September 24, 2025 • 9 mins
WEATHER WEDNESDAY TODAY And I will ask Fox 31's Dave Fraser how much snow the mountains got and how much rain we got so get your other questions ready.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
After yesterday's gloomy day of rain. But of course, when
you live in Colorado, you have to automatically say, but
we needed the moisture. We're going to talk to Fox
thirty one's chief meteorologist, Dave Frasier about what kind of
moisture totals we got.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
David, would have been.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Great to have yesterday be a Saturday when we didn't
have to go to work.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Oh yeah, absolutely, I agree with you one hundred percent.
I loved the conversation about, you know, sitting around a
cup of coffee or coked.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yeah, watching a watching a movie, reading a book.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Listen to the pitter pad of rain out on the
windows and the doors and the roof and the whole
soup conversation. By the way, loaded potato bacon soup is
what I make.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
You cannot go wrong with loaded potato soup.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
There's no way to screw that soup up. It's so
perfect every single time.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
And it's easy, Yeah, the easiest thing. Dump everything into
the crock pot and enjoy. Correct. Correct.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
So let's talk about how productive that rain was, because
moy it lasted forever and it was like a nice,
gentle rain. First of all, let's talk about snow totals
in the out was what do we get?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
So we had anywhere from two and a half around Loveland,
which they were excited to see. It won't help with
the skiing. They need some cold nights to get the
guns running. So we saw that up on Loveland Pass
and over air Loveland Ski and then we had similar
reports up near Brainerd Lake off.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
To the west. There were some higher totals.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Like Winter Park got seven inches. That was exciting. You
could see it on their snowstick which is their webcam online.
And then we had some other one twos and threes.
There were a couple of six and a half inch
reports up near Cameron Pass. Obviously up to the north
along Highway fourteen, so there were some decent totals. I
would say two and a half to seven inch was
about what we saw, and it wasn't everywhere. Obviously, this
(01:43):
was hugging the higher peaks, the higher terrain, and while
we had our first winter weather advisory for the mountain passes,
they actually did very well because this just didn't contain
a lot of cold there, but there was enough at
past eleven thousand to fourteen thousand feet to throw some
accumulating on the peaks. So what do we get?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Obviously, we just got rain here and nobody saw any
snow here in the metro did they know?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
No, no, no, no, no, it was all rain. It
was all rain. And I was telling I was telling
a rod. You know. One of the great things about
yesterday's rain was a lot of viewers were emailing me
at the station telling me how much rain they got
using their rain gagers and stuff, and they were excited
about it.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Wait, can I just say, like, as a weather man,
that's got to be kind of fun, right, everybody rushing
to tell you how much rain they got on their
house on Smith Street in Denver.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Like, Yeah, I think that's got to be kind of
interesting to just see how many people are excited to
share their numbers with you.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
When we start when we have a snow event of significance,
our inbox when it comes to snow totals, when we
have like a snow day and everybody's at home and
the kids at school has been canceled, our inbox just explodes, Yeah,
with people wanting to send us their snow measurements, their
pictures of what's going on because they want us to
(02:59):
see and it actually helps to tell the story because
of our veried terrain and we know that, you know,
one neighborhood can get this much and another one can
get that much, and it really does help us. So
yesterday I was getting a lot of emails, a lot
of most of them were coming from the northern Front
Range where the totals ranged. As you get up towards
Fort Collins, Greeley and then up the Ice seventy sixth quarter,
there were some two two plus inches there. That was
(03:20):
the area that actually had the higher totals, and then
as you came down I twenty five into Denver, there's
some one inches one and a half, and then you
go south of there, the numbers dropped off a little bit,
but everybody in northeast Colorado and along the Front Range
got it down towards Monuments about a half an inch
around an inch in Castle Rock, and then you get
an inch inch and a half as you go a
little farther north from there. So it's fantastic. And for Denver,
(03:43):
we had a daily rainfall record yesterday one point two, yeah,
one point two eight inches. It broke the old record
of eighty three hundreds back in I think twenty seventeen,
and now for the month of September.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
And we will not get any more rain.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
For the month. Were hind by six tenths of an
inch and now we're ahead by a half an inch.
Actually a little more than half an inch. So we
have done really well in September just with two storm
two rain events that we had, and we're two and
a half inches ahead for the year. So August, yeah, September.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I was going to ask you about that because I
was talking to a woman and I don't know if
I told you this last week, but I met a
woman who moved to the Springs like last year, so
she's been here a little less than a year, and
she said, you know, it rains every day, And I said,
that's not that normal for here. Normally everything's on fire
by now, so be grateful for the rain. I was
(04:37):
going to ask you, like, this summer feels very wet
and humid.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah, yeah, well, you know I always pulled before our
conversations the outlooks.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
For the month, and here we go again.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
So if you'll remember, July ended up warm and dry,
and there.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Was some fire concerns.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
And then August came and the thirty day out looked
for August was warmer and drier than normal, and that
wasn't ended up being the case. We had two big
events in August, one on the twenty sixth, one on
the tenth. They both were like one point three one
point four inches. We ended up with the third wettest August.
It was cool, and so the long range OUTLOKD busted
for August, and here in September it was the same.
(05:15):
The outlook for September was supposed to be warm and
dry than normal, but now we're half an inch ahead
for the month. We won't. It's not record setting, and.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
The temperatures are about actually.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
We're one degree below normal, and the forecast of the
remaining days in September are.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Right about average.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
So I don't think we're going to be anywhere near warmer.
And the out October is dry and warmer than normal,
and I just don't buy it at this point because
all it takes is I tell you time and time again,
it only takes one event. So a thirty day average,
all you need is one day like we had yesterday
to bust.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
That thirty day right, it's just kind of interesting to
watch the way our weather pattern The weather patterns this
year for me have felt very strange. Not that not horrible,
not like, you know, we need to build an arc
or something, but it's just this summer has been different
than any of the prior summers that I can remember
in terms of it just as felt humid the whole summer.
(06:11):
It is it is, you know, the rain has been consistent, like,
it's just been interesting. And you've got to wonder, in
the grand scheme of climate change, what all of this
sort of is going to mean going forward.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Well, you know, and it's a valid point. You know,
weather by definition is variable. It ebbs and it flows.
I like to take it seven to ten days at
a time. I know there will be stretches during a
season summer, winter, spring, fall where things may be a
little you know, a little cooler, a little warmer, a
little drier, a little wetter. I always say, never give
(06:45):
up on a season until it's done. You got to
wait until the final calculations come in. However, you know,
you're talking about climate change and stuff. One of the
things we looked at is we are going to post
another September because we have no snow in the forecast
right now in the end of the month, going to
post another September where we have not had measurable snow,
not even a trace. And so we looked back. September
(07:08):
is generally Denver's first measurable snow month on average through
our record history going back to the eighteen hundreds, is
about an inch. Well, I looked at the status yesterday.
We were talking at work, and the last time we
had one inch of snow, it was that big wind
width that we had. You'll remember we were like at
one hundred and one, and two days later the temperature
(07:30):
plummeted into the thirties. We ended up with a winch
inch of snow. That was in twenty twenty. You have
to go all the way back to two thousand to
find the next measurable snow. We've had one one inch
snowstorm in the month of September in twenty four years. Yeah,
that's it. That's it. So you have to look at that,
(07:51):
and you have to read into that is summer gotten
a little later? Here's like is Labor Day not really
the end of the summer season. Those are things that climate.
Climate is cyclical and it changes and you know, when
we use averages, we're using a thirty year average. Obviously
ten years from now that average could change, and so
we have to monitor and keep an eye on that.
(08:12):
But the weather, I agree with you, has been just perfect.
Little warm stretches nineties, ninety ninety five, ninety eight, one
hundred book, Here comes a cold front, here comes some races,
and I just think, I look at my lawn, I
drive around, I see people's you know, you know, landscaping,
and I look at the natural the natural grasses that
round a little bit. That's okay, we're at that time
(08:34):
of the year. But I just think we have been
in a great shape all season long.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I agree Dave Frasier. I got one quick question from
the text line. Why do the seven seven day temperature
bar charts only show the high temperature?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
They're all lowe They're all.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
The same on the bottom, and then it shows on
the bar chart where the high is. I don't know
how you'd even fix that.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I guess i'd need to see an example of what
they're talking about. Our seven day forecast. Yeah, as low
temperatures that we have white boxes at the bottom showing
the overnight lows for each day, and then the high
temperature is sitting on the top.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Well, and they say they just show the low temp
as a number, not on the bars themselves. I just
think that's an aesthetic thing.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Don't you think they may be talking about a bar
forecast that could be different from a seven day forecast
where the bars kind of go up and down depending
on what the temperatures are, but the bottom stays the same.
That may be something somebody created where they're just illustrating
the high temperatures, so you'll see different elevations in the
high temperatures based on what the high is, and then
(09:39):
underneath that it could just be a steady stream of
what the lows are and they didn't use like bars
to represent the low temperatures. That's my guess without seeing it.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yeah, that sounds reasonable to me. I think it's more
of an aesthetics thing than anything else.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Okay, we're late, Dave Fraser.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
We'll talk to you again next week.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
My friend, I enjoyed the warm up coming your way
for the week.
After yesterday's gloomy day of rain. But of course, when
you live in Colorado, you have to automatically say, but
we needed the moisture. We're going to talk to Fox
thirty one's chief meteorologist, Dave Frasier about what kind of
moisture totals we got.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
David, would have been.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Great to have yesterday be a Saturday when we didn't
have to go to work.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Oh yeah, absolutely, I agree with you one hundred percent.
I loved the conversation about, you know, sitting around a
cup of coffee or coked.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yeah, watching a watching a movie, reading a book.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Listen to the pitter pad of rain out on the
windows and the doors and the roof and the whole
soup conversation. By the way, loaded potato bacon soup is
what I make.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
You cannot go wrong with loaded potato soup.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
There's no way to screw that soup up. It's so
perfect every single time.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
And it's easy, Yeah, the easiest thing. Dump everything into
the crock pot and enjoy. Correct. Correct.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
So let's talk about how productive that rain was, because
moy it lasted forever and it was like a nice,
gentle rain. First of all, let's talk about snow totals
in the out was what do we get?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
So we had anywhere from two and a half around Loveland,
which they were excited to see. It won't help with
the skiing. They need some cold nights to get the
guns running. So we saw that up on Loveland Pass
and over air Loveland Ski and then we had similar
reports up near Brainerd Lake off.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
To the west. There were some higher totals.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Like Winter Park got seven inches. That was exciting. You
could see it on their snowstick which is their webcam online.
And then we had some other one twos and threes.
There were a couple of six and a half inch
reports up near Cameron Pass. Obviously up to the north
along Highway fourteen, so there were some decent totals. I
would say two and a half to seven inch was
about what we saw, and it wasn't everywhere. Obviously, this
(01:43):
was hugging the higher peaks, the higher terrain, and while
we had our first winter weather advisory for the mountain passes,
they actually did very well because this just didn't contain
a lot of cold there, but there was enough at
past eleven thousand to fourteen thousand feet to throw some
accumulating on the peaks. So what do we get?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Obviously, we just got rain here and nobody saw any
snow here in the metro did they know?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
No, no, no, no, no, it was all rain. It
was all rain. And I was telling I was telling
a rod. You know. One of the great things about
yesterday's rain was a lot of viewers were emailing me
at the station telling me how much rain they got
using their rain gagers and stuff, and they were excited
about it.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Wait, can I just say, like, as a weather man,
that's got to be kind of fun, right, everybody rushing
to tell you how much rain they got on their
house on Smith Street in Denver.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Like, Yeah, I think that's got to be kind of
interesting to just see how many people are excited to
share their numbers with you.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
When we start when we have a snow event of significance,
our inbox when it comes to snow totals, when we
have like a snow day and everybody's at home and
the kids at school has been canceled, our inbox just explodes, Yeah,
with people wanting to send us their snow measurements, their
pictures of what's going on because they want us to
(02:59):
see and it actually helps to tell the story because
of our veried terrain and we know that, you know,
one neighborhood can get this much and another one can
get that much, and it really does help us. So
yesterday I was getting a lot of emails, a lot
of most of them were coming from the northern Front
Range where the totals ranged. As you get up towards
Fort Collins, Greeley and then up the Ice seventy sixth quarter,
there were some two two plus inches there. That was
(03:20):
the area that actually had the higher totals, and then
as you came down I twenty five into Denver, there's
some one inches one and a half, and then you
go south of there, the numbers dropped off a little bit,
but everybody in northeast Colorado and along the Front Range
got it down towards Monuments about a half an inch
around an inch in Castle Rock, and then you get
an inch inch and a half as you go a
little farther north from there. So it's fantastic. And for Denver,
(03:43):
we had a daily rainfall record yesterday one point two, yeah,
one point two eight inches. It broke the old record
of eighty three hundreds back in I think twenty seventeen,
and now for the month of September.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
And we will not get any more rain.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
For the month. Were hind by six tenths of an
inch and now we're ahead by a half an inch.
Actually a little more than half an inch. So we
have done really well in September just with two storm
two rain events that we had, and we're two and
a half inches ahead for the year. So August, yeah, September.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I was going to ask you about that because I
was talking to a woman and I don't know if
I told you this last week, but I met a
woman who moved to the Springs like last year, so
she's been here a little less than a year, and
she said, you know, it rains every day, And I said,
that's not that normal for here. Normally everything's on fire
by now, so be grateful for the rain. I was
(04:37):
going to ask you, like, this summer feels very wet
and humid.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah, yeah, well, you know I always pulled before our
conversations the outlooks.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
For the month, and here we go again.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
So if you'll remember, July ended up warm and dry,
and there.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Was some fire concerns.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
And then August came and the thirty day out looked
for August was warmer and drier than normal, and that
wasn't ended up being the case. We had two big
events in August, one on the twenty sixth, one on
the tenth. They both were like one point three one
point four inches. We ended up with the third wettest August.
It was cool, and so the long range OUTLOKD busted
for August, and here in September it was the same.
(05:15):
The outlook for September was supposed to be warm and
dry than normal, but now we're half an inch ahead
for the month. We won't. It's not record setting, and.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
The temperatures are about actually.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
We're one degree below normal, and the forecast of the
remaining days in September are.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Right about average.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
So I don't think we're going to be anywhere near warmer.
And the out October is dry and warmer than normal,
and I just don't buy it at this point because
all it takes is I tell you time and time again,
it only takes one event. So a thirty day average,
all you need is one day like we had yesterday
to bust.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
That thirty day right, it's just kind of interesting to
watch the way our weather pattern The weather patterns this
year for me have felt very strange. Not that not horrible,
not like, you know, we need to build an arc
or something, but it's just this summer has been different
than any of the prior summers that I can remember
in terms of it just as felt humid the whole summer.
(06:11):
It is it is, you know, the rain has been consistent, like,
it's just been interesting. And you've got to wonder, in
the grand scheme of climate change, what all of this
sort of is going to mean going forward.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Well, you know, and it's a valid point. You know,
weather by definition is variable. It ebbs and it flows.
I like to take it seven to ten days at
a time. I know there will be stretches during a
season summer, winter, spring, fall where things may be a
little you know, a little cooler, a little warmer, a
little drier, a little wetter. I always say, never give
(06:45):
up on a season until it's done. You got to
wait until the final calculations come in. However, you know,
you're talking about climate change and stuff. One of the
things we looked at is we are going to post
another September because we have no snow in the forecast
right now in the end of the month, going to
post another September where we have not had measurable snow,
not even a trace. And so we looked back. September
(07:08):
is generally Denver's first measurable snow month on average through
our record history going back to the eighteen hundreds, is
about an inch. Well, I looked at the status yesterday.
We were talking at work, and the last time we
had one inch of snow, it was that big wind
width that we had. You'll remember we were like at
one hundred and one, and two days later the temperature
(07:30):
plummeted into the thirties. We ended up with a winch
inch of snow. That was in twenty twenty. You have
to go all the way back to two thousand to
find the next measurable snow. We've had one one inch
snowstorm in the month of September in twenty four years. Yeah,
that's it. That's it. So you have to look at that,
(07:51):
and you have to read into that is summer gotten
a little later? Here's like is Labor Day not really
the end of the summer season. Those are things that climate.
Climate is cyclical and it changes and you know, when
we use averages, we're using a thirty year average. Obviously
ten years from now that average could change, and so
we have to monitor and keep an eye on that.
(08:12):
But the weather, I agree with you, has been just perfect.
Little warm stretches nineties, ninety ninety five, ninety eight, one
hundred book, Here comes a cold front, here comes some races,
and I just think, I look at my lawn, I
drive around, I see people's you know, you know, landscaping,
and I look at the natural the natural grasses that
round a little bit. That's okay, we're at that time
(08:34):
of the year. But I just think we have been
in a great shape all season long.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I agree Dave Frasier. I got one quick question from
the text line. Why do the seven seven day temperature
bar charts only show the high temperature?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
They're all lowe They're all.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
The same on the bottom, and then it shows on
the bar chart where the high is. I don't know
how you'd even fix that.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I guess i'd need to see an example of what
they're talking about. Our seven day forecast. Yeah, as low
temperatures that we have white boxes at the bottom showing
the overnight lows for each day, and then the high
temperature is sitting on the top.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Well, and they say they just show the low temp
as a number, not on the bars themselves. I just
think that's an aesthetic thing.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Don't you think they may be talking about a bar
forecast that could be different from a seven day forecast
where the bars kind of go up and down depending
on what the temperatures are, but the bottom stays the same.
That may be something somebody created where they're just illustrating
the high temperatures, so you'll see different elevations in the
high temperatures based on what the high is, and then
(09:39):
underneath that it could just be a steady stream of
what the lows are and they didn't use like bars
to represent the low temperatures. That's my guess without seeing it.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yeah, that sounds reasonable to me. I think it's more
of an aesthetics thing than anything else.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Okay, we're late, Dave Fraser.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
We'll talk to you again next week.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
My friend, I enjoyed the warm up coming your way
for the week.
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