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Until weather reporting became mostly automated, most news agencies had a policy of never reporting a chance of rain as being less than 20%. If it was 8%, it wa
by Mountain_Skies 4y ago
Until weather reporting became mostly automated, most news agencies had a policy of never reporting a chance of rain as being less than 20%. If it was 8%, it was always rounded up to 20%. If you remember seeing "20% of rain" excessively most of your life, this is why. Some of them still do this, especially with on the air reports by a human.
- dtech 4y agoThat actually sounds like good practice, due to humans not having good intuition about chance. Most people will interpret "8% of rain" as "it's not going to rain", and then be mad at the "inaccurate" weather report if it rains the next day.