Humanizing Rules by Christian Hunt

Author:Christian Hunt [Hunt, Christian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781394187294
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2023-02-06T00:00:00+00:00

Weather Forecasts

If like me, you find yourself watching weather forecasts, only to find you've not really paid much attention to what you saw, then there may be a good reason for it. In my case, it's obviously because I'm getting older and have a ridiculously short attention span. In your case, it might be because you're being presented with a lot of information that is sometimes hard to compute.

Usually, we watch a weather forecast for a particular reason. Most often to know which clothes we need to wear, but people with hobbies or jobs that are weather‐dependent will have other reasons. Yet very often the forecast is often overly technical or general in nature. I've lost count of the number of times I've been given a forecast for a big city like London and then gone out, only to discover that there are ten different microclimates I'm going to experience in just a small part of that city. As a result, I tend to pay little attention to the weather forecasts.

Very often, this isn't helped by the fact the weather is presented in terms that make very little sense to me. I can barely cope with temperatures that are presented to me in Celsius, let alone when I see a US forecast in Fahrenheit. So I was delighted to come across something called the “Trash Can Wind Meter”,3 which is used to make wind strength more salient to TV viewers. It does this by using a scale that doesn't require you to be a weather expert. Rather than using “wind force” numbers, the different categories are:

Lid flipped open.

Tipped over.

In the neighbour's yard.

Down the street.

I've lost my trash can.

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