INTERPRETATION

BENEFIT AND LIMITATION

GLOSSARY

Local 3-Month Temperature Outlook Pie Chart Table

Benefits	Limitations
Provides site-specific information Shows, at-a-glance, which category is most likely and least likely Provides the actual expected chance for that outlook category and its associated 1981-2010 temperature value used to define this category	Cannot provide a high-confidence outlook for an exact three-month temperature Limited to only three categories: more categories might be more informative Category boundaries are not flexible, they are pre-set by 1981-2010 climatology normals