short-term forecast
Imminent weather outlook
A short-term forecast is a prediction covering the near future—typically hours to a few days ahead.
Weather forecasts are the most common type: The short-term forecast calls for thunderstorms tonight.
The term appears in business and economics for projections of sales, demand, or market conditions over weeks or months rather than years.
- outlookAttitude toward the future
- predictionForecast of coming events
- projectionSomething that extends outward
- weatherAtmospheric state outdoors
- weather reportAtmospheric conditions summary
local news · tomorrow · hourly · radar · immediate · upcoming · near-term · weekly · daily · temperature · wind chill · precipitation · chance of rain · trending · estimate · anticipate · flash · severe weather
- forecastsfinancial projections, revenue projections, reforecast, outlook, economic outlook
- Predictionprediction, estimation, extrapolation, prognosis, projection
- economicssupply and demand, inflation, GDP, GNP, gross domestic product
short-term forecasthindcast
Model past conditions
post-mortem analysis · historical record · historical analysis · historical data · after-action report
short, forecast, shorter, shortest, shorten, shortened, shortening, shortly, shortness