It is that time of the week to bring our friend and yours, chief meteorologist at Fox thirty one, Dave Frasier, back to the show. Dave, can you turn up the heat on your way out?
Please? I'm surprised you still reference me as our friend because sometimes on days like this on enemy number one on the poster board.
Well, it didn't snow that much, so you're kind of off the hook and you could literally move this stuff with a snow I mean with a you.
Know, a blower.
You didn't even have to shovel. It was so light and flufy. But where are we headed for the rest of this week temperature wise? Because I got to tell you, I've now only been here thirteen years, and this morning I got up and I opened the door and the wind hurt my face and I was like, I no longer like this wind and this cold. So what are we looking at?
Well, you're right, the snow amounts were good. With the snow on the ground. When you have that blanket and the sky clear and you cool, pull away any chance to hold in one. So tonight we got another cold night. We'll go down below zero. We're forecasting right around four below will be our updated forecast. However, there will be metro areas that may not go below zero, and if you're up in elevation, like on the south side of town or in the foothills, you don't get into the
thickest of the cold. So we think the coldest readings will be out of the eastern plains there with a little bit of a breeze when you're dealing with temperatures that low windshills could get below minus fifteen. So we
do have a cold weather advisory. There will kick in later tonight, so about eight o'clock tomorrow morning, and the reason for that expiration at eight am is that generally in these patterns, what happens is the wind overnight tonight, albeit light, will turn and come out of the south and west. In temperatures, while they will go below zero, should start to rise right about sunrise and then quickly get up above freezing by the time we get probably
ten or eleven tomorrow morning. So it's just a quick little hit in the morning, but you got to dress smart for that kind of weather. I do have near forty tomorrow. I got fifty on Friday for Valentine's Day. However, there may be a rain shower here and there come later in the day on Friday, nothing to wash out any plans for your sweetheart. And then cold front gets us back into the thirties with a little light snow maybe a half an inch a little more in some location. Saturday.
Another chance of some more light snow in mid thirties on Tuesday. But between then Sunday and Monday we go
back to the forties and fifties. It's that time of the air, Mandy, that the sun, the days are getting a little longer on angles coming up, so you're going to have these spots you're going to have, you know, the gloves are on between spring approaching in about five weeks in winter, trying to hang on, and so the sea swings like this with snow possible every three to five days, not out of question.
How is the snowpack in the mountains? This is holiday weekend, a lot of people are going to be heading up to go skiing. There's a big scheme week had. How is the snowpack in the in the mountains right now?
Yeah? President's Day weekend, and with Valentine's Day to day before, you got a lot of people cutting out on Friday heading up, it is going to be there is going to be heavy snow. The snow packed for the central and northern Mountains. Our water supplied for the Front Range is still in great shape at ninety plus up to one hundred or more. The San Juan Mountains in southwest Colorado continues to struggle and they're pulling down the average to below one hundred percent for the state. But again
we're in good shape. Here in the north. There is a push of Pacific moisture. You hear us talk about it all the time. The Pineapple Express coming into California. They're getting ready for heavy rain and that Pacific moisture will push into the Colorado Mountains. Because it's coming from west to east, the mountains will block the vast majority of that. That's why we're only looking at light rain or snowshowers spilling off the mountains Friday into Saturday. So
here's our advice. We've already put this on our spotlight. If you're planning on traveling, there will be snow when you head up starting Thursday night and Friday. Right now, there are no advisories, but I guarantee you the National Weather Service is going to add in a winter storm warning for the I seventy quarter. There are already watchers for the San Juan. The San Juans can get one to three feet. That's fantastic news, great skiing powder. We're looking at probably a foot to a foot and a
half in the northern and central mountains. The challenge, as always when you talking about fresh snow in time for a long holiday weekend of skiing, is getting there, and that snow will continue into Saturday morning. So Friday into Saturday morning is going to be a challenge on the ice seventy quarter.
All right, there you go. I got one question for you here. Any idea when the drop freeze in the middle of the country is going to thaw. This from an over the road trucker who's had enough of it.
Yeah, you know, while we've been they're in it for a couple more days. That chunk of icy air, you know, slide down the midwest. So the farther west you come, we're on the western edge of it. And as I've explained before, it's like pouring syrup into a low spot. So the coldest, the densest air, that thick low cloud deck, the freeezing drizzle, all of that kind of stuff, the rim frost that you see on the trees and everything else that's stuck in the Midwest. We're just on the
western edge of it and getting cliffed. So as you leave Denver, go into the plains and you drop down an elevation, you start to get into the colder air. And certainly as you depart Colorado and heading to the Midwest, they've got several days of that before things change. The weekend storm may help to erode some of that, but overall, I don't know that they're going to get a huge improvement in the next probably two to three days. They're stuck in the deep, deep stuff.
So when we're geez, what does the two week outlook look like? I mean, are we just well, I don't even pay attention, you know what. I'm a little bit embarrassed for myself right now. I did not even pay attention to what Pusatani Phil told us on Groundhog Day. If we're going to have six more weeks of winter or not, does it look like in the nearer term, next couple weeks, is there anything we should be concerned about?
So, as always I do before I come on with you, I look at the long range outlooks. Of course, I've got the seven day nail down. I just gave it to you. The eighth to fourteen would be the next
period of time. Again, no day to day details. It continues to show a little colder than normal and a little wetter than normal, and I think that aligns with the fact that I just mentioned that about every three days we can have a little moisture, so we think there could be another one coming next Tuesday, as I mentioned, and potentially next to the following Saturday. So I think
that aligns with the kind of the pattern we're in. However, the monthly outlook, which was issued before the month still shows below average and below moisture, so below average temperatures and below moisture, and the three month outlook continually beyond February shows below to normal temperatures and below normal moisture. But as we saw in January, as we're seeing here, we're overperforming those outbooks.
I like the spacing. I like the spacing of the snow. I haven't had to water my trees this winter, so it's been kind of nice, you know, just getting a little bit here and there, And like I said, it was so cold. We didn't have to worry about it being slushy or hard to move this morning because it was just like air, absolute air, all right. Dave Frasier. Good to talk to you, my friend. We will talk to you again next week. Happy Valentine's Day to you, Dave.
Happy Valentine's to you and your crew and to everybody enjoyed the long haliday weekend. If you're going to the mountains to be safe, absolutely thank you. Dave Frazier