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Weather Forecasts Should Get Over the Rainbow

Noted: Karen Schloss, head of the Visual Reasoning Lab at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has advice for anyone trying to absorb this complicated information: “Be aware of the category boundaries in colors that we can see and take a moment to think about what the numbers represent, rather than making a quick judgment that, for example, ‘I’m in this color region so I don’t need to worry about this storm.’”