Saturday, as one meteorologist had predicted with scientific precision, was "one of those just downright awful summer days".
After decades of effort, scientists had finally detected gravitational waves, whose existence Albert Einstein had predicted, with some hesitation, in 1915 in his Theory of General Relativity.
Donald Kelley, executive director of the BrainShift Foundation, said the conservation outcomes of the competition had been far greater than he had predicted, with households reducing consumption up to 66percentt.
The New York Fed's index of manufacturing activity rose much more than economists had predicted, with companies reporting increases in orders and higher prices for their products.
But the former commando was not greeted by the throngs of wellwishers he had predicted, with just 1,500 or so turning up to greet him at the airport.
Reports from analysts and the news media have predicted, with almost comic regularity, an iPhone debut on Verizon in the next week, next month or next year.
The total amount over-55s have taken out of their pensions is lower than some commentators had predicted, with estimations that £6bn would have been withdrawn in the first four months alone.
One by one, they have predicted, with near certainty, that terrorists will strike again in the United States -- culminating today with a warning that New York landmarks like the Statue of Liberty might be at risk.
Either way, Nigel is going to have to sharpen up his act in a manner he can't possibly have predicted, with his much praised gift for self-mockery finally meeting a challenge worthy of its notices.
