Sentence examples for and the forecasters from inspiring English sources

Our national preoccupation has made the forecast part of the weather, and the forecasters have come to be regarded as oracles, not just sources of practical guidance but scapegoats when things go wrong.

And the forecasters point to a paradox this time around: The more snow, the better.

Skip the stock-picking nonsense, the bloviating opinion mongers and the forecasters.

The year to July saw a net 95,000 increase in employment and the forecasters predict 200,000 more in 2005.

The rain was being measured in millimetres rather than centimetres and the forecasters were confident that York would see the back of the weather front by teatime, but the damage may have been done.

"If you go back through the history of the postwar era, in many if not most cases the political establishment and the forecasters didn't even recognize the recession until we were well into it," said Bruce Bartlett, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, a conservative research group.

They include Brian Wesbury, chief economist for Griffin, Kubik, Stephens & Thompson and the forecaster I most often quote here; Abby Joseph Cohen, the perpetually bullish (and often right) analyst with Goldman Sachs; Ed Yardeni, chief investment strategist of Prudential Equity Group; and Larry Kudlow of CNBC's Kudlow & Cramer fame.

It also contains two games called Take The Lie Detector Test and The Forecaster Game as well as PC material such as wallpapers and screensavers.

And if the forecasters predicted rain, he passed on his usual instructions to the maintenance staff: cover the books and computers with plastic sheeting -- again.

For Monday and Christmas Eve, the forecasters added: "A very deep area of low pressure will bring very strong winds and heavy rain to much of the UK from Monday morning, through to late Tuesday morning.

The resulting ensemble streamflow forecast provides an estimate of the predictive uncertainty associated with the single-valued forecast to support risk-based decision making by the forecasters and by the users of the forecast products, such as emergency managers.