The Plain English Campaign objected to the Met Office's use of the phrase " probability of precipitation " in 2011.
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In fact, the probability of precipitation east of the Rockies is less than 15 percent for the next 24 hours.
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The Canadian UMOS system generates a 2-day forecast of temperatures, wind speed and direction and probability of precipitation ( POP ).
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:Precipitation is bad example because the probability of precipitation on Tuesday is generally not independent of the probability of precipitation on Wednesday.
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:Precipitation is bad example because the probability of precipitation on Tuesday is generally not independent of the probability of precipitation on Wednesday.
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In 2011 PEC criticised the Met Office for using the phrase " probabilities of precipitation " instead of " rain is likely ".
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Suppose that the computer finds 100 such days . If measurable rain occurred on 30 of those days, then the probability of precipitation on the day in question is precisely 30 percent.
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Additionally, gridded guidance for the forecast period is issued for the following fields : maximum / minimum temperature grids, twelve-hour probability of precipitation grids, as well as derived dewpoint temperature, cloud cover, precipitation type, and wind speed / direction grids at a horizontal resolution.
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Statements of probability of precipitation are only an approximation and cannot be considered precise, since they leave open the questions of how much rain is meant by " some " rain, and how large an area is meant when it refers to " somewhere ."
