High chance of rain... but what does it mean?!

A company that trains BBC forecasters is attempting to simplify terms used in weather reports. The Met Office suggests "patchy rain" as oppose to "showery outbreaks", while mysweetbeard suggests "are they serious?" as oppose to "you gotta be fucking kidding me".

In trying to dumb down weather reports, we have to wonder what's next; perhaps commercials advertising medicine will be shortened to five seconds with the narrator quickly blurting out "WORKS BUY GO". BBCNews.com has already found it to be too difficult to be proper journalists anymore, simply listing the quoted person in the above linked article as "the Met spokesman".

Fired BBCNews.com writer: Dude, I got fired today.
Friend: Your boss let you go?
Fired BBCNews.com writer: The bad man with the tie!

In May, Scottish nationalists hit out over the three-dimensional map... Having trouble with the weather forecast, Scotland? Here's my prediction for the next twenty years: rain, rain, rain, snow, cloudy, miserable, rain.

If you want to see an excercise in poor writing, just check out the aforementioned article. I think the stupidity of the following sentence (which gets its own paragraph) will speak for itself, but what a way to end an article: "And others said they disliked the brown colouring of the map and its use of moving graphics". How many complaints were actually lodged to constitute "others"? My guess is two-- the one person complaining about the moving graphics and the writer of the article who doesn't like the color brown.