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Old July 22nd 13, 10:44 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Stephen Davenport Stephen Davenport is offline
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On Monday, July 22, 2013 6:17:11 PM UTC+1, General wrote:
"Stephen Davenport" wrote in message

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It's for a low probability high impact event.

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OK, thanks. But in that case, I might be tempted to quibble with the way

that the probabilities are being interpreted. I tend to think of 95% as

beyond all reasonable doubt (to use a legal analogy). Therefore, 'beyond all

reasonable doubt' we're simply not going to see any significant rain before

midnight (p0.05). So I'd argue that no warning is justified. A low

probability event might be in the 10-15% band, which is not being forecast.