On Nov 7, 8:25 pm, "David Haggas" wrote:
"Graham P Davis" wrote in ...





Alan White wrote:

On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:19:29 +0000, Graham P Davis
wrote:

The use of "scattered showers" was banned from weather forecasts over
forty years ago because it is a meaningless phrase

It still means a lot more to me than '30% chance of rain'.

Maybe, but it still means nothing and should never have been allowed to
return to weather forecasts. There are plenty of more meaningful phrases
to
use such as "a few showers", "frequent showers", "isolated showers", etc.

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Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman, not newsboy.
"What use is happiness? It can't buy you money." [Chic Murray, 1919-85]

Other favourites seem to be sharp showers and weather fronts- Hide quoted text -

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Sharp showers is not the worst description I've heard from the
BBC but its repetitive usage tends to grate a bit especially as *all*
showers are now "sharp" or "ber-lustery". "Weather fronts" on the
other hand is pure baby-talk and assumes that terms like "warm" and
"cold" and - wait for it - "occluded" are a bit too austere and grown-
up for us all.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.