weather-prophet

We expect, depending on which weather-prophet you follow and where they place our fair village in the ever-changing geography of Maine, somewhere between 3" of mixed precip and 12" of snow.

It's Wednesday -- do you know where your blizzard is? jhetley 2009

"January thaw" has been uttered in an official capacity by a certified weather-prophet.

Magic words jhetley 2008

In the spirit, then, of offering some out-of-the-way information illustrative of the subject from a standpoint different from that of the ordinary “weather-prophet” is this story penned.

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

In this cipher the fickle winds are given the names of women with a covert sarcasm quite out of place in the respectable old weather-prophet whom every housewife consults before the day's work begins.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various

The sky, which had been brilliantly blue all day, was beginning to be overcast, causing the energetic helpers at the Vicarage Bazaar to throw anxious glances towards the gathering clouds, and Herrick, who was a fair weather-prophet, foresaw a storm before sunset.

The Making of a Soul Kathlyn Rhodes

My mother used to say that he was a wise weather-prophet.

Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910

As the weather-prophet reads the heavens so the man of experience reads other men.

The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907

No weather-prophet was needed to tell these hillcountry folk that they were in for a thunderstorm; -- and for what one kennel-man described as "a reg'lar ol 'he-one," at that.

Further Adventures of Lad Albert Payson Terhune 1907

Fortunately it proves to be only fancy, and the telegraph-jee, assuming the part of a weather-prophet, reassures me by remarking, "Inshalla, am roos, baran neis" (Please God, it will not rain to-day).

Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

Here the venerable old weather-prophet winked at Munchausen, and the little quarrel which had been imminent passed off in a general laugh.

The Pursuit of the House-Boat Being Some Further Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades, under the Leadership of Sherlock Holmes, Esq. John Kendrick Bangs 1892