Let's jump right to it, because this weekend I have enjoyed the heck out the last couple of days. Not gonna lie nice and warm. But we're not done with winter yet.
We are not. You know, when we told you April is Denver's second snowiest month, it should be no surprise that the chance for snows still exists. You know, I'm looking at the forecast as I always do before talking with you, and you know it goes back to the same conversation we had the last couple of weeks if things started to green up and people wondering about turning
sprinklers on and is it too early to plant. Well, I've got three mornings Friday morning, Saturday morning, and Sunday morning, all with temperatures below freezing twenty eight to twenty eight to thirty degree. So that is why we always say don't go too fast into spring. You've got to wait until Mother's Day before we can guarantee you that those overnight lows won't be below freezing. So yep, that's what
we're looking at. We got snow starting Thursday after midnight on and off Friday, and wrapping up maybe a little later Sunday. Morning. It looks like it made linger into Sunday morning. We're still working on totals, Mandy, but you may have to grab the shovel in a few places. Ah boo.
Anyway, how about the mountains. I just saw today that we are now well below the averages for snowpack. What's going on up there?
So yes, no question about that. But here's the thing when it comes to the snowpack in the mountains, and I'm pretty sure we've covered this. We load the mountains through April seventh. Anything that we can add to the mountains after April seventh is a bonus, is a win to the snowpack to increase those numbers. After April seventh, we start to get into the melting and the draining of those of those basins that feed the reservoirs and
the rivers and so forth. So to be seen the numbers coming down, you're starting to see the influence of
some of that melting. So it's not a surprise to see those basins, especially southwest southern Colorado, that struggled to get to eighty eighty five percent never really reached one hundred percent, not surprising to see them dropping quickly now down to sixty fifty five percent, and even the northern Front Range, while the South Platte, which feeds the Front Range had been running over one hundred percent, looked good,
We're now down to like ninety three percent. Wow, So you're starting to see the influence of those numbers coming down. So I don't pay attention as much to the snowpack. What we have is what we have. If we can load another six or ten inches, great, it's a bonus. And I do think we're going to do that in the next few days, because while we'll be dealing with several inches down here, I can see some six and
ten inch totals in the central and northern Mountains. And right now there are no highlights for travel impacts, but I guarantee you those will be hoisted by the National Weather Service in the coming twenty four to thirty six hours.
So what am I looking at for my trip to winter Park this weekend? We're broadcasting from the Children's Hospitals, Mighty Million, Raffle House, Ross and I both are on Friday. So are we going to get caught in snow up there this weekend?
You definitely are, no question about it. Thursday, it starts off as rain, it'll be a range snow mixing. The mountains should change over to snow pretty quickly with sunset in the mountains. I don't know that your roads will be terrible Thursday evening, but if you're planning on going up Friday, you could run into some issues on the roads. Now.
The good thing about April snow is even at higher elevations, is the sun angle is higher and it has more influence on helping to keep the roads a little more fawd if you will. But you're always going to run into You're always going to run into convective snow showers at this time the year, which can have a heavier burst of snow, and you can run into quick patches of slushy, sloppy conditions. And certainly if you're uphie you've got to go over Burstat Pass, you go over Birtha Pass.
It could be a little bit of a challenge. So I would say, if you guys are heading up there, give yourself some extra time and then it will continue to snow Friday. I think the biggest impact on the roads both there and potentially down here, will be when the sunsets Friday night into Saturday morning. I think that's when we'll have a better chance of accumulating snow. So if you're going up during the day and you want to get out of that, I get going before sunset on Friday evening.
Now, I just heard from our Fox thirty one weather forecast in our news here that tomorrow we're going to have a red flag day, and it got me thinking, do we have We always had red flag days like this early in the season. I always feel like that has traditionally come later in the summer, and it feels like we're having them sort of outside that traditional window or am I just misremembering things?
Now we can get them. Your thought process is correct, and that you think more of that when we get into the heat of the summer and the dry days, and certainly into the fall when you know we're in that dry patch before winter kicks in. But talk to any firefighter across the state, with our expanding population and growth, the fact that we have you know dry periods. Really, fire weather season is all year long. So if you think about when the Marshall fire hit, that was a
rest this morning day. Obviously from the roaring winds, we had had a prolonged dry period. That was a period where we didn't get snow until very late in the season, and here early in the season you can get them because we just haven't had a lot of moisture. March was kind of stingy. Right now, April we're running about a half an inch behind, which, by the way, I've been saying this on the air and I will continue
to do it if there is a silver lining. While you may be annoyed with the fact that it's going to snow Thursday night, all day Friday and too Saturday morning, it's the moisture content. Though we could get more than a half an inch, maybe even six cents of an inch. That may not sound like a lot, it is substantial. And if your allergies have been kicking up, just wait until next week. Everything's gonna take off, thinks.
Thanks, that's exactly what I want to hear. Hey, the allergies which have been killing you for the last six weeks, or who about to get way, way worse. That's that's not encouraging. So is this gonna be big, heavy snow? Is this going to be hard to shove the snow?
Yeah, it's gonna be heavy and wet, it'll melt underneath. If it freezes overnight, you could have that coating in your garage and drive away the roads. Again, I think elevations may be above six sixty five hundred, so that puts the foothills to the west, some communities obviously on the south side of town. You know, we could be looking at We're gonna work on the details of totals.
I'm thinking right now two to four, two to five, there could be some six inch totals for the front range from Fort Coong to the city to the south. It says you get into the foothills and climb up in elevation beyond seven thousand feet and higher into the mountains where I think those totals could be deeper than that. And yes, as it's typical in March and April, it'll be the heavy, wet kind of concrete, if you will, A sh road will weigh a lot, so you got
to be careful, watch your back. I have that problem, so take it slow. If you're using a snowblower and you've got four or five inches, it's going to be like a slushy machine. It's not going to throw it very far. But again the moisture content is going to be absolutely fantastic.
Well, somebody said, I've got a weather question real quick before we have to take a break here in just a minute, Mandy, is there an equivalent feels like temperature table for humidity as there is with wind speed for wind chill?
There is? It feels like temperature every single day. You go to the National Weather Service website and you look like you go to their homepage and you put in the upper left hand corner, there's a box and you can put in a city. It bring up whatever the censor is closest to where you live, and it will show you temperature, wind steak, And there's a feels like right there, calculated every day. So on dry days it'll be lower, on the humid days it could be a
little higher. It's always there and it's always calculated in all right.
And somebody just asked about to see you spring football game. It's not this weekend, though? Is it this weekend? So is Ralphie going to be running through the snow and boulder?
I don't, ay Rod, do you know what that game is? I'm not sure.
Ayron said it was this weekend.
I thought it was this week. I'm not sure if it is Saturday, yes, Ralph could be running in some snow. You know what's interesting, and I know you've got to go. I went to look to see when was the last time Denver had three inches of snow in April? You know what it was when the nineteenth and twentieth of last year we had three point three on the nineteenth and three on the twentieth, six point three inches. Guess what we got Friday and Saturday, Lee, two to six inches of snow? All right?
Are repeat?
Imagine that?
But you know what, Davis, they always say in Colorado, we need the moist chair.
You're going to get it, all right, man, Thank you.
That's save Frasier from Fox thirty one. You should watch him and his team. They do a great job. We'll talk again next week, Dave Hi