There is a 'risk' of snow

[chocoluvva]

according to weather forecasters (hah, 'presenters').

Am I being too picky when I dislike the use of 'risk' rather than 'chance' of snow?

Presumably snow implies a risk of accidents, but I would either use risk as a noun in its own right. (is there a grammatical term for that?) r as an adjective - risky, the risks are either of something universally considered to be 'dire', eg death, disastrous damage etc, or a risk in that context, eg you risk looking obviously made-up if you wear lip-gloss and blusher (only a 'risk' if you don't want to look 'made up'. I suppose death is only a 'risk' if you don't want your action to result in death, but that's taking it too far)

I welcome your comments.

Apologies for the muddled punctuation. tbh, I sometimes can't be bothered to try to punctuate correctly

Well, dictionary would suggest you are being too picky - see definition 1.1 here. www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/risk

I suppose you could take issue with the implication that snow is a bad thing (or a source of danger), but I think that's reasonable when talking to adults many of whom have to get to work or drive.

I think the objection to "risk of snow" is that you would only use the work "risk" if someone is taking a risk. It sounds OK to me to say "There is a risk of encountering snow if you travel to Yorkshire", but saying just "There is a risk of snow", is kind of mixing up something that might happen to us with something we might make happen. Or at least it can sound like that to sensitive pedants.

Thank you for your replies.

A grammatical 'mistake'! (Kind of.)