rain Saturday?

Says rain Saturday now on accuweather, 30% chance. Any insight weather people?

I'm not a weather man but i did hear Isaac was supposed to be sending rain up to the midwest, weather.com says only a 10% chance of rain for Saturday though

The latest HPC prediction shows the rain skirting by just to the SE of Ames.

HPC Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts - Day 3

As long as it brings some cooler weather, but not the rain. I will be happy. It can rain today, tomorrow, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, but not Saturday.

Whenever someone refers to a less than 40% chance of rain by saying "Oh, its supposed to rain" I want to kick their chest in.

Do you know what "supposed to" means? It means that there's a very high likelihood that the incident will occur. When there is a 30% chance of rain, that means there is a 70% chance of no rain. It seems that people generally understand the idea of probability, but just completely lose their ******* mind when it comes to weather. How do you not realize that even at 30% chance of rain it is more than TWICE as likely to not rain?

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Originally Posted by Al_4_State

Whenever someone refers to a less than 40% chance of rain by saying "Oh, its supposed to rain" I want to kick their chest in.

Do you know what "supposed to" means? It means that there's a very high likelihood that the incident will occur. When there is a 30% chance of rain, that means there is a 70% chance of no rain. It seems that people generally understand the idea of probability, but just completely lose their ******* mind when it comes to weather. How do you not realize that even at 30% chance of rain it is more than TWICE as likely to not rain?

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So you're saying, there's a chance?

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Originally Posted by Bret44

So you're saying, there's a chance?

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My rant was more directed to society in general than the OP. Although he did say "rain saturday" before prefacing it with the chance percentage.

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Originally Posted by Al_4_State

My rant was more directed to society in general than the OP. Although he did say "rain saturday" before prefacing it with the chance percentage.

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I just saw a good chance to quote "Dumb and Dumber." So I took, if you will, a chance.

Storm still moving pretty slow, my expert analysis is that we are in the clear.

between the months of may to september here it's a 30% chance to rain everyday

it rains everyday for at least an hour

it rains 30% of the time, 100% of the time.

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Originally Posted by Cychotiic

Says rain Saturday now on accuweather, 30% chance. Any insight weather people?

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So that would mean 70% chance of NO rain....those odds are better

My meterologist says it's 50-50 right now, if that helps...

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Originally Posted by 2020cy

Storm still moving pretty slow, my expert analysis is that we are in the clear.

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Tracking to rain in IC and not Ames....

accuweather now says 18%. Not going to see any rain, maybe some clouds, but no rain.

My unprofessional opinion says:
I think most of the rain will stay in SE Iowa. TS Isaac is moving slow as hell right now and losing a lot of strength as it moves, so whatever falls in SE Iowa will be light. Ames will stay dry with partly to mostly cloudy skies. It should be a great day for tailgating. I'll be disappointed if I don't see you all out there by 8am.