Author Topic: Apparently the term "Advisory" causes significant confusion  (Read 1596 times)

WLJ

  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 27,841
  • On Patrol In The Epsilon Eridani System
According to the National Weather Service

Quote
No sooner than 2024, the NWS will no longer issue “Advisories.” Their research found that the term “Advisory” caused significant confusion and was often confused with a “Watch.” To avoid misinterpretations and confusion, the NWS decided to get rid of Advisories.

Wonder if the same people confused by 1st grade math nowadays are the same ones confused by the term advisory?

Behind the Forecast: Why the National Weather Service is eliminating ‘Advisories’
https://www.wave3.com/2021/03/12/behind-forecast-why-national-weather-service-is-eliminating-advisories/

"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us".
- Calvin and Hobbes

Kingcreek

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 3,470
Re: Apparently the term "Advisory" causes significant confusion
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2021, 11:49:24 AM »
The nanny state produces dummies.
What we have here is failure to communicate.

MechAg94

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 33,619
Re: Apparently the term "Advisory" causes significant confusion
« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2021, 11:53:56 AM »
I was wondering when they changed that.  My confusion was from the change, not from misunderstanding the original wording.
“It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.”  ― Calvin Coolidge

K Frame

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 44,007
  • I Am Inimical
Re: Apparently the term "Advisory" causes significant confusion
« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2021, 12:09:38 PM »
New rankings...

You're good.

Uh oh...

YOU'RE *expletive deleted*ed!
Carbon Monoxide, sucking the life out of idiots, 'tards, and fools since man tamed fire.

Nick1911

  • Administrator
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8,485
Re: Apparently the term "Advisory" causes significant confusion
« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2021, 12:12:28 PM »
That said, I always thought Watch vs Warning was somewhat confusing.

Brad Johnson

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 18,030
  • Witty, charming, handsome, and completely insane.
Re: Apparently the term "Advisory" causes significant confusion
« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2021, 12:39:03 PM »
That said, I always thought Watch vs Warning was somewhat confusing.

???

Brad
It's all about the pancakes, people.
"And he thought cops wouldn't chase... a STOLEN DONUT TRUCK???? That would be like Willie Nelson ignoring a pickup full of weed."
-HankB

RoadKingLarry

  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 21,841
Re: Apparently the term "Advisory" causes significant confusion
« Reply #6 on: March 12, 2021, 12:44:48 PM »
That said, I always thought Watch vs Warning was somewhat confusing.

Here in Oklahoma, when we get a tornado warning is when we go out to watch them.
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.

Samuel Adams

Nick1911

  • Administrator
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8,485
Re: Apparently the term "Advisory" causes significant confusion
« Reply #7 on: March 12, 2021, 01:04:44 PM »
???

Brad

Yea, I know.  It makes sense if I think about it, but something in the nomenclature isn't intuitive for some reason.

Jim147

  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 7,587
Re: Apparently the term "Advisory" causes significant confusion
« Reply #8 on: March 12, 2021, 03:29:43 PM »
Here in Oklahoma, when we get a tornado warning is when we go out to watch them.


When we get a warning it's already been in the ground for 20+ miles.
Sometimes we carry more weight then we owe.
And sometimes goes on and on and on.

BAH-WEEP-GRAAAGHNAH WHEEP NI-NI BONG

MechAg94

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 33,619
Re: Apparently the term "Advisory" causes significant confusion
« Reply #9 on: March 12, 2021, 03:30:45 PM »
It used to be that one of those meant a tornado (for example) was seen.  I thought they changed it to mean the radar detected a tornado. 
“It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.”  ― Calvin Coolidge

230RN

  • It's like swimming to shore in an ebb tide.
  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 18,825
  • Pushing back. Help me out, here...
Re: Apparently the term "Advisory" causes significant confusion
« Reply #10 on: March 12, 2021, 04:27:11 PM »
Hey, everybody!

Look out for:

lots of
some
almost no

snow
wind
rain
fair skies

near  you.

WLJ

  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 27,841
  • On Patrol In The Epsilon Eridani System
Re: Apparently the term "Advisory" causes significant confusion
« Reply #11 on: March 12, 2021, 05:06:20 PM »
Hey, everybody!

Look out for:

lots of
some
almost no

snow
wind
rain
fair skies

near  you.

Welcome to the Ohio Valley.
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us".
- Calvin and Hobbes

cordex

  • Administrator
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8,570
Re: Apparently the term "Advisory" causes significant confusion
« Reply #12 on: March 12, 2021, 09:50:49 PM »
Yea, I know.  It makes sense if I think about it, but something in the nomenclature isn't intuitive for some reason.
Agreed.

Angel Eyes

  • Lying dog-faced pony soldier
  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 12,257
  • You're not diggin'
Re: Apparently the term "Advisory" causes significant confusion
« Reply #13 on: March 12, 2021, 11:06:13 PM »
When you can't figure out which bathroom to use, words like "advisory" can seem pretty daunting.
"I make love to men daily, but in the imagination."
                         - Barack Obama

WLJ

  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 27,841
  • On Patrol In The Epsilon Eridani System
Re: Apparently the term "Advisory" causes significant confusion
« Reply #14 on: March 13, 2021, 07:21:06 AM »
When you can't figure out which bathroom to use, words like "advisory" can seem pretty daunting.

Bathroom Advisory
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us".
- Calvin and Hobbes

grampster

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 9,435
Re: Apparently the term "Advisory" causes significant confusion
« Reply #15 on: March 13, 2021, 10:28:03 AM »
Back when I was a kid here in Michigan, a Tornado Warning was issued if maybe, there might be, or weather conditions favor, a tornado.  If one was spotted, we got a Tornado Alert.
"Never wrestle with a pig.  You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it."  G.B. Shaw

Ben

  • Administrator
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 45,738
  • I'm an Extremist!
Re: Apparently the term "Advisory" causes significant confusion
« Reply #16 on: March 13, 2021, 10:37:33 AM »
That said, I always thought Watch vs Warning was somewhat confusing.

I had to know and check weather nearly every day for my job. Even so, though I knew the difference, I would sometimes catch myself saying "wait, which is worse?"

One could look at it as, "Warning, a storm may be coming." and, "A storm is here, watch it."  :laugh:

The color coding, orange to red, does help visualize the difference. Though not if you're getting the updates on your weather radio. :)
"I'm a foolish old man that has been drawn into a wild goose chase by a harpy in trousers and a nincompoop."

Doggy Daddy

  • Poobah
  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 5,330
  • From the saner side of Las Vegas
Re: Apparently the term "Advisory" causes significant confusion
« Reply #17 on: March 14, 2021, 01:22:42 AM »
A warning is worse than a watch.  You watch the traffic before you cross the street.  If you don't, you may still get a warning from the horn of the car that's about to hit you.

I remember it as "I'd rather get a watch than a warning."
Would you exchange
a walk-on part in a war
for a lead role in a cage?
-P.F.

grampster

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 9,435
Re: Apparently the term "Advisory" causes significant confusion
« Reply #18 on: March 14, 2021, 07:13:47 PM »
We are heading in to tornado season.  Stop talking about it...I'm having an urge to go cower in the basement.
"Never wrestle with a pig.  You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it."  G.B. Shaw