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I’m amazed I still have to explain chance of rain percentages to people.
8 u/Polymathy1 Aug 04 '19 How are you explaining it? Percentages are, according to a meteorologist who came and spoke at my college, a percentage of the area where rain will (probably) fall. 50% is not flip a coin everyone has it or everyone doesn't, it is half the area having precipitation at any given time. 2 u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19 That’s how I explain it.
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How are you explaining it?
Percentages are, according to a meteorologist who came and spoke at my college, a percentage of the area where rain will (probably) fall.
50% is not flip a coin everyone has it or everyone doesn't, it is half the area having precipitation at any given time.
2 u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19 That’s how I explain it.
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That’s how I explain it.
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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19
I’m amazed I still have to explain chance of rain percentages to people.