I am more pissed when I see a 10 day forecast on Weather.com and think “Oh its supposed to be 75 and sunny all weekend and next week!” then as the weekend gets closer, I see that it no longer is supposed to be sunny and 70, but low 60’s and 60% chance of thunderstorms for the next 10 days.
On a side note, accuweather.com does seem to provide a more uplifting forcast than Weather.com for this weekend.
You’re just looking at the pictures and not reading the forecast
Sunday: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Partly sunny, with a high near 76. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
“Partly sunny, high near 76” actually defines the broad 12 hour period.
“60% chance” means that 60% of the time, given the the historical conditions / variables, rain will be happen. But it doesn’t define the quantity of rain. So seeing as the forecast also says “Partly sunny” the 60% applies only to a low quality of rain (if at all) like a quick passing shower (< 5min duration for example) and not a sustained rain event > 1 hour.
“Showers likely” is just a conditional because the “chance of precipitation” has gone over 50%.
If you’re going to look at just the pictures (and of course I was just assuming you did in my first sentence) Accuweather’s image tends to more accurately reflect what’s really going to happen that day:
Yeah this weather sucks burt reynolds. I bought my boat 2 years ago in April and took it out right away. Last year I couldn’t wait for the ice boom to come out. This year I still haven’t even called about getting it out of storage. Maybe next week if I see at least 2 sunny days in a row in a forecast.