But it first attracted wide public attention in 2001 when Professor Lonnie Thompson of Ohio State University forecast that Mount Kilimanjaro (Tanzania) will have lost its famous snow-capped peak by 2015 if current predictions on global warming are maintained.
The State Statistical Bureau has forecast 8.7% average yearly GDP growth for the rest of the decade, with 8%-to-9% inflation.
The forecast in that state, like in many others through the Midwest, Southeast and Mid-Atlantic region, calls for slightly cooling Monday, compared to over the weekend.
The forecast for much of the state Tuesday is for temperatures in the single digits with snow possible.
The State Information Center, for instance, forecast GDP growth of 7.8 percent in 2012 and 8 percent next year.
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The bad weather is forecast to move towards the state capital, Brisbane, and the state of New South Wales.
Shashank Manohar, head of the BBCI's tour fixtures panel, said venues "may be allowed to swap a game with another state association" if adverse weather is forecast.
This was no mere statistic or forecast or description of the general state of the economy.
The council said staff had "worked around the clock" since Friday's snow to keep the roads clear, but it took the decision because the icy conditions are forecast to remain, and the state of some side streets and pavements.
She also forecast heavy rain in sections of Washington state, Idaho and Montana.
The president ordered federal aid to supplement state and local efforts in the areas in the forecast path of Hurricane Gustav.
Oklahoma is the only right-to-work state among the 10 states with the worst job growth forecast.
Supplies of palladium are forecast to be tighter overall due to lower sales of Russian state stocks partly offset by slightly higher shipments from South Africa, Johnson Matthey reported.
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Indeed, the population in the state of Thuringia, which was part of former East Germany, is forecast to plunge more than 40% to 1.3 million residents by 2060, according to government statistics.
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"When multiple cities bid, each has a different view of what the revenues will be, and the one with the brightest economic forecast usually wins, " says Evan Osborne, an economist at Wright State University.
The October Empire State Manufacturing index dropped to 24.6, well below the 10.0 fall forecast by Wall Street.
Up to 2 feet of snow was forecast along the southern coast, with lesser amounts across the rest of the state.
But in his update to the House of Commons on the state of the nation's finances, Mr Osborne announced that the UK economy was now forecast to shrink by a worse than expected 0.1% this year.
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