Our favorite meteorologist. He is Box thirty one's Dave Frasier. Dave, what are we at a rainforest all of a sudden? What is happening with all the rain right now? But of course, as I am a Colorado resident, we need the moisture, I have to add that last part.
Yeah, we always need the moisture.
You know, I'm surprised I kept the favorite part because the rain is welcomed, it is needed. I didn't like the timing. I'm sure most people didn't. Made for a soggy holiday weekend, but boy was it beneficial. May is our wettest month on average, a little over two inches. We are now a little over three inches. We're not on the top twenty wett maize. We would need another
three quarters of an inch. However, we have rain chances just about every day through the end of the month, so it's possible we could crack that top twenty for wett It's made and we're ahead for the year now, so we've made up for the shortfall that was March.
In April, That's what I was going to ask you.
We pay a lot of attention to snowpack at what percentage of average? So this did kind of right the ship. I guess on our water situation.
Is that what you just said?
Yeah, I mean, you know the problem is you know they're statistics, right, so you can't hold it for when we dry out again and sprinkle it around to even it out. But statistically, right now we are ahead of the game. May has been very beneficial to it. It's interesting because you and I always talk about and I pull up the long range outlooks for these conversations to
see what's what. At the beginning of the month. In the middle of April, May was looking to be like March and April were projected to be below normal and above average for temperatures. Well, we're exactly where we should be. For temperatures. We've had a few days in the eighties, we've had days in the sixties the last couple of days,
so it's averaged out. But for moisture were ahead. So those long range outlooks, as I say, they can give you a kind of an overview, but they generally don't tell you anything about the day to day, and they
can bust. And in this case, March and April held true to be dry and warmer than normal, but May has been a bust on that long range outlook, and they just updated the six to ten day outlook, so think three more days beyond a normal seven day forecast, and we're looking to be wet and below average for the next six to ten days. And there's a pretty good chance for rain this afternoon Friday Saturday, the rain
drops off. Sunday the only dry day I have. It's our warmest date about eighty six, and then we are back to rain chances come Monday and Tuesday as we transition into the start of June.
So basically, what I just heard is Mandy, mow your lawn on Sunday. Is what I just heard? Is that what you just said? Okay, just double.
Checking, OK, if you like me do it. I'd like to do it in the morning before the rain comes to me the afternoon. So for me, my chort list is Friday morning before I go to work, so that it don't have to deal with it on the weekend. But a lot of people don't have that morning time, free time to do it, and so yeah, the best day would be Sunday.
Because of the shade in my yard, it has to have a good bit of time to dry out. From the afternoon sims the day before. Why are we in this weather pattern? Because this is not And of course my kids and grandkids came this past weekend and I was like, I honestly don't remember the last time we had this many days of gray skies and overcast and rain.
It's been a very long time.
So where what is happening right now that's creating this weather pattern?
What just kind of stuck between two areas to the west of us along the West Coast, there's an area of high pressure, it's dried there flow around that is clockwise. To the east of US, near the Great Lakes, there's an area of low pressure flow around that is added,
you know, anticlockwise. So the flow coming over Colorado is in a northwesterly direction, and so we're getting storms that are building over the mountains, which is typical, and they're drifting out of Wyoming and they're coming down across the Front Range and onto the eastern plains. With that pattern in place, we have really good moisture. We haven't been
able to flush out the moisture. And so with the moisture and plate every day, relatively good humidity levels, decent due points as we talk about the measurement of moisture in the air. You know, the due points have been running in the forties and fifties. That's good number for Denver every day with those passing showers, the thunderstorms have boisture to work with, and we're just squeezing it like a sponge. That pattern is probably going to stick around
for several more days. As I said, going in, it's funny. Right before you guys you were talking about coming to weather Wednesday, I was looking at long range models. We have one of our computer models that we look at for forecasting that has actually two of them are looking like it. I'm going to keep an eye on. It. Still has snow at around ten thousand feet on June third, and wow, emulating snow. Emulating snow of several inches, not
just the dusting. So that should tell you the wet pattern that we look like we're going to keep around as we go into Junia.
If somebody is a.
Question sort of related to what you were just talking about, and it is Mandy, please ask Dave if the fog is more dense in the spring or in the cold months. I think I know the answer, but ask anyway.
Thank you, you know, it can be both. Really, I don't think one season wins out over another. I think in the this time of the year, you're dealing with more moisture and it can be thick and grayer and dense. But in the winter months sometimes, you know, you can get that fog because of a snow that melts into the lower levels, and it can be thick as well. But I think this time of year you're dealing with
more of a gray, thicker fog. But anytime you have fog, if the air is calm, whether it's leftover rain or it's melted snow in the lower levels, it can be thick.
So this texter just asks, where are the official rain measurements taken? Is that at the weather station by the airport?
It is?
Okay?
It is so there are many weather gauges and volunteer gauges up and down the front range that we can look at and pull data from our radar. The radar that we use also has a product that we call rain vision. It can keep an estimation of rain. It's good for showing where the pathsive storms were and whether or not there was an the inch or two inches. And so we can get approximations of rain, but the official gauge is out at the airport. And you mentioned
a little bit ago about record rain. So on Sunday we did break the record for a daily rainfall total when we hit one point three nine inches. That substantial rain, yea is yeah, more than an inch in a day. And that was the official record at the airport. There were other places, plenty of places, especially on the southeast side of the Metro on Sunday, that got two to three inches of rain.
Another question for Dave, I'm looking for clear sky, still air for astronomy this weekend, and he says, southern Colorado Preblo Trinidad. Is any of that going to be Is it going to be good star watching this weekend? Anywhere in Colorado?
I would say potentially Saturday night. If the chance for storm, the chanceller storms on Saturday is very low, the sky should clear here along the front range. If not, Sundays should be pretty good Sunday night.
Last question before I let Dave Fraser for Fox thirty one, go Manny, please ask Dave if the Thunderbirds will be able to fly tomorrow for graduation at the Air Force Academy.
That's a good question. We do have a chance. Here's the setup for someone. Do you know what time that is?
Manny, I don't know.
Sure, I don't know. I don't know if a rod can look that up quickly. Here's the thing I'll tell you, just quickly put tomorrow. If this helps your listener. The chance for thunderstorms is already moving in this evening. Okay, the chances are going to linger overnight.
Nine am is the Yeah, nine am is the ceremony.
There is a possibility there could still be some showers around them arow morning. That's what I was going to say. We have one of these situations where you know, we rarely get rain overnight. There's going to be some lingering
pockets of showers overnight. I don't know that the cloud deck will be low enough to prevent them from flying, but there could be some wet weather for graduation down there to the south early in the morning, as we'll have these kind of lingering morning showers before the sky start to break and we get some clear later in the afternoon. So I can't speak to specifically the cloud deck and what they're you know, what they're lowist is
for flying. I'll keep my fingers crossed that it's good and everybody can enjoy graduation.
All right, that's a lot.
That's a wrap there, Dave Fraser from Vox thirty one, you can always and you know what ay Ride and I talked about right before you came on the air, just like a little free plug. We were talking about how we always use the Pinpoint Weather app because it is the most accurate weather app period for a local forecast. So if you are looking for the local forecast, the
Pinpoint Weather app from Box thirty one. And I have five weather apps on my phone, although one of them is just an obscene weather app where it gives you the forecast in dirty language.
I moved everyone off my homepage except for this one.
Now, yeah, the only one on my homepage is the Pinpoint Weather app.
So there you go.
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With that, all right, man, have a.
Great bud, all right.
That's is Dave Fraser.