Temperatures and precipitation in the Midwest have an equal chance of being above or below normal in June, the National Weather Service said in its latest monthly forecast released on Thursday.
That pattern could linger through August for the nation's key grain growing regions, U.S. weather forecasters said.
I think I will point to this quotation the next time I hear some humanities or journalism student say they "don't need" to study math or statistics.
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So the new "normal" is really the old "normal"? In the sense of being, um, the average...
Take it from my sad experience among the human rights types at the Int'l Studies school: even when they're required to take stats, something in their brains allows the effects to slide right off, leaving them perhaps shaken but ultimately unaltered by the experience.
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