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Lateral Thinking on the Regularity of the Sun

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It is noon, your lunch hour, but you cannot go out because there is a terrific hailstorm. Turning on your radio you hear the weathercaster predict that the hail will change to rain and that it will pour all day today. How can you determine whether the sun will be shining in 36 hours? Justify your answer.

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These types of questions are all about ARGUMENT. Make one and support it. In this case it is going to an empirical claim based on your experience. Clouds only create so much precipitation right? Once all of that has turned into water and fallen from the sky there are no clouds ...

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