On 25/07/2017 12:22, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Tue, 25 Jul 2017 12:03:34 +0100, whisky-dave
wrote:

On Thursday, 20 July 2017 22:24:22 UTC+1, bert wrote:
In article ,
whisky-dave writes
On Thursday, 20 July 2017 15:39:29 UTC+1, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
whisky-dave expressed precisely :
When they explained it on the TV durign a weather documentary
they said it
wass the chance of rain andn showed how they calculated it.
In waether there';s a few things that can happen due to changign
Highs and
lows and various 'gulf' type streams the forcaster can guess
which will
effect which but it's a probabilty rather than a known outcome, so
they use
the % term.

I suppose they could use odds like bookies.

I was wondering about that yesterday, reading the local forecast. It
was showing various percentages for each hour, 20%, 30%, 40%, 70%.
Even
threats of thunderstorms. Does the first 20% mean that there is a 20%
risk of some rain within that hour, or something else?

I guess that what it means, perhaps some may think that it means
there's a 20% chance of rain in their lifetime, how anyone would come
to that conclusion escapes me, but there's some on here that think the
new doctor who is a women ;-)


She's reproduced already?

No the way she parked the Tardis !

https://youtu.be/LTKFaBvW6oc

Years ago I was outside working on my car when a wagon pulled up to
collect a neighbour's car. The road is narrow and nothing could get
through while is was there. At that point a woman stopped her car
alongside mine, got out and asked if I'd reverse her car for her because
she couldn't do it for the distance required. She looked a bit panicky
when I reversed it at speed for the whole length of the road.

SteveW