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[2ffat]

I received this in my daily weather report:

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AccuWeather 7-Day Forecast
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TODAY
Thundery rains this morning
H 67

Does this mean rain with thunder or heavy rains that sound like thunder?

Anyone else heard of a "new term" from a professional source?


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[sleipnir214]

Anyone else heard of a "new term" from a professional source?

Oh, sure. My software periodically fetches for me an RSS feed from wordspy.com. Today WordSpy told me about the term climate port, which defines the term as "Extreme or alarmist language or images used to describe the current or future effects of man-made climate change."

http://www.wordspy.com/words/climateporn.asp

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[Lunatic]

We might need a moderator in this thread... Sleipnir, I think Freud is having a field day ;p (did a quadruple take to make sure I was reading that correct).

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[rjoubert]

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[sleipnir214]

I'm so very sorry. My post should have been talking about "climate por[red]n[/red]"



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[Lunatic]

Oh. Seems to me that definition is anti-climatic given the words it uses.

I don't understand how any definition that is used to describe a process to scare people would be used with the word 'porn'. Must have been coined by a right-winger.

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[sleipnir214]

Lunatic:

Must have been coined by a right-winger.

Not according to the article. It reads, in part:

Recently, a left-leaning think tank in Great Britain came up with a good way to describe the hysterical rhetoric used by many environmentalists, media and politicians to hype the threat of global warming.

After analyzing hundreds of media articles, news clips and television ads on the issue, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) dubbed it "climate porn." This means using apocalyptic language to describe the challenges posed by climate change.

Climate porn, the IPPR argued, amounts to a "counsel of despair," making the public feel helpless and insignificant.
—Lorrie Goldstein, "The new pornographers," The Toronto Sun, January 7, 2007

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[Golom]

I don't understand how any definition that is used to describe a process to scare people would be used with the word 'porn'.

One of the several definitions from Mirriam-Webster OnLine

Pornography - the depiction of acts in a sensational manner so as to arouse a quick intense emotional reaction

 

[sleipnir214]

Yeah, the word has changed somewhat from its Greek roots that mean "writing about prostitutes".



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[MallardVHS]

Must have been coined by a right-winger

Most "right-wingers" I know just fly in circles.



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[donbott]

MallardVHS

Reminds me of a species of American duck known for their public promiscuity, from which we got the saying "Birds of a feather....."

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[stackdump]

My local paper gives the forecast for tomorrow as;

Possibility of scattered showers with sunny intervals. Winds light to moderate, gusting in places. Sea state variable. Temperatures 6C to 12C.

They could print this same forecast every day! Guess it just needs Temperature between freeze and boil, slight chance of an ice age or a drought. to make it cover all eventualities

 

[Lunatic]

Stackdump

Don't be too hard on them, it is March. My senior year in high school we had a day in March that had rain, hail, snow, and 60 degrees and sunny all in a 3 hour span (actually the 4 of those randomly rotated every 15 minutes for those 3 hours). How do you write a short blurb explaining that?

Plus, I'd like to know where you grew up to think 6C (43F) was freezing? ;-p

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[mjldba]

Winds light to moderate, gusting in places. Sea state variable. Temperatures 6C to 12C.

You forgot to add "periods of darkness followed by periods of sunshine".

 

[RodKnowlton]

The weather's so variable here in Oklahoma that when I was visiting Boulder, Colorado and saw a forecast that said "a thunderstorm this afternoon", I had to do a double take.

I'd never seen the singular used in a forecast.

Sure enough, that afternoon there was a thunderstorm.

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[stackdump]

I experienced the same thing in Florida, right on 3pm (as predicted by the radio station) splosh!, a deluge for about 15 minutes. Then the sun came back out, dried it all up and you'd never know it had happened.

I have an uncle that lived on Sarawak for a few years, working on a construction project. Apparently you could set your watch by the start of the afternoon monsoon.

Lunatic, guess your forecast would need to be something like;
Forecast for tomorrow: Variable

 

[CajunCenturion]

One of our local weathermen refer to that type of afternoon shower as "splash and dash".

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[donbott]

I Oregon you learn to interpret the weather report. For eight months partly cloudy, chance of showers, rain possible, and almost ant other forecast mean rain. Sunny and clear means chance of rain.

Today is gorgous

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[stackdump]

Oregon sounds like Scotland, where the annual climate pattern is 9 months of winter followed by 3 months of bad weather.

I got to visit Scotland just one time a long while back (on a tour of scotch whisky distilleries!, fantastic!). The weather was wonderful every day. So I'm not sure the climate is that bad or maybe the scotch had more effect on me than I thought. (Which might also explain my sighting of the Loch Ness monster, which was especially odd as I was in a bar in Glasgow at the time).

 

[Lunatic]

Stackdump... Oregon isn't quite like that... Western Oregon is more like 9/10 months (in a 'normal' year, they've been pretty warm years recently) of late-fall/early-spring wind, rain, and clouds with sporadic (some years none, some years a couple of weeks) snowstorms followed by 2/3 months of 90F+ and sunny. Which doesn't sound all that bad except when you're used to 45F, wet, and windy for 9/10 months, 90F and dry is hot. Plus we're all so pale from the previous 9 months of overcast skies that we occasionally spontaneously combust.

Eastern Oregon is a whole other beast. And the further east you go the crazier it gets. Its mostly high desert so you can see 0F and blizzards in the winter to 105F in the summer in places like Pendelton or Baker City.

Dang, talking about Oregon has made me homesick.

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