By Lyle Fitzsimmons
In Florida, we call it the “cone of uncertainty.”
Whenever a hurricane clears the islands of the eastern Caribbean, meteorologists of every Sunshine State persuasion are sent scrambling to computers as it approaches our retiree-sopped peninsula.
At the business end of the cautionary arc is a flared-out section that illustrates the few hundred mile range within which the rain, wind and other fun and games will actually make landfall. And while their pre-landfall appearances on camera tend to lean a smidge toward the overdramatic, my just less than eight years in the southernmost state have shown me the weather guys generally get it right.
Which is why, in the aftermath of yet another teeth-gnashing weekend of boxing judging – and having already surveyed the fatalistic Twitter pronouncements that never follow too far behind – I’ve decided to again co-opt a little of Jim Cantore’s act for the boxing crowd.
Re-introducing, ladies and gentlemen… the new and improved “cone of judging uncertainty.”
Available from me to you, my cherished Tuesday fans, free of charge.
Its practical application for non-dangerous storm situations is simple. When you watch a fight and add up your own scores, simply overlay the cone onto your paperwork and allow for a one-point swing in either direction from what you’d tallied – because, after all, none of us is infallible. [Click Here To Read More]
In Florida, we call it the “cone of uncertainty.”
Whenever a hurricane clears the islands of the eastern Caribbean, meteorologists of every Sunshine State persuasion are sent scrambling to computers as it approaches our retiree-sopped peninsula.
At the business end of the cautionary arc is a flared-out section that illustrates the few hundred mile range within which the rain, wind and other fun and games will actually make landfall. And while their pre-landfall appearances on camera tend to lean a smidge toward the overdramatic, my just less than eight years in the southernmost state have shown me the weather guys generally get it right.
Which is why, in the aftermath of yet another teeth-gnashing weekend of boxing judging – and having already surveyed the fatalistic Twitter pronouncements that never follow too far behind – I’ve decided to again co-opt a little of Jim Cantore’s act for the boxing crowd.
Re-introducing, ladies and gentlemen… the new and improved “cone of judging uncertainty.”
Available from me to you, my cherished Tuesday fans, free of charge.
Its practical application for non-dangerous storm situations is simple. When you watch a fight and add up your own scores, simply overlay the cone onto your paperwork and allow for a one-point swing in either direction from what you’d tallied – because, after all, none of us is infallible. [Click Here To Read More]
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