weath·er·man

[weth-er-man]
noun, plural weath·er·men.
1.
a person who forecasts and reports the weather; meteorologist.
2.
a weathercaster.

Origin:
1535–45; weather + man1


See -man.
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weatherman (ˈwɛðəˌmæn) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n , pl -men
a person who forecasts the weather, esp one who works in a meteorological office

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Weatherman is always a great word to know.
So is lollapalooza. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
Weatherman (ˈwɛðəˌmæn) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n , pl -men
(US) a member of a militant revolutionary group active in the US during the 1970s
 
[C20: name adopted from a line in Bob Dylan's song ``Subterranean Homesick Blues'': "You don't need a weatherman To know which way the wind blows."]

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It's appropriate, somehow, that anyone calling himself a skiing weatherman
  might also ski.
Aside from the daily weatherman, farmers and travel agents are among many who
  rely on climate normals.
Apparently it does take a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
Problem is that when the weatherman consistently predicts rain and doesn't get
  it, he gets laughed out of the business.
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