Meaning

2 senses

  1. (transitive)To predict the weather for a very short upcoming period (usually a few hours).

  2. (transitive)To estimate what is currently happening based on knowledge of how data is biased.

Origin

Blend of now + forecast.

Blend of now + forecast.

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Forms

nowcasts, nowcasting, nowcast, nowcast
Base formnowcast · to nowcast
3rd person singularnowcasts
Present participlenowcasting
Past simplenowcast / nowcasted
Past participlenowcast / nowcasted

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theynowcast
he, she, itnowcasts

Past simpleLesson

all personsnowcast

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave nowcast
he, she, ithas nowcast

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill nowcast

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
nowA1nowadaysA2nowhereB1nowt
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