Designing the avocado of uncertainty visualization

From a color palette decision, isn't green a bad choice? "I'm in the green, ok perfect I'll stay at home!" Why not use a perceptually uniform color gradation that has a vague connotation of danger, like the (aptly named) plasma, inferno, or magma color schemes from R's viridis color package? [1].

[1] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/viridis/vignettes/in...

In ancient times, they would have called that a shmoo of uncertainty, while avocado was the color your telephone and refrigerator happened to be.

> When we loaded the data onto our prototype we realized it looked like an avocado; the avocado of uncertainty!

Given the name of the company is "Stamen" they clearly have a masculine fruit bias.

Article says this...

> Forcing a user to relearn a system that may not be broken is poor design, so we wanted to maintain as much of these design characteristics as possible.

...which seems to conflict with this statement later in the article.

> As CrisisReady explained to us, people expect to see the cone of uncertainty in hurricane visualizations, though the avocado of uncertainty should remain the focus.

I get that unexpected and quirky titles drive clicks, but please, authors, give at lease some basic explanation in the beginning of your article. I shouldn't have to scroll almost halfway down the page to find out what "avocado of uncertainty" means.

Alright, well that was disappointing. No whimsical fruit to be found anywhere on that page. My imagination went wild for a moment.

I don't know what exactly I was expecting but I'm pretty broken up about it. :/