{"id":654,"date":"2006-09-15T08:48:57","date_gmt":"2006-09-15T14:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=654"},"modified":"2020-01-03T11:54:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T16:54:41","slug":"how-to-interpret-a-weather-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/how-to-interpret-a-weather-forecast\/","title":{"rendered":"How to interpret a weather forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. Select a source. Say, the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p>2. Find the forecast for your region.<\/p>\n<p>3. Read the text.<\/p>\n<p>4. Plan for the exact opposite. If the text says, &#8220;90 percent chance of rain,&#8221; think &#8220;hooray! let&#8217;s go on a picnic!&#8221; If it says, &#8220;partially cloudy,&#8221; think &#8220;man the lifeboats.&#8221; If it says &#8220;thunderstorms likely,&#8221; go ahead, run outside to fly your metal kite, you&#8217;ll be perfectly fine.<\/p>\n<p>(Can you tell I&#8217;m a bit disgusted with the accuracy of the predictions lately???)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Select a source. Say, the National Weather Service. 2. Find the forecast for your region. 3. Read the text. 4. Plan for the exact opposite. If the text says, &#8220;90 percent chance of rain,&#8221; think &#8220;hooray! let&#8217;s go on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/how-to-interpret-a-weather-forecast\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6088,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/6088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}