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• n  someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge)

• In a race that turns out to be all about climate change, just about every forecaster was wrong which in a way was the best part.
• Virulent inflation and an epochal energy crisis are only two of the most ominous realities that eluded the visions of virtually every forecaster.
• As local forecaster Isaac Cline wrote afterwards, "Where 20,000 people lived on Sept.

• predictor
• prognosticator
• soothsayer

News & Articles

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• New program sends weather alerts to cell phone users
  LAS CRUCES — Weather alerts usually don't startle Mike Hardiman. As a National Weather Service forecaster, he's part of the local team responsible for sending them out.
  June 22, 2013 - Las Cruces Sun-News
• “Big Daddy’s House” host Aaron McCargo Jr. moonlights as a weather forecaster
  Host of Food Network’s “Big Daddy’s House” fills in as guest weather forecaster on the PIX11 Morning News. …
  June 21, 2013 - WPIX 11 New York
• ‘Big Daddy’s House’ host Aaron McCargo Jr. moonlights as PIX11 weather forecaster
  Host of Food Network’s “Big Daddy’s House” fills is as guest weather forecaster on the PIX11 Morning News. …
  June 21, 2013 - WPIX 11 New York

Quotes

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• Patrick Moore in Metro
  British astronomer Patrick Moore said: "He was a great visionary, a brilliant science fiction writer and a great forecaster. He foresaw communications satellites, a nationwide network of computers, interplanetary travel - he said there would be a...
• President Bush in CNN
  (CNN) -- President Bush on Tuesday cautioned his successor, Barack Obama, "not to become an economic forecaster" after he takes office later this month.
• George Osborne in BBC News
  Shadow Chancellor George Osborne, said: "When the prime minister and the chancellor made his recession forecast last autumn, we along with almost every independent forecaster said it was likely to be wrong - but they wouldn't listen. The result is...