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weatherman
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Weatherman
Weathermannouna member of a militant revolutionary group active in the US during the 1970s
weatherman
Americannoun
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weathermen
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a person who forecasts and reports the weather; meteorologist.
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a weathercaster.
noun
noun
Gender
See -man.
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Origin of weatherman
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Contra Bob Dylan, sometimes you do need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 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
Coleman spent almost four decades as NBC4’s whimsical weatherman, a key player in what was arguably the most veteran broadcast news team in Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 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
The weatherman is chattering, pointing at the colors with his stick.
From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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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
Asked if he was confident in the case, Weatherman said, “It’s as good as a 1989 case can ever be.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2024
Since my accident, I decided to say yes to any opportunity that came my way, something that has seen me become a TV presenter on BBC Wales' Weatherman Walking.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2022
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 David Cory
But he said he would not miss being on duty during settled periods of weather as they were "pleasant for most people, but boring for weathermen".
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2023
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’m in the land of concrete and weathermen.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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