What Does "A 50% Chance of Rain" Actually Mean?
Your friendly local weather person says there s a 10% chance it will rain today, so you throw on your flip-flops and head out to enjoy a beautiful day. Next thing you know, you re running through puddles, trying to get out of a torrential downpour. Bad luck or bad weather person? Hosted by: Michael Aranda ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters—Alexander Wadsworth, Kevin Bealer, Mark Terrio-Cameron, KatieMarie Magnone, Patrick Merrithew, Charles Southerland, Fatima Iqbal, Sultan Alkhulaifi, Tim Curwick, Scott Satovsky Jr, Philippe von Bergen, Bella Nash, Chris Peters, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Charles George ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.weather.gov/ffc/pop https://weather.com/news/news/heres-why-it-rained-when-your-forecast-said-10-percent-20130816 https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2015/11/27/do-you-or-your-meteorologist-understand-what-40-chance-of-rain-means/#e0adca725d56 http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/WAF-D-15-0058.1
