"JPG" wrote in message
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A perfect example of why forecasters have to be careful about language.
On
Radio 4 this morning at 0730 the presenters (James Naughtie and Edward
Sturton)
had an amusing exchange over what they evidently thought was an
inappropriate
and unintentionally comedic use of the expression "Rain from the west
will
decay". In the context and bearing in mind the audience the word "decay"
for
rain decreasing in intensity sounded vaguely ludicrous.

Professional meteorologists may talk about decaying rain *areas* but
decaying
*rain* ? What's wrong with rain "dying out" .

from what people have been saying, in the South it isn't just dying out, it
is positively extinct!

Jim Webster

JPG