[ChicagoConservative27]

60 percent chance?? Oh noes! Raid your local Walmart now!!! (S)

[stanne]

They’re very hopeful

[alancarp]

Here's the map of what they're describing above... and BTW... those percentages are almost always underdone. Anybody on the western/north-western side of the Gulf of Mexico has already seen over a foot of rain from that irritant storm.

[fruser1]

Lol, if it weren’t for this, the headline would be “Ocean still wet and days getting shorter mean higher chance for destructive storm”

I have relatives in hurricane territory. Anything under cat 3 is generally ignored. Maybe they pick some extra water up at the store on the way home or something.

[rarestia]

It’s absurd. Local media is in fear frenzy mode. If you’re in Florida or the Gulf Coast and you’re not aware it’s peak hurricane season, you’re an idiot.

[metmom]

Eh, about half.

IOW, it might happen, it might not.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

Whether it is the Globull Cooling, Globull Warming, Climate Change, Climate Crisis Hoax, or the regular meteorologist, the phraseology is all the same:

Maybe
Perhaps
Chance of
Partly

I lived in an area where, for months, the daily, weekly weather report simply interchanged Partly Cloudy and Partly Sunny.

Now, for ‘possible’ rain and such, I just use the local doppler radar. I can figure it out just fine.