10. An unneeded word to start a sentence such as uh, um, well 9. An unneeded word or phrase at the end of a sentence: as well, okay, as you know 8. Calling the weather nice or fine instead of explaining what the weather is doing. Not everyone will think the weather is nice or fine. 7. Joining repetitive words together than mean the same thing such as frontal boundary, weather outside or cold polar air 6. The starter phrases when a new map comes up such as: As you can see, taking a look at, and now we come to 5. The same word used over and over to denote space: in our area, in our region 4. Made up words or phrases: we are severe clear, anything ending in "cast" that is a made up word, made up names for radars 3. Percentages. Instead of a percent chance of rain describe it with words such as slight chance, hit and miss, good chance, very good chance 2. Wishy washy phrases that do not sell a forecast or forecast knowledge such as: I think the weather will be fine, We will see what happens, the rain chance is 50%, in the extended forecast the temperatures may get cold, I will know more tomorrow And the #1. The use of the word precipitation |