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Article #486Re: Big Blizzard next Tuesday??????
From: Dennis Rodgers
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 00:00
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|> |> Hmm. Part of the science of meteorology is communicating a forecast/information |> to an ignorant public (or colleague). If colorful language helps, what's |> wrong with it? |> |> Scott |> -- |> Scott S. Lindstrom | The only other sound's |> scottl@ssec.wisc.edu | the sweep of easy |> http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~scottl/homepage1.html | wind and downy flake There is a distinction between meteorological terminology and weather jargon. What's wrong with it? I guess that I'd have to answer that a phrase like "Panhandle Hooker" conveys very little real information to the "ignorant" public. It also borders on sensationalism, which is what I find less than useful. I don't have a problem with "colorful" language. I do count among my pet peeves the use of ill-defined jargon. Jargon isolates the layman from the science. IMHO -- Dennis Mark Rodgers NOAA ERL Forecast Systems Laboratory 325 Broadway R/E/FS5 Boulder, CO 80303-3328 voice: 303.497.6933 fax: 303.497.6301 email: rodgers@fsl.noaa.gov
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fa03c,8bc63379825e6452 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa03c,public X-Google-Thread: 1130cb,8bc63379825e6452 X-Google-Attributes: gid1130cb,public X-Google-Thread: 10a6e7,8bc63379825e6452 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a6e7,public X-Google-Thread: f765b,8bc63379825e6452 X-Google-Attributes: gidf765b,public X-Google-Thread: 108c6c,8bc63379825e6452 X-Google-Attributes: gid108c6c,public X-Google-Thread: 103dd4,8bc63379825e6452 X-Google-Attributes: gid103dd4,public X-Google-Thread: 1093dc,8bc63379825e6452 X-Google-Attributes: gid1093dc,public X-Google-Thread: 112f4a,8bc63379825e6452 X-Google-Attributes: gid112f4a,public From: rodgers@seminole.fsl.noaa.gov (Dennis Rodgers) Subject: Re: Big Blizzard next Tuesday?????? Date: 1998/02/17 Message-ID: <6ccj0k$ahc$1@mwrns.noaa.gov> X-Deja-AN: 325934654 Distribution: world References: <mike1-1202981748180001@13-106.dynamic.visi.com> <6c4q0j$4j1$1@mwrns.noaa.gov> <34f0ae9a.418702458@allnews.infi.net> <6ccd4t$8cm$1@mwrns.noaa.gov> <6ccf21$qh9@spool.cs.wisc.edu> Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder Newsgroups: mn.general,wi.general,ia.weather,ia.talk,ne.general,sci.geo.meteorology,bit.listserv.wx-chase,bit.listserv.wx-talk