Dave Fraser, Fox thirty one's chief not Cheap meteorologists. We clarified that some time ago, Dave, you can turn the heat up anytime, buddy.
Yeah right, no quid. Yeah, we've been stuck in this stuff for a little bit. But there is good news. There's always a silver lining. To say. Silver lining is at least the sundown.
It feels remustly better, even though we're still only in the teams teams in low twenties. But you know, having that sun out at our altitude, I always say makes a huge difference in these winter regimes.
And there is good news.
We're going to get out of this starting on Friday quickly into the forties, fifties Saturday, and then I've got a spring of sixties starting on Sunday into next week.
So yeah, yeah, get back.
Out, spread your wings and maybe get a preview of what we know will be the next season, even though it's a long way away.
I'll take it. I will take it.
Yeah.
We were out of town this past weekend and it was eighty five and perfect amount of humidity and it was lovely. And then I came back and I was like, no sun of a biscuit eater.
That was a beta.
So when we have let me ask you a question about the past couple of days where we had just a system kind of sitting on us for a couple of days where it was gray and.
It was just gross.
We don't have a lot of that here in Colorado. What has to happen for us to have multiple days of those kind of gray and gloomy skies.
So this was an arctic air mass.
The last time we talked last week, we had previewed that this was going to sink into the Midwest, just a chunk of very cold air spilling down the middle part of the country, and Denver would be on the western fringe of it.
And once you get a cold air mass like that.
A dense, thick, heavyweighted cold air mass, it's tough to budget and move it along unless you have a powerful system coming in from the west, and we just haven't had that.
So you're just kind of be in like neutral mode, if you will.
And with the cold temperatures that we were dealing with, you get that low cloud deck that's tough to a road in there. You can get the fog, the mists, the rhyme mice which gets on the trees and is pretty look at, but you just don't have a lifting component to mix the atmosphere to kind of get the you know, get it to turn over to maybe an accumulating snow rather than just the misty stuff.
You just kind of you're kind of flat.
You're just kind of hanging and waiting, and that transition is the next storm coming in.
It's not powerful, but.
It is going to nudge this cold there out. It's going to be mountain snow starting in the afternoon on Thursday. We'll get some of that Thursday evening here along the front range. That will continue into Friday morning, and then as that storm.
System lifts east of Denver, it will take the cold there with it, opening the door to the big warm up I just mentioned.
Yeah, let me just say another ye for that. I am ready for that. I got a question for you, and I'm going to ask it in two different ways, and you might even not know the answer to this, Dave, and you're okay if you don't. This texter said, what is the best location outside to install a thermometer for accuracy? But I want to take it one step further because I know you guys have weather spotters. You know, you have listeners that have weather stations and things like that.
Do you guys give out any advice for people if they want to get a weather station because they're very affordable now, you know, and my husband loves his like he loves his. So is there any advice about where to put something like a thermometer or weather station where you're, you know, around your house. Is there like a standard kind of advice you give?
There is, and I actually have on my desktop at work a diagram for it.
I don't have it on my laptop here at.
Home, but you can google it. The National Weather Service has it with pictures and stuff like that. You're going to want it away from objects. You're going to want it in an area that you know is kind of a natural area. It's going to be five feet off the ground. It's going to be a box that isn't directly.
In the sun.
So if you're looking for something official, there is that you can google it. You'll see and you know the directions of what to put it in. There's also information there for how you measure snow on a whiteboard. You have to take it in increments, and you use a whiteboard. You put it in an area where you know it may not.
Be impacted by you know, snow sliding off the roof or something like that.
But for the overall home use, anywhere in your yard is fine. I actually have on my deck, I have one of those automated stations. It's a little sensor stick that is actually I've screwed it to one of the posts on the deck where you can't see it, it's not exposed directly into the sunlight. And then my gauge is right next to my kitchen saying, so I can see the temperature, what the morning row was, what the
high was. And I do actually have an official rain gage that is also out the backside, so I can keep tract the brain and figure out if we've had enough of the storm to maybe turn the sprinklers.
Off and save myself a couple of bucks.
But anything you find online these days on Amazon or Googling, you're right, they're more reasonably priced. They're pretty cool gadgets, and I just love having one at home, So I wouldn't courage anybody just get one and don't be terribly concerned about whether or not you should put it in place.
Aob Well, this is one of those things that I've realized. Okay, and let me ask you this, Dave, because I know you're a your husband, you know, I've decided that men get completely janked when it comes to gift giving.
Right.
If you go to buy a gift for a man at.
Christmas, it is either whiskey related, football related, or some gadget that he's never going to use, and as you give it to him, you know that he's never going to use it.
So I'm trying to come up with a better list.
Of stuff for Father's Day because this is truly the perfect opportunity, you know, to the dude holiday. And I think weather Station is a great dad gift.
I agree. I totally agree with that. I mean I got slippers for Christmas.
Yeah yeah, I mean, well, you know, David's we're at the point in our lives now.
Where it's like, if you want it, I'm sure you just go.
Out and buy it, right, A hundred percent with you, But no, I think any type I think you're right, anything in the electronic world's gadget gimi key kind of stuff.
I think all of us dads kind of do go in that direction.
So if my wife on Father's Day was to give me an upgraded, more powerful, sophisticated weather station.
That I could put out back.
It wouldn't annoy her when she looks out the back windows and be seeing this big monstrosity sitting on the corner of the deck.
Or in the middle of the yard. I'm in. I'm all in on that. I think it's a weight gift.
Okay, good, perfect, That's all I wanted to know. This guy just texted in and said, Mandy, I do commercial building automation temperature controls for a living. We installa temperature sensors on the north side of the building, ideally slightly sheltered as well, but the important part is that it's on the north side of the building.
Yeah. Like I said, there are instructions.
I don't have that diagram in front of me, but if you google it, it will tell you exactly where to put it and so. And you know the interesting thing about the sensor shore when you see the picture of it, it's kind of it looks like you know.
The rooster's box on top of.
The farm, you know that kind of it has flats on it and everything like that.
So the air gets in there, but the.
Sun isn't directly influencing the sensor for temperature. One of the things we tell people is sometimes when we're forecasting, we want to remind people that those sensors are generally about five feet off the ground, and your densest coldest air can see below that. So sometimes on night when we're talking about there being a frost or you know,
your temperatures could get below freezing. The official temperature may not go that low, but that difference in five feet means the coldest air is sinking.
To the ground. So there are a lot of stipulations.
And listen, I've said it time and time again, the.
Way we collect data is not a perfect world, right.
I mean, it's going to change from one neighbor to the next. When we get snow reports from people who volunteer to you know, send in their reports. You can get snow reports from people living in the same community who might literally be a mile apart, and they're going to be different.
Well, so yeah, you just have to deal with that variation.
In the way my yard is set up, we are incredibly prone to drifts. So whereas my neighbor will only have you know, a couple of three inches on his driveway. The foot of my driveway has a foot and a half. I mean, so we just gave up trying to use our measurements as anything other than our weird house and the way it's set up. So Dave Fraser could be seen on Fox thirty one and they do the most accurate weather forecast.
You can also.
Download their app the oh, I just lost the name of it now Pinpoint Weather app. That's right, it's the one I use every single day. All right, my friend, I'll talk to you next week after we out of the deep freeze.
Yeah, we'll be in the sixties.
So next week on Wednesday, I'll look for a tick or Tate parade as we start the show.
You know what, I will make sure you have that.
A YouTube.
Man, I'll talk to you later. That is Dave Fraser from Fox thirty one.