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Forecasters said the tides are expected to subside in the next few days as the weather improves.

Since the double whammy of bad data, forecasters have been lining up to declare the onset of a US recession.

The conventional wisdom seems to be that economic forecasting is impossible, and that economic forecasters are charlatans.

Forecasters say 20 inches of snow fell in parts of Minnesota. And a foot of snow is possible in New England.

The city continued to endure 90-degree temperatures, and weather forecasters said the smog could return as soon as the wind shifts.

I observed a year ago that the oil market often made fools out of forecasters, and then proved myself right with a dreadful prediction.

Many forecasters believe the British economy is already in a contraction that will last at least through the end of this year.

Forecasters say temperatures are expected to remain near 40 degrees Celsius for at least the next week, with no rain in sight.

However, if the forecasters are correct and winter arrives with a vengeance this week, then our garden birds could be in for a nasty shock.

The new data seem to confirm Kay's original finding that economic forecasters all tend to be wrong in the same way.

Forecasters expected the storm to weaken as it continued to move south over cooler waters.

I recently heard a well- known forecaster say that the only valid question is which forecasters to go by and what methods they should use .

Even so, the forecasters say that within a decade or so eastern Germany as a whole should be as rich as the poorest western Lä nder.

Forecasters say it should disintegrate completely in the next day as it hits colder air in Canada.

A year later, all but one of the forecasters were too pessimistic again.

The rebound of the world's largest economy was no surprise, but it was stronger than most forecasters expected.

Most forecasters expect demand to be tepid, with a pullback by the U. S. consumer.

Forecasters always seem to underestimate the ability of the Asian tigers to rebound from recessions.

By 1992 he was back in favour at the Treasury, joining the panel of independent forecasters known as the "six wise men" .

Continued turbulence on the sun remains a concern for the next week, space forecasters say.

Forecasters also said the UK is experiencing this "little ice age" may also continue into next year in mid-March.

Forecasters always seem to underestimate the ability of the Asian tigerstorebound from recessions.

These expert forecasters say they expect a moderate recovery, but unemployment, often known as a lagging indicator, continuing to rise.

Forecasters say parts of the state could get up to six inches of snow.

Forecasters say the river is retreating because cold temperatures have been freezing water that normally would be flowing into the river.

Word has it that China's weather forecasters expect rain in the next few days, but they are too skittish to make an official prediction.

Some forecasters reckon that Brazil's growth rate could reach 7%, which would be its fastest pace in a quarter of a century.

Emergency shelters have been flooded. Forecasters predict heavier downpours for the next two days.

Forecasters say the snow is likely to continue over the next two days in northern and northeastern China.

Most forecasters see a deepening recession in 2009 that will rival only that of the 1980's in post-war severity.

Weather forecasters say the freezing conditions in the area around the Bohai Sea are expected to worsen, due to recent cold snaps.

After two years of turmoil, forecasters' consensus view is for minor improvement in housing in 2010.

It has been a bad year for economic forecasters. So bad that royalty wants to know what went wrong.

The only fly in the ointment could be the weather. Forecasters admitted that a burst of April showers was a distinct possibility.

Forecasters say that, thanks to the rising sea level, it will go up and down ever more frequently, and may be overwhelmed by 2030.

All forecasters, including the International Monetary Fund, have been surprised by the profound impact of this shock.

Recent U. S. forecasters have done a little better: The spread of forecasts is tighter, and the outcome sometimes falls within that spread.

Gustav is expected to move over open waters today where forecasters say it could gain strength as it makes its way toward the Gulf Coast .

Most private forecasters expect U. S. growth to be stronger in the quarters ahead than during the first half of this year.

This strange result has nothing to do with forecasters making exaggerated claims, or with the innate cussedness of the climate.

Weather forecasters say the storm has weakened to a tropical depression as it moved toward northern Bangladesh.

Given the regularity with which such shocks occur here, forecasters shouldn't count on trouble-free farming from June onward.

The rare occasion when the forecasters couldn't agree happened to be the occasion on which they were (on average) right.

Forecasters say there is no prospect of rain in the next few days.

Although the waters are receding, weather forecasters predict more heavy rain following (rainfall in) the next two months.

Weather forecasters are not always right: witness (ie look at the example of) their recent mistakes.

We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good.

Forecasters warned the storm will last a few days before weakening.

Such observations help the forecasters predict what the weather is going to be.

Freezing rain hit Oklahoma on Friday at the start of what forecasters say could be a brutal ice storm.

The pound appreciated sharply in 1997; for the next eight years, forecasters predicted this appreciation would soon be reversed.

As the current storm system moves eastward, weather forecasters say more precipitation is expected to move into the area.

Some of the forecasters surveyed by MacroMarkets were far from the average.

Forecasters expect lackluster growth and continued high unemployment for a number of years.

Forecasters who work atop New Hampshire's Mount Washington Observatory are in their element when the weather is at its worst.

Although some forecasters are telling Gulf Coast residents to pay attention, it's too early to predict whether the storm will hit the US.

And I'm not just talking about the dwindling band of forecasters who still insist that the economy will snap back any day now.

Already, some forecasters expect newspaper advertising to be overtaken by online spending in the UK and Sweden this year.

Even the gloomiest forecasters do not expect anything so dire this time.

Yet many pilot projects run so far have shown that junior staff can often be surprisingly good forecasters.

S. economist at Barclays Capital. And most forecasters proved to be too pessimistic as prior deep recessions ended.

Storms are lashing the mid-west and South. And forecasters say they could be headed toward parts of the eastern US.

To cover such scenarios, forecasting rules have been developed for our aviation forecasters to issue windshear warnings manually.

Forecasters stress thunderstorms can shoot lightning up to 10 miles from their cores, even into areas where there might not be rain.

This was not at all what forecasters were expecting.

Forecasters warn that Humberto could produce flooding of up to 90 centimeters in coastal areas.

The U. S. economy created 337, 000 jobs in October, far more than had been predicted by private sector forecasters.

The economic impact of the Fed's moves is likely to be modest, the forecasters said.

Forecasters warned that residents were in for several days of severe storms that would bring high winds and heavy rains.

Some forecasters, seeing weaker prospects in a key industry, are now further marking down their numbers for this year.

Forecasters say they expect temperatures to hover in the mid-30's Celsius for at least several more days.

Oil-price forecasters have been predicting since 2000 that the oil price will fall; all the while it has been climbing.

And what do many forecasters say are the prospects of a double-dip recession now?

Global output has probably risen by close to 5%, well above its trend rate and a lot faster than forecasters were expecting 12 months ago.

Forecasters predict continued high temperatures, low humidity, and rainless thunderstorms - conditions conducive to even more fires.

Forecasters will be able to predict where the expected storm surges will strike and how big they will be.

But forecasters' concerns should be not whether human response is rational or irrational, only that it is observable and systematic.

Forecasters in the United States can give an average warning time of 13 minutes before a tornado hits.

The other four forecasters predicted between one and two hikes through the end of the year.

Forecasters expect the heat to last through much of the week.

Although consumers' inflation expectations are stable, professional forecasters now expect slower price growth.

Forecasters said Gustav was moving faster than expected as it marched toward the coast with top sustained winds of around 115 mph.

Forecasters have predicted abnormally bad weather through the week, as Europe endures its snowiest, coldest weather in decades.

It is quite remarkable that on average forecasters expects Japan to be stronger than either the US or the eurozone.

Economic forecasters figure a $10-a-barrel increase in oil prices shaves 0. 3 percentage point off the U. S. economic growth rate.

Among the 18 forecasters surveyed monthly by The Economist, none expects deflation in any big economy next year save Japan.

If professional forecasters are unsure of the future, businesses and consumers certainly are as well.

Scorching temperatures continue to plague much of the west, and forecasters predict little relief in the days ahead.

SPRING has arrived, stockmarkets are cheery and even forecasters are feeling a bit sunnier about the economic outlook.

Forecasters also warned that rain could saturate the ground and that trees could tumble across roads or onto power lines.

Hurricane forecasters expect this year's hurricane season to be busier than average.

SPRING has arrived, stock markets are cheery and even forecasters are feeling a bit sunnier about the economic outlook.

But the global recession appears over, and now forecasters are arguing over the pace and sustainability of recovery.

Forecasters can now predict with greater certainty an El Nino or La Nina cycle two years in advance.

Forecasters say Hurricane Ike could grow into a Category 4 before it makes landfall.

A growing number of forecasters are downgrading their second-quarter growth predictions.

On Thursday, the Labor Department will announce the latest number, for June, and forecasters are expecting it to rise further.

Other U. S. weather forecasters, including private and university researchers, also are predicting an active hurricane season.

Forecasters say when Gustav makes landfall along the US coast, it could be as a Category-3 storm.

Forecasters expect the record-breaking temperatures to continue through much of the week.

Weather forecasters said much of Thursday's snowfall missed hard-hit Shandong province, a major wheat-producing region.

Deciders are the forecasters who decide on and prepare for the military's long-term requirements.

Like cooks going wrong by tinkering with recipes that already work, forecasters defeat themselves with too much fine-tuning.

Forecasters have been downgrading their views of 2009, for both the US and the rest of the world, at an extremely rapid rate (see chart).

Remember that all the public and private sector forecasters are still busy adjusting their 2009 economic projections downwards.

Most economic forecasters say serious inflation pressures are a distant concern until U. S. wages begin to rise.

Some forecasters say cheerily that the world economy is likely to make a sprightly recovery.

More torrential rain is sweeping towards the region of north-west China hit by a massive landslide, forecasters warn.

The weather forecasters aren't offering much solace, either, predicting a warmer and drier winter than normal for the south-east.

While forecasters had been expecting a gain, its size jolted investors.

Forecasters project that we will need to hire two million new teachers over the next decade.

Many private forecasters went into the year predicting that world oil demand would jump by around 1. 3 million barrels a day in 2008.

And of these 10, a forecast accuracy of 80 per cent means the forecasters will correctly predict rain on 8 trips.

the forecasters got it right, the media got it wrong. regular folks will be working for months to clean it up.

GDP in the euro area is expected to rise slightly, though the fund's forecasters think Britain will grow at a faster rate.

Forecasters said Earl could pass within 30 miles of Nantucket Island, bringing wind gusts up to 100 mph.

On Thursday was a tropical storm, the forecasters think it could become a hurricane sometime today.

Weather forecasters said it would rain around midnight and, hey presto, the first drops of rain started to fall almost on the dot.

If the forecasters are persistently too optimistic, so are the policymakers.

Weather forecasters are using satellites, lasers and specially equipped test aircraft to judge the ash cloud's location and density.

As all presidential budgets are prone to do, Obama's relies on rosier economic projections than most forecasters use.

The arrival of computer everywhere in the workplace would, some technological forecasters predicted, soon make paper a thing of the past.

Forecasters predicted further weakening as the storm moved northeast.

If those numbers stack up, that suggests an unlikely development tactic for poor countries: hire more weather forecasters.

Official US forecasters could tell Reuters as late as September 2007 that the recession in the US was "not a dominant risk" .

Forecasters have recently downgraded their expectations for next year, seeing tepid growth in overall oil demand.

Because answers to such questions are highly uncertain, macroeconomic forecasters rarely offer a single prediction.

Weather forecasters expect the storm's center to focus on the heavily populated corridor from Washington to New York.

Forecasters have issued a tropical storm watch for the North Carolina coast ahead of tropical storm "Danny" .

To my amazement, conventional forecasters believe such huge shifts are even probable.

Forecasters are predicting a new wave of harsh winter weather will bring more snow and freezing rain to central and southern China Thursday.

Winds were calmer earlier this morning but forecasters say the gale-force winds will return, just making it even harder for the fire crews.

When the recession is over, there are precious few forecasters who think the City and the like will return to its glory days.

Meanwhile, Munk and Sverdrup set up shop at Scripps and began turning out entire classes of surf forecasters.

But forecasters were saying Isaac could strengthen to a hurricane today.

Forecasters say conditions could turn extremely dangerous in the mid-Atlantic region around Washington.

But he cautions that the situation might get worse before it gets better; weather forecasters predict more rain in the coming days.

Forecasters expect that over time, the popularity of tablets will eat into PC sales.

Gray says a detailed picture of how hurricanes form could help forecasters make better guesses, but every storm is different.

Though the recession has ended, few forecasters yet think growth will be sufficiently fast in the quarters ahead to reduce unemployment.

The forecasters, on Wall Street and elsewhere, are not blind to economic change; they just tend to underestimate its severity.

Forecasters predict the storm could make landfall over Cuba as a hurricane by Sunday.

Forecasters have issued tropical storm warning from east of High Island, Texas to neighboring Louisiana.

But, no, in 2005, the economy grew more slowly than 19 out of 21 forecasters had expected at the end of the previous year.

The NPP is the first mission designed to provide observation for both weather forecasters and climate researchers.

Federal forecasters had said there was 40% chance that tar balls could eventually wash ashore in Texas.

Forecasters are warning of possible flash flooding in the northern mid-Atlantic states and southern New England.

Over the last 17 months, our poll of forecasters have revised down their growth forecast from over 2% to a low of 1. 5%.

Economic forecasters may be deluding themselves if they are counting on a quick, strong recovery.

For the most part, NABE forecasters see the Fed's key rate staying at 4. 5 percent through the rest of this year and next year.

Cowboy tradesmen remain in business because there are always gullible customers, and the same is true of economic forecasters.

Though fewer forecasters fear it now, the risk of a too-cold economy hasn't disappeared, either.

That acceleration wasn't anticipated by professional forecasters.

Forecasters have speculated that the most substantial damage may come from flooding.

Their reputations as forecasters may be affected by which of them winds up being correct.

Most forecasters also predict another weak year for Japan's market, where vehicle sales have been falling since 2005.

Sometimes it's hard to believe but weather forecasters and economists are an improvement .

Most forecasters expect output to grow by an annualised 2. 5% or more in the second quarter.

Forecasters say that by 2030 it is likely to have more people than China.

Forecasters say Tropical Storm Gert has formed in the Atlantic and could approach Bermuda as early as Sunday night.

The forecasters see the economic effects of the BP PLC oil spill sharply different from the public.

Physicists could become tomorrow's leading economic forecasters.

The euro area's economy has looked remarkably healthy this year, and keeps surprising forecasters.

The scale and suddenness of the slump has left economic forecasters scrambling to keep up.

When forecasters predict the path of the storm, they use what's called a cone of uncertainty.

Most forecasters think Britain's economy will continue to grow respectably (see article).

style, these age-old favorites have proven so popular that fashion forecasters predict they will only grow in importance, not lessen.

Forecasters expect the storm to head back out to sea.

Forecasters had warned all eight of the selected sites could suffer bad weather.

Tropical storm Barbara took shape earlier today. Forecasters say it could become a category 1 hurricane in the coming days.

Forecasters have been marking up their predictions; growth as high as 4 percent this year now looks possible.

Forecasters predict heavy rain in the region next week, which could further raise the water levels in the lakes.

Forecasters who had clung to the notion that online retailers would prove an exception, have changed their tune recently.

No. Currencies defy forecasters' tools, but the dollar will survive global forces for another year.

The tropical storm is taking shape in the Gulf of Mexico, and forecasters predict it could reach land by tomorrow.

BBC forecasters say strong gusts could bring branches down as low pressure ushers in the autumn's first storms.

Forecasters are predicting more of the same this week as rain and gale-force winds sweep in.

Information on thunderstorms as detected by a lightning location system is also available to forecasters.

The consensus is for a modest 3% growth rate in the second half, but some forecasters call that optimistic.

You find news readers and weather forecasters all speaking with different accents.

Forecasters say the storm system is moving eastward and more severe weather can be expected.

6 each season will have new popular element, don't blindly suit, let oneself become fashion, but forecasters lose their style.

Forecasters warn many rivers in the nation's midsection could crest above flood stage in the coming days.

ANALYSTS are a bit more optimistic about the outlook for growth in 2011, according to our December poll of forecasters.

Forecasters say it could reach category five status during the day.

The forecasters were wrong: The U. S. grew at a disappointing 1. 9% pace in the first quarter.

Private forecasters believe the Fed should sit tight, according to a new Wall Street Journal survey.

Forecasters at the US national hurricane centre in Miami said Ida's winds were near 100mph and could get stronger overnight.

Most forecasters anticipate another moderate gain in the fourth quarter.

In the past week, Germany and Japan both surprised forecasters by reporting that positive growth after a string of quarterly contractions.

A cold front is blamed for drenching rain storms, and forecasters say more rain is likely in coming days.

Most forecasters think the economy will only start growing in the second half of the year.

The oil market is inherently volatile, and has made fools out of forecasters many times in the past 12 months.

Nonetheless, the opinions of forecasters on China remain divided.

Market forecasters are locked in a debate over what comes next.

Currencies defy forecasters tools, but the dollarwillsurvive global forces for another year.

Forecasters say an arctic front will bring even more startling snow tomorrow.

Forecasters expect 350m-360m of them to be sold this year and the market is likely to keep growing, if slowly.

Forecasters say another winter storm is making its way into the region.

Extrapolating current trends, some forecasters predict that China's economy will vault ahead of America's in 15 years.

Yet at any time, there are many forecasters with a large range of views.

The Fed's outlook for 2011 was already more optimistic than that of many market forecasters.

Forecasters expect this to expand greatly, but obstacles loom.

The central projections retained by major institutional forecasters indicate a further deceleration in world economic growth in 2008 7 .

Weather forecasters were in a similar position 25 years ago.

Forecasters expected another 250 to 300 millimeters would fall before the system moved eastward on Thursday.

It took the forecasters five years to get it approximately right again.

Oona McSweeney, vice-president of retail and special markets for trend forecasters Stylesight, is also enthusiastic about the concept.

Surveyed again this past week, forecasters now anticipate year-end unemployment of 10%.

In the Pacific Ocean, forecasters are tracking Hurricane Henriette which is moving north, near Mexico's western coast.

Her Majesty's question has sparked a series of ludicrous claims about the prescience of individual forecasters.

That could mean 9% unemployment will be here for some time, whatever forecasters claim.

At the end of 1998 The Economist's poll of forecasters predicted that South Korea would shrink again slightly in 1999.

Many forecasters put U. S. economic growth at around 3 percent next year, but there will still be areas of weakness.

Philippine weather forecasters say storms like Washi hit the south of country about once every 12 years.

Guidance material for forecasters on various aspects of weather associated with tropical cyclones is also developed.

The temperature in the north will rise after this Friday and the south will be warmer after Nov 22, forecasters predicted yesterday.

As it stands, the IEA is the most bullish of the three main forecasters on 2010 demand growth.

That's the fastest pace since 2004 and double the rate IMF forecasters projected at the start of 2010.

According to Vierick, space-weather predictions have some catching up to do: "We're back where weather forecasters were 50 years ago. "

Other long-range forecasters paint a similar picture.

Yet at the end of 2001, three quarters of the forecasters were too optimistic about 2002.

But forecasters have a poor record predicting Chinese inflation; nearly all of them underestimated its current severity.

For our complete July averages poll of forecasters, see here.

Spare a thought for the weather forecasters.

But as the forecasters fret, not all of the world is suffering.

This June, forecasters saw a mere 15% chance of a recession; in July, that number actually dipped to 13. 8%.

Hurricane season starts June 1, and forecasters predict a worse-than-average summer.

There is a small cadre of forecasters who expect a far better outcome than mere recovery, soon.

As of January 21, forecasters were warning Californians to brace for yet another storm.

Other forecasters were also bullish on copper.

Forecasters put the odds of favorable launch at 90% for weather.

Other forecasters predict a similar path.

What do I then say about private sector forecasters?

Forecasters in Vietnam say there may be more heavy rain in the coming days.

Fargo is on higher alert after forecasters said the Red River could crest higher than predicted this weekend, at a record of 43 feet.

Forecasters believe there is a 70% chance now that stormy weather will prevent the shuttle getting away on Friday.

Forecasters say it could become a category 1 hurricane in the coming days.

The Blue Chip consensus of private forecasters has the same number.

Weather forecasters can glance out of the window if they want to find out what the weather is doing right now .

The index had gone up 0. 3 per cent in each of the previous four months and forecasters had expected a similar rise in July.

Forecasters said they could hold roughly steady this year.

Several forecasters believe that short-term rates will reach 6% by early 2007.

Most forecasters expect the Indian economy to grow by about 5 per cent this year.

Forecasters predict a 70 percent chance of rain Friday for London.

When the economy is on the verge of recession, the average recession odds from forecasters tend to rise to about 30 percent.

Most forecasters are predicting the beginnings of recovery only very late in 2009 or early 2010.

For countries which have not yet published their full-year figures, we have used 2010 estimates from The Economist's poll of forecasters.

Forecasters generally are predicting U. S. stocks will gain 10 percent to 20 percent in the new year.

There are other reasons too why some forecasters are less glum.