weatherman
noun
a person who forecasts and reports the weather; meteorologist.
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weatherman
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[weth-er-man]
/ ˈwɛð ərˌmæn /
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weathermen
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a person who forecasts and reports the weather; meteorologist.
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a weathercaster.
Weatherman
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/ ˈwɛðəˌmæn /
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weatherman
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/ ˈwɛðəˌmæn /
noun
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See -man.
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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
"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
The weatherman is chattering, pointing at the colors with his stick.
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
Douglas County Prosecuting Attorney Matthew Weatherman said the information from the person who came forward is “rock-solid.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2024
Weatherman Matt Taylor leads us through some notable moments from the last seven decades... it's hard not notice the changing fashion styles too!
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 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 David Cory
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
He regards certain town officials with the same contempt he holds for TV weathermen.
From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2018
I’m in the land of concrete and weathermen.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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