The consistency of this heat-mortality relationship has spawned heat warning systems across the globe for forecast zones comprising entire metropolitan areas or multiple counties [ 1].
Forecasts for the zone as a whole mask grave situations in some of the most troubled economies.
The central bank also revised its forecast for euro zone growth in 2014 to 1percentt from 1.1percentt.
Forecasts of euro zone growth are even trickier than usual because the economic pattern is unlike anything Europe has experienced in the past.
The IMF has upgraded its growth forecasts for the zone by 0.3%, and 0.5% for Spain, one of the hardest-hit countries.
He said that inflation would probably fall below the bank's target of about 2 percent next year and signaled that next month the central bank was likely to lower its forecasts for euro zone growth.
As the program worked its magic, it forecast an animated zone of swell that would cross thousands of miles of Pacific to the California coast in a little over a week.
In September the IMF forecast that the zone's GDP would grow by 1.1% in 2012 but estimated that if European banks were deleveraging quickly (as they are now), the economy could shrink by around 2%.Breaking pointA downturn of such severity will hugely increase the pressures within the zone.
Inflation pressures seem to have subsided overall, and the Commission, the 27-nation bloc's executive, forecast the euro zone's yearly inflation rate at 1.8percentt in 2013.
In the U.S., National Weather Service offices provide surf zone forecasts in many coastal areas.
