{"id":5342,"date":"2015-11-30T12:29:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T17:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=5342"},"modified":"2015-11-30T12:29:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T17:29:46","slug":"what-does-a-40-percent-chance-of-rain-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/11\/what-does-a-40-percent-chance-of-rain-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"What does a 40 percent chance of rain mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With our rain chances on the rise for the next few days, you might have heard your local forecaster talk about the probability of precipitation or PoP. \u00a0But what does a 40% chance of rain really mean? \u00a0It turns out that not even meteorologists agree on a definition. \u00a0Check out Dr. Marshall Shepherd&#8217;s blog from <em>Forbes.com<\/em> on some recent research activities at UGA on this topic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/marshallshepherd\/2015\/11\/27\/do-you-or-your-meteorologist-understand-what-40-chance-of-rain-means\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1522\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1522\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/rain-in-south-africa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1522\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/rain-in-south-africa-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/rain-in-south-africa-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/rain-in-south-africa-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/rain-in-south-africa.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With our rain chances on the rise for the next few days, you might have heard your local forecaster talk about the probability of precipitation or PoP. \u00a0But what does a 40% chance of rain really mean? \u00a0It turns out that not even meteorologists agree on a definition. \u00a0Check out Dr. Marshall Shepherd&#8217;s blog from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5342"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5360,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5342\/revisions\/5360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}