Alan White wrote:

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 17:39:26 -0000, "David Haggas"
wrote:

The local presenters have email!

Looks like we are in for some cautious changes:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770

From the above URL:-
quote
It means phrases such as 'scattered showers' could be ditched and
replaced with the more mathematical '30 per cent chance of rain'.
/quote

'Scattered showers' means a lot more to me than '30 per cent chance of
rain'.


The use of "scattered showers" was banned from weather forecasts over forty
years ago because it is a meaningless phrase. Are the showers thickly or
thinly scattered?

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