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To: keokalani'nui who wrote (865)	1/12/2006 12:46:20 AM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1336

I got this email today: From a blog at the P-I "the weather report is not redundant. I have been keeping track. Look at all the different ways they've been predicting rain. It's almost a poem. Can anyone tell me the difference between a chance of rain and a chance of showers?" PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS. PARTLY CLOUDY WITH SHOWERS LIKELY. CLOUDY WITH SHOWERS LIKELY. RAIN BECOMING LIKELY. RAIN LIKELY. RAIN. CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF RAIN. RAIN LIKELY. CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF RAIN. MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS. PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS RAIN AT TIMES. CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS. MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF RAIN. CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF RAIN. CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS. CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF RAIN. RAIN LIKELY. MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF RAIN. MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS. PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS CLOUDY WITH RAIN AT TIMES IN THE LATE MORNING AND AFTERNOON. RAIN TURNING TO SHOWERS EARLY. MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF RAIN LATE IN THE AFTERNOON. RAIN LIKELY. MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF RAIN. RAIN LIKELY. SHOWERS LIKELY. MOSTLY CLOUDY. A CHANCE OF SHOWERS IN THE MORNING... THEN A CHANCE OF RAIN IN THE AFTERNOON. CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF RAIN THIS MORNING...THEN RAIN LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON RAIN DEVELOPING RAIN...BREEZY SHOWERS LIKELY RAIN...BREEZY One of the more embarrassing things about working at the NWS, is the ALL CAP SHOUT FORECAST. That, and the fact that we don't actually communicate much of what we see in the models. Useful information might be which day will be the crappiest, the windiest? To some degree we do that in the marine forecast for the mariners, but our generic public forecasts are shameful. Although, the teevee guys are useless too.