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The weather has changed like 25 times over the past 4 days. I have been checking it constantly. Yesterday it said rain for the week and then it showed few showers and nothing but sun. Now it showes scatter and isolated t-storms, which means if any, they want last long and the sun will be right behind it. Usually when the rain comes into panama, it comes right up off the coast and blows over pretty quick. So no worries here, lets all say screw the weather and just have some damn fun.
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National Weather Service forecasters will forecast "isolated" thunderstorms when we are pretty certain that storms are going to form, but we only expect them to affect about 10% of the area. In other words, 90% of the area won't get wet.
Just so you know, when our forecast says... "Widely scattered thunderstorms", it means 20% of the area will be affected. "Scattered thunderstorms" means 30-50% of the area will be affected. "Thunderstorms likely" means 60-70% of the area will be affected. and if we just say "Thunderstorms", we expect that 80-100% of the area will see rain. Problems arise, however, when that isolated thunderstorm happens to develop over the most populated city in the area. When that happens, most of the people get wet, even though only a small area received rain. So to many people, forecasters are "wrong" even when we are "right"! Hope this helps! |
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