shirt. I always wear
white shirts. I think white shirts are better than colored
(09:51):
or striped or patterned shirts. I think the tie pops
on a white shirt. I always wear white shirts, and
I look for ties that can cross over different color suits.
You know, the color stands out with a black suit,
but can also stand out with a gray suit, and
so you can get multiple uses out of ties with
different setups.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Dave gets my fashion. Dab Frazier gets it. Baby, he knows.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Dave knows what's up, and you can see and judge
his fashion accordingly. Uh as he gives you the most
accurate forecast on Fox thirty one. Dave Frazer, good to
talk to you, my friend. I'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Happy fourteen. Hey, hey Rod, everybody over at iHeart and
to all of your listeners and our viewers. Everybody have
a safe holiday.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Hey you too, my friend. We'll talk to you next week.
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