It's time to bring on Fox thirty one's Dave Frasier, because Dave, I don't know what kind of weather dance we need to do over here, but Friday is not looking good.
What's the other expression, don't shoot the messenger?
Uh huh?
Yeah, No, No, last week things were actually looking kind of pleasant, but of course that was ten days out, and you know, that's just a good guess. Why has the forecast changed so much this week? It seems like every day I'm looking and then it's like, oh, hi a forty four.
Oh it's going to snow. Oh it's going to rain. Oh no it's not. Oh it's gonna be cloud Oh wait ah, what's happening?
Yeah, so you hit the nail on the head. It was a ten day conversation we had when we were talking about the Rockies. And while the ten day forecast has gotten better, it's outside of the seven day, which is a lot more accurate. You can see large scale patterns.
And I think I don't think I said it on the air with you last week, but it may have been a Rod who was asking and I said to him, you know, right now, it looks good, looks like maybe load in midge sixties, but there's one outlier model that is indicating a chance of moisture, maybe a little cooler. And of course now everything is come in line with
what that picture looks like. Although I'm sitting here massaging the forecast right now and we're the biggest frustration right now is the difference in the timing on Friday, which of course is crucial to the game. With the first picture two ten, that's the part of the forecast we're trying to nail down with detail. Your description as I heard you at the top of your show about what to do if you were going to the game, I think it's spot on. I think you have to dress
for chili temperatures. I think the temperatures during the game will be around forty to forty two. There's going to be a brisk north wind up to twenty miles per hour, which swirling through the field can make it fail thirty five to thirty eight degrees.
Not really what direction is that win is that when going to carry the balls out or keep them in the stadium.
The wind will be coming from the northeast.
Okay, good, so the balls will stay in the stadium.
Yeah, okay, yeah, well, we hope, we hope their ball stay. Yeah, exactly, and then it's the timing of any moisture. And at this point I would caution and say, because we're dealing with a narrow window of a few hours, I would plan for there to be wet weather. It could be rain showers that could mix with snow. I think the chance for it to turn all snow probably doesn't come until maybe after the game. But it's certainly going to be a kind of a raw, chilly, cold, damp event
in low dough. Our cruis will be down in the morning. I know you and Roster going down in the morning. Man, make sure you're wearing the right foot of tie. Your feet are going to be freezing if you're standing outside for one periods of time on concrete. Just rest appropriately.
Well, it's you know, the sweet say there is no bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.
So there you go, exactly.
I have a question from one of our textures that is significant, Manny, can you ask about the weather in the planes to day at about the tornado threats?
What do we got going on in the plains.
So that's the storm that we had come through yesterday, And yes, it's a little bumpy out there in the Midwest. They do have a threat for severe weather. That happens not all the time, but it happens quite a bit for us, where we see the storms that we deal with go out into the plains and become nasty storms out there, and so there is a risk for severe weather to the east of us. Fortunately we didn't have to deal with that. We've got enough to deal with.
We've got a storm coming in tomorrow. Was that the one Friday that was into Saturday morning. After that, you're going to love. The forecast is we'll get back to dry and sunny conditions. But yeah, right now, there's a nasty line of thunderstorms that stretches from Chicago all the way down to east of Dallas, and pretty good snow in Minneapolis and the Twin Cities. I wouldn't be surprised if they're dealing with flight delaying and out of the Twin Cities.
There was a little bit of hail at my personal trainer, So we got a hailed on last night and she said, you know, she's from here, and she said, we don't get hail like this in early April. Is that accurate or does it just feel like we don't get hail until the summer.
Oh no, we can get hal at this time of the year as soon as we enter the spring what we call convective season, where the storms tower up. Any thunderstorm can produce hail, And at this time of the year, the freezing level in order to turn those rain drops into ice is lower, so it's easier to reach. You don't have to tower the storm up to forty fifty sixty thousand feet. That cold air is not that far off the ground. So yesterday we had a storm that kind of went right across the heart of the Metro
and on radar you could see it. The color intensity on the radar went from you know, like a light green, and all of a sudden there was this deep, screaming red and that was the convective nature of that storm kind of towering up, and we had some thunder and
lightning in there. So it was just basically it was a thunderstorm, regardless of the fact that it was April first, and in there there was some small hill There was also some groppel in there too, because I saw pictures from a lot of viewers where and that's you know, it can look like hail bounces, so it can you know, imitate hail. But it's a soft snow pellet as opposed to hall, which is, you know, more composed of ice.
And it was small, so we had both yesterday and just a sign of the season to come.
Groppol is like the most adorable form of precipitation in live view. It's like the cutest little baby snowballs, right, I mean they're just it's like little tiny Lilliputian snowballs.
And I didn't know that that was the thing.
You know, when you grew up in Florida, Dave, you don't realize that there are all these different kinds of snow, right, You just don't. And I read somewhere and I think it's like the Eskimos or in Alaska have like forty five different words for snow because there's so many different kinds.
That was a revelation for me.
You just don't think about that when you don't live in snow, that there's all these different varieties of snow.
Yeah, and our altitude plays into that, that the temperatures play into that. So we get all of those variations from the champagne powder of Steamboat Springs to the concrete slushing stuff that ways, you know, ten pounds when you're shoveling it. And I think groppolis is quite interesting myself. You know, we call them dipping guts. Yeah, they look like when they're hitting the ground, you know exactly. You don't get the ring, you don't get the rainbow colors, and.
They don't mess up your car like Hale does. Got it.
Yeah, I got a question from the Springs Colorado Springs was all Ice this morning, says this Texter, can we anticipate that again tomorrow?
So there will be So tomorrow we have the leading edge of the southern storm, and in the morning there's going to be a little band of snow that comes up from Colorado Springs over Monument Hill and into the Denver area, and then it will kind of change back to rain. So I'm anticipating that arriving in Denver probably around ten in the morning. But because it's a daytime storm in April, sun is a lot higher, a lot stronger,
I think it'll probably melt on the roads. However, I would say if it gets started in the Springs early before the sun gets going, I would caution people that watch off the bridges and overpasses. Yes, because we're in that period where the pavement gets warm during the day because the April sun is a little stronger moisture on top of it. If it gets any type of cooling
canterm slick. So I would caution to be careful early tomorrow morning once the sun gets going on, I think you'll see a lot of melting on the roads and some grassy accumulation with that snow in the morning. We're thinking around to happen inch or so in a few spots, and then it changes back over the rain and that's the first wave. And then of course you heard me talk about world we're anticipating come Friday into Saturday morning.
Okay, I got one question about the Pinpoint Weather app, and it says is the Pinpoint Weather app accurate across the US and in other countries? How does the Pinpoint Weather app get its information? Do you guys feed information into that, because I know it's an app that you and a lot of other Fox stations use across the country simultaneously at the same time. How does that app populate? Where does that come from? And is it accurate in other countries?
All apps use model data. Some apps use just raw model data. So you can see discrepancies between Weather app A and Weather maap E because they may be using different data. And that's things that we as meteorologists look at. We look at those different arrays and those different data sets to come up with what we think is the
best picture. The one thing I will say about our app is it comes from our parent company, the Weather Company, which uses IBM technology and Watson AI technology, and so it ingests the model data, and then it has its own model data that it puts out, and so we massage that a little bit here for us in Colorado, but I think it's also being massaged across the country. I can't answer specifically to internationally how it does, but I would think it would play on a model that
is best suited for whatever country you're in. And again, it's a forecast, right, so it's not going to be absolute.
But I have.
Compared them over time, and I like the way our app is set up for using it on a local level, for protect you from lightning, from being able to put the radar into motion to watch as it's gone from the last two hours to now, and then you can hit the future button to see how it progresses out. You got your hour by hour, You've got all your alert You've got your seven day, your ten day. You can click on the days of the week and get
more details about timing within the day. I just think it's laid out perfectly and you can set notifications on it so like I do, and I think a lot of viewers. You know, once I get lightning within a ten mile, lady is, it's alerting me and I do that to my location not so right right and follows me.
I have four weather apps on my phone, and I feel like it's the most accurate.
And I'm not just saying that's a blow smoke.
I just wouldn't have said anything right now if I didn't really think it. But out of the four that I have, I don't.
Know why I'm so weather obsessed, but I do. I check all of them.
I feel like it is the most accurate in real time, meaning when it comes to the forecast, like you want to know the next thirty six hours, it is by far the most accurate out of all of them. Dave Frasier, I appreciate you and we will talk again next week.
Stay warm, but enjoy opening Day to everybody going down to revel in Lodo, and good luck to the Rockies as they kick off their home opener.
Absolutely thanks Dave Fraser. We'll talk to you next week, all
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