March 10, 2005

Please Explain 


Yahoo! has a weather section in which it features forecasts from The Weather Channel. In this section, you can read a text narrative version of the forecast (it says "Partly cloudy, with a high in the upper 30s" instead of showing a partly cloudy icon).

Next to the "Local Forecast" headline below which the text forecast appears, Yahoo! provides a link: "How to Read This."

This documentation, providing assistance in reading plain English, says:
What's in the text forecast?
The following information is available in the text forecasts provided by weather.com:

* alerts, if relevant
* basic forecast data for that day or night
* forecast data for five days from that day or night

If you're still confused, you can email Yahoo! with further questions. So I did. I said I still didn't understand how to read the text version of the local forecast.

Today I received a reply. It simply repeated the information above. I guess there just isn't that much more to explain.

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