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"Decent chance of showers ..."

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oldmanradio

"Decent chance of showers ... "

What does that mean to you? It tells me little.

I guess it's the opposite of an indecent chance of showers. ::)

Mark Watkins, the KRLD news anchor, said it twice between 5 and 5:30 p.m. after traffic on the 8s which was always two minutes late.

And the traffic reporters on that station continue to say traffic is "moving slow".

Slowly is the word ... an adverb which describes moving. You learn it in elementary school or junior high.

Tony
Tony Lyndell Williams
 
oldmanradio said:
And the traffic reporters on that station continue to say traffic is "moving slow".

Slowly is the word ... an adverb which describes moving. You learn it in elementary school or junior high.
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Save the adverb!

Don't even get me started on some of the horrendous crap that passes as copy these days. When did it become ok for ad copy to be written first-person? Unless it's a paid endorsement, copy should always be third person.
 
oldmanradio said:
"Decent chance of showers ... "

What does that mean to you? It tells me little.

I guess it's the opposite of an indecent chance of showers. ::)

Mark Watkins, the KRLD news anchor, said it twice between 5 and 5:30 p.m. after traffic on the 8s which was always two minutes late.
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Weathermen have been trying to get away from using actual percentages in forecasts for at least 20 years. The reason is that a percentage in meteorology doesn't mean the same thing that a percentage in statistics means. They feel most of their viewers will be misled if they hear "50% chance of rain." In statistics, that means it's as likely to rain as not, and that's what most viewers will think. However, in meteorology, a "50% chance of rain" is guaranteeing that half of the station's viewing area will see rain while the other half is guaranteed to stay dry.
 
At this time of the year any chance of cool, refreshing showers works for me.
 
oldmanradio said:
"Decent chance of showers ... " What does that mean to you? It tells me little...
Mark Watkins, the KRLD news anchor, said it twice between 5 and 5:30 p.m. after traffic on the 8s which was always two minutes late.
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But at least it was a live voice giving some semblance of (hopefully) the latest
weather forecast from the NWS or whatever service KRLD uses, as opposed to
a voicetrack made hours earlier or even the day before (with no current stats
of course).

New Hogan slogan:
"When you think of voicetracked weather, you think of Cheap Channel Grand Rapids!" ::)
 
According to Webster:

Decent: adequate; fair; passable: a decent wage.

So he means a fair chance of showers.

And no, the opposite isn't an unfair chance of showers.
 
Kent said:
Weathermen have been trying to get away from using actual percentages in forecasts for at least 20 years. The reason is that a percentage in meteorology doesn't mean the same thing that a percentage in statistics means. They feel most of their viewers will be misled if they hear "50% chance of rain." In statistics, that means it's as likely to rain as not, and that's what most viewers will think. However, in meteorology, a "50% chance of rain" is guaranteeing that half of the station's viewing area will see rain while the other half is guaranteed to stay dry.
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No sir. The percentage is a coverage area prediction. Let's say there's a 20% chance of rain, for 10 counties. The percent chance means that 20% of the population within those 10 counties, have a chance to actually get rain.
 
scrtr84 said:
Kent said:
Weathermen have been trying to get away from using actual percentages in forecasts for at least 20 years. The reason is that a percentage in meteorology doesn't mean the same thing that a percentage in statistics means. They feel most of their viewers will be misled if they hear "50% chance of rain." In statistics, that means it's as likely to rain as not, and that's what most viewers will think. However, in meteorology, a "50% chance of rain" is guaranteeing that half of the station's viewing area will see rain while the other half is guaranteed to stay dry.
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No sir. The percentage is a coverage area prediction. Let's say there's a 20% chance of rain, for 10 counties. The percent chance means that 20% of the population within those 10 counties, have a chance to actually get rain.
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Crap.... I gotta stop posting after just waking up. :D
 
scrtr84 said:
Kent said:
Weathermen have been trying to get away from using actual percentages in forecasts for at least 20 years. The reason is that a percentage in meteorology doesn't mean the same thing that a percentage in statistics means. They feel most of their viewers will be misled if they hear "50% chance of rain." In statistics, that means it's as likely to rain as not, and that's what most viewers will think. However, in meteorology, a "50% chance of rain" is guaranteeing that half of the station's viewing area will see rain while the other half is guaranteed to stay dry.
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No sir. The percentage is a coverage area prediction. Let's say there's a 20% chance of rain, for 10 counties. The percent chance means that 20% of the population within those 10 counties, have a chance to actually get rain.
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My head hurts.....
 
Kent said:
oldmanradio said:
"Decent chance of showers ... "

What does that mean to you? It tells me little.

I guess it's the opposite of an indecent chance of showers. ::)

Mark Watkins, the KRLD news anchor, said it twice between 5 and 5:30 p.m. after traffic on the 8s which was always two minutes late.
Click to expand...

Weathermen have been trying to get away from using actual percentages in forecasts for at least 20 years. The reason is that a percentage in meteorology doesn't mean the same thing that a percentage in statistics means. They feel most of their viewers will be misled if they hear "50% chance of rain." In statistics, that means it's as likely to rain as not, and that's what most viewers will think. However, in meteorology, a "50% chance of rain" is guaranteeing that half of the station's viewing area will see rain while the other half is guaranteed to stay dry.
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Well, nothing is ever guaranteed as far as Texas weather.

However, a "decent chance" of rain is so vague as to be almost meaningless.

Tony
Tony Lyndell Williams
 
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