forecast quotes

The British, he thought, must be gluttons for satire: even the weather forecast seemed to be some kind of spoof, predicting every possible combination of weather for the next twenty-four hours without actually committing itself to anything specific.

- David John Lodge
  Changing Places, ch.2.

The Doomsayers have always had their uses, since they trigger the coping mechanism that often prevents the events they forecast.

-Walter Bigelow Wriston
  Risk and Other Four-LetterWords.