{"id":179530,"date":"2024-05-21T18:23:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T23:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=179530"},"modified":"2024-06-21T06:32:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T11:32:56","slug":"probability-and-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/probability-and-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Probability and weather"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sunday afternoon the weatherman declared that there was a 100% chance of rain that evening. As the afternoon became evening, that chance steadily diminished, and I figured we’d be lucky to get a trace of moisture. When the probability dipped down to 38% and it looked like everything was indeed going to miss us, I heard thunder. Then rain came, arriving horizonally at 86 mph.<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> The wind uprooted trees all over town and snapped telephone poles. I was lucky and my place got almost no damage, but where the ash tree was that I used to see out the window while I sat at my desk is now just blue sky. The neighborhood did lose electricity for a day and a half \u2014 not surprising when the poles supporting power lines are broken into two or more pieces \u2014 but it’s back now. I was impressed with how quickly the worst of the mess on the street was cleared up. Yesterday morning, a fleet of pickup trucks from a nearby town brought a crew of about two dozen young men, who cleared the street and took chainsaws to the fallen trees and branches, leaving the debris neatly piled to be hauled away.<\/p>\n

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Stay far away from old cottonwood trees during stormy weather.<\/p>\n

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(The pictures were taken at a park at the other side of town but are representative of the storm damage.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunday afternoon the weatherman declared that there was a 100% chance of rain that evening. As the afternoon became evening, that chance steadily diminished, and I figured we’d be lucky to get a trace of moisture. When the probability dipped down to 38% and it looked like everything was indeed going to miss us, I … Continue reading “Probability and weather”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-gallery","category-real-life-adventures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-KHE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179530"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180141,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179530\/revisions\/180141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}