Crossword clues for weatherman
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who observes the weather," 1869, from weather (n.) + man (n.). Weather-prophet is from 1784 as "barometer;" 1827 as "person who predicts the weather."\n\nClerk of the Weather, I deplore\n
That all thy greatness is no more,\n
As should a gentle bard;\n
That Nature, or that Nature's law\n
When you politely called for thaw,\n
Gave frost was rather hard.\n
[from Consolatory Address to Mr. Murphy, the Weather Prophet," Colburn's New Monthly Magazine, 1838]
Wiktionary
n. A weather forecaster, especially a male one.
WordNet
n. predicts the weather [syn: weather forecaster]
Wikipedia
Weatherman or Weather man may refer to:
Weather forecaster- One who is involved in presenting weather forecasting
- A TV or radio presenter, communicating information from meteorologists
- unofficial name for a United States Air Force Special Operations Weather Technician, formerly called combat weathermen.
- Weatherman, also known as Weather Underground, an American left-wing organization active in the late 1960s and 1970s
- The Weather Man, a 2005 film
- J. Walter Weatherman, one of the main recurring fictional characters from Arrested Development
- The Weathermen (Belgian band), a Belgium electropop band
- The Weathermen (hip hop group), the American hip-hop supergroup founded by Cage Kennylz
- The Weatherman LP, an album by Dilated Peoples member Evidence
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Weatherman (comics), the fictional leader of Wildstorm's Stormwatch
- Henry Bendix, the first character to bear the title
- Battalion (WildStorm) or Jackson King, Bendix's successor as Weatherman
- David Wills (musician), a member of the band Negativland
- "Weatherman" (short story), a science fiction short story by Lois McMaster Bujold
- Weathermen, a recording alias used by British record producer Jonathan King
"Weatherman" is the debut single by the Irish band Juniper, the precursor to Bell X1 and Damien Rice. It was released on 30 January 1998 and spent seven weeks in the Irish Singles Chart after entering on 5 February, breaking into the Top 10 and achieving a peak of ninth position.
"Weatherman" was released on the Mercury Records label. It featured two B-sides, "Little Sister" and "Rage", the latter of which was recorded at Sulan Studios in Ballyvourney, County Cork and the former of which was recorded at Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin along with "Weatherman". It also featured as the sixth track in a ten-track compilation given away by Hot Press to promote the Heineken Green Energy festival that year.
PolyGram signed a six-album deal with the band around this time.
"Weatherman" is a science fiction short story included in The Space Opera Renaissance collection. It was written by Lois McMaster Bujold and was first published in the February 1990 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact and is a prelude story starring a character she also used in the Vorkosigan Saga. It was republished as the first six chapters of The Vor Game. "Weatherman" was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novella, while The Vor Game won the Hugo Award for Best Novel.
Usage examples of "weatherman".
It was a typical Taurean storm, but it would have appalled any terran weatherman.
I could hear the weather report on TV, which made me think of a friend of mine, Warren Beasley, who used to be a weatherman.
Everyone at White Waltham chatted onwards and agreed that the weathermen had nine, or better, twenty-nine lives.
In the wake of the deep freeze and the dark moods it had inspired, the radio weathermen had fled the state, leaving the storm predictions to the weekend deejays.
I was starting to get a bit of a name for singing after working a month or so and I was circling about just about decided on the house I was going for, when the weather started getting really weird and folk started getting edgy, then the weathermen started giving warnings of a storm out on the ocean heading our way.
Half a dozen different organizations, from the Weathermen to the Guevara Brigade, saw that Bradenton had money.
He's a doctor of philosophy, which is rare for a weatherman, and he ought to be doing research like into the why, that no one knows, and not sitting drinking in the sun, but I'll tell you he's here now because I said I'd fly him through a hurricane's eye, and not because he's researching coconut milk with pineapple juice and rum.
Besides Qwilleran, there were the mayor, the WPKX weatherman, the town's leading photographer, and the ubiquitous Derek Cuttlebrink, plus five attractive women: the heiress from Chicago, the personable young doctor, the glamorous interior designer, the theatre club's popular ingenue, and the chic vice president of the Moose County Something.
Spock, Afeni, Candice, the Tupamaros, Berkeley Tribe, Gilbert Sheldon, Stanley Kubrick, Sam, Anna, Skip Williamson, UPS, Andy Stapp, the Yippies, Richard Brautigan, Jano, Carlos Marighella, the Weathermen, Julius Jennings Hoffman, Quentin, the inmates of TIER A-l Cook County Jail, Houdini, 37, Rosa Luxemberg, the Kent 25, the Chicago 15, the New York 21, the Motor City 3, the Indianapolis 500, Jack, Joan, Malcolm X, Mayakovsky, Dotson, R.
That is true in the sense that it is somewhat miraculous that Dohrn didn't blow herself up making pipe bombs as a member of the Weathermen back in the 1970s.
At the meetings Jube had met a well-known lawyer, a TV weatherman, and a professional exterminator who loved to talk shop and kept giving him cards ('Lots of roaches in Jokertown, I'll bet').
Every one at White Waltham chatted onwards and agreed that the weathermen had nine, or better, twenty-nine lives.