a person who forecasts and reports the weather; meteorologist.
a weathercaster.
See -man.
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“He always wanted to be a weatherman on TV,” she said, explaining how he hoped to get his big break on television by doing a weather report from the car lot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
“After all, as Bob Dylan famously said, ‘You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.’
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
"Couldn't be better timed to encourage a young weatherman in the making."
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2025
As Bob Dylan famously observed, you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2025
“Katrina is a Category Two hurricane,” says the weatherman, “quickly becoming a Category Three.”
From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
As the Cosmic Weatherman, John Mburu ably demonstrated how smoothly baroque arias for bass—regardless of their original subjects—can be repurposed as howls of despair about a modern apocalypse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
The frantic warnings of a Cosmic Weatherman go unheard as winter, confoundingly, follows spring, and summer arrives as a double cataclysm of fire and floods.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
The band signed to Epic Records after the success of Weatherman, but the relationship was short-lived and they had to crowd-fund the release of their next album.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2024
In other races Tuesday, the runoff for lieutenant governor features Hal Weatherman, a former chief of staff to then-Lt.
From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2024
You know, I have always been the Weatherman of Arkville, and, if I do say it, I have hit the mark every time.
From Puss Junior and Robinson Crusoe by Cory, David
Where Santa Monica Boulevard crosses Vermont Avenue, the rain, as the weathermen reported dispassionately, “exceeded the computed maximum 50-year rainfall.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
Without playing a game, Simmons is getting dunked on, from wrestlers to weathermen to Shaq, and there's no respite from the insults, not as long as he refuses to play for the Philadelphia 76ers.
From Fox News ● Oct. 8, 2021
Without playing a game, Simmons is getting dunked on, from wrestlers to weathermen to Shaq, and there’s no respite from the insults, not as long as he refuses to play for the Philadelphia 76ers.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 8, 2021
“I have relationships with weathermen throughout the company,” he says, laughing.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2019
I’m in the land of concrete and weathermen.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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