# Today's weather forecast

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-weather-forecast/402862
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 5, 2007, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-weather-forecast/402862 "2007-05-05T07:36:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2007, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-weather-forecast/402862/1 "2007-05-05T07:36:40Z")

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> [@Local news site](#):
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> Partly cloudy. Humid, chance for isolated pop-ups during the afternoon.

How does a meteorologist go about predicting the chances of a giant Cingular ad appearing in the sky?

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### Author: ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2007, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-weather-forecast/402862/2 "2007-05-05T14:04:25Z")

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[QUOTE=Marlitharn]  
How does a meteorologist go about predicting the chances of a giant Cingular ad appearing in the sky?  
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How do you know he/she is not predicting a chance of Pr0n ads?

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### Author: ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2007, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-weather-forecast/402862/3 "2007-05-05T16:57:58Z")

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[QUOTE=swampbear]  
How do you know he/she is not predicting a chance of Pr0n ads?  
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Hey, it’s raining! Eeewwww, that’s not rain! :eek: