It then forecasts future earnings and discounts these on the basis of brand strength and risk.

At the time, meteorologists carried out forecasts principally by looking for similar weather patterns from past records, and then extrapolating forward.

From 1980, he worked at the Nottingham Weather Centre, presenting his first forecast for Radio Lincolnshire, then further forecasts for Midlands Today ( Nottingham news opt-out, starting 28 May 1980 ) and Central Television.

Historical EPS figures and forecasts for the next 1 – 2 years can be found by visiting free financial sites such as Yahoo Finance ( enter the ticker and then click on " estimates ").

Isaac Goldberg thought that " Thespis looks forward far more often than it glances backward: " It forecasts the characteristic methods, and now and then a character, of the later series.

Preliminary forecasts are released before the start of the hurricane season, and the forecasts are then revised as the season progresses.

The forecasts were progressively scaled back from the planning stage, to 7 million and then 5 million during the event.

The center then forecasts the future of the tsunami, issuing warnings to at-risk areas all around the Pacific basin if needed.

Now standard forecasts techniques can be formulated for the process, and then ( having the sufficient number of initial conditions ) can be forecast via opportune integration steps.

The data obtained from these can then be used to perform self-diagnostic and optimization routines on a frequent basis and to produce trend analysis and annual consumption forecasts.

One view argues it did not occur on the San Andreas fault ( the focus of most of the forecasts ), and involved dip-slip ( vertical ) movement rather than strike-slip ( horizontal ) movement, and so was not predicted.

The USAF pioneered tornado forecasting and tornado warnings, mainly due to the Weather Bureau's strong discouragement / ban on the use of the word " tornado " in forecasts or statements, fearing that it would cause the public to panic if they predicted tornadoes.

However, due to the size of the storm, initial forecasts predicted nearly all of the state would be affected in one form or another.

The marketing forecasts for VM / 370 predicted that no more than one 168 would ever run VM during the entire life of the product.

It is also one of the statistics predicted for each hitter in Baseball Prospectus's annual PECOTA forecasts.

Frustration with the media generating misleading news stories from the probabilistic forecasts ( such as the " barbecue summer " headlines in May 2009 ), with intense negative publicity from the Met Office's rivals such as Daily Telegraph / Press Association-owned MeteoGroup and with publicity resulting from the low probability predicted for the cold winter of 2009-2010 led the Met Office to stop disseminating their seasonal forecasts to the media in February 2010, although these forecasts are still available for customers.

With warm water temperatures of over and updated model forecasts anticipating light amounts of vertical wind shear, forecasters predicted Kenna to slowly intensify to reach winds of 85 mph ( 135 km / h ) within 72 hours of October 22.

* Verification – As new forecast data becomes available it is necessary to check whether new forecasts confirm the outcomes predicted by the old forecasts.

Prior to the session several teams ' weather forecasts predicted a rain storm after 20 minutes.

In 1992, three scientists from Environment Canada developed the UV Index, and made Canada the first country in the world to broadcast forecasts of the predicted daily UV levels for the next day.

Additionally, some forecasts predicted that Adrian would survive the passage of Central America and enter the Caribbean Sea, possibly becoming the third known storm to cross from the eastern Pacific into the Atlantic basin.

Weather forecasts indicated that Patsy would cause bad weather over the Gulf of Tonkin on November 21, preventing carrier support operations, and converging with a cold front coming out of southern China, would cause poor conditions over North Vietnam for the remainder of the window.

-- Congress starts another week tomorrow with sharply contrasting forecasts for the two chambers.

Why the discrepancy between the builders' forecasts for themselves and for the industry??

During the course of 2009, the grim forecasts for the effects of the global crisis on the Bulgarian economy largely materialized.

In 1997 the prediction division of the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University began generating seasonal climate forecasts on a real-time basis.

in a single integrated system, Earned Value Management is able to provide accurate forecasts of project performance problems, which is an important contribution for project management.

EVM implementations for large or complex projects include many more features, such as indicators and forecasts of cost performance ( over budget or under budget ) and schedule performance ( behind schedule or ahead of schedule ).

ECMWF was established in 1975, in recognition of the need to pool the scientific and technical resources of Europe ’ s meteorological services and institutions for the production of medium-range weather forecasts and of the economic and social benefits expected from it.

The primary purposes of the Centre are the development of a capability for medium-range weather forecasting and provision of medium-range weather forecasts to the Member States.

The objectives of the Centre shall be to develop, and operate on a regular basis, global models and data-assimilation systems for the dynamics, thermodynamics and composition of the Earth's fluid envelope and interacting parts of the Earth-system, with a view to preparing forecasts by means of numerical methods, providing initial conditions for the forecasts, and contributing to monitoring the relevant parts of the Earth-system.

* Preparation of medium-range weather forecasts for distribution to the member states

For example, the Survey of Professional Forecasters contains forecasts for many forecasters ( cross-sectional observations ), at many points in time ( time series observations ), and at multiple forecast horizons ( a third dimension ).

* Kesten Green's Conflict Forecasting-See Papers for evidence on the accuracy of forecasts from game theory and other methods.

A graph showing Italy's GDP growth from 2000 to 2010 ( including forecasts for 2011 ) compared with EU's GDP growth.

As a result of NHC's forecasts there had been a massive evacuation of New Orleans amid warnings ( for example from the city's mayor, Ray Nagin ) that this would be the “ storm of the century ”, potentially more devastating than Katrina almost exactly three years earlier, but these fears were not realised.

The chaotic nature of the atmosphere, the massive computational power required to solve the equations that describe the atmosphere, error involved in measuring the initial conditions, and an incomplete understanding of atmospheric processes mean that forecasts become less accurate as the difference in current time and the time for which the forecast is being made ( the range of the forecast ) increases.

A hydrometeorologist prepares and issues forecasts of accumulating ( quantitative ) precipitation, heavy rain, heavy snow, and highlights areas with the potential for flash flooding.

Maritime meteorology deals with air and wave forecasts for ships operating at sea.

Organizations such as the Ocean Prediction Center, Honolulu National Weather Service forecast office, United Kingdom Met Office, and JMA prepare high seas forecasts for the world's oceans.

The chaotic nature of the atmosphere, the massive computational power required to solve the equations that describe the atmosphere, error involved in measuring the initial conditions, and an incomplete understanding of atmospheric processes mean that forecasts become less accurate as the difference in current time and the time for which the forecast is being made ( the range of the forecast ) increases.

* Provide data and forecasts for weather and water cycle events, including storms, droughts, and floods.

The National Weather Service ( NWS ) is tasked with providing " weather, hydrologic, and climate forecasts and warnings for the United States, its territories, adjacent waters and ocean areas, for the protection of life and property and the enhancement of the national economy.