Because I live in the mountains where the weather changes often, I've never really relied on forecasts.
Farmers relied on forecasts for planting, spraying and harvesting.
The IFS's Paul Johnson again: "Mr Osborne is relying on forecasts of income through to the end of 2015.
The ONS relies on forecasts to assess what was happening in June and believes the economy was flat.
Auditors will have to sign off on that probable value, but since it relies on forecasts of the future, they are unlikely to challenge even halfway reasonable estimates.
Mr. Johnston said the corps relied on forecasts by the National Weather Service as well as its own predictions and felt confident in its safety projections.
The center's report relied on forecasts from Credit Suisse, which said late last year that about nine million homes would probably go into foreclosure in 2009 to 2012.
Relying on forecasts from prominent pollsters such as Gallup and Rasmussen, they argued that Democrats and Republican voters would make up similar proportions of the active electorate and cancel each other out, leaving the race to be decided by independent voters.
Because the proposed method relies on forecast results, false positive detections may occur.
