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Old 09-27-2023, 05:06 PM
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Originally Posted by retiredguy123 View Post
Every morning, I check the Weather Channel app to see if it is going to rain. Today, it said that there was a 71 percent chance for rain at 5 pm. But, now, at 3 pm, the chance for rain at 5 pm is only 40 percent. I understand that a forecast can change, but this pattern occurs almost every day. The chance for rain at 5 pm is very high in the early morning, but then it decreases as the time gets closer to 5 pm. It almost never increases. It happens so often that I believe that the forecasters are intentionally publishing a higher chance for rain in the morning than the data actually suggests. Has anyone else noticed this trend and is there a logical explanation?
Same here, sprinkling this morning, wasn't feeling great, cancelled golf due to large cloud on the radar moving towards TV. . . no rain since 8 AM. . wife is irritated that I cancelled for rain and none happened. .

that forecast also caused my sprinkler to weather delay for rain most of the summer.

Rain actually came for a few minutes at 6PM. . . light and not the flood TWC was predicting. .