Word: forecaster
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Boeing's shadow that the A380 flies. It hasn't helped Airbus that the $300 million plane was two years late to its own party. Airbus suffered a terrible financial year due to A380 production delays, costing it an estimated $6.61 billion in forecast profit. The company also plans to cut 10,000 jobs. It estimates that it will take sales of more than 250 A380s to break even on its $14 billion investment...
...official Japanese Meteorological Agency, which bases its forecasts on a databank of more than three decades of climate statistics, confidently predicted that the model tree in Tokyo - located in the Yasukuni Shrine, the Shinto place of worship better known for the controversy over its enshrinement of Japan's war dead - would begin to blossom on March 18. But that forecast had to be hastily revised last week, when officials discovered that a computer glitch had thrown off the prediction. As programming errors go, this was just slightly less catastrophic than the NASA mistake that caused the $125 million Mars Climate...
...trees generally bloom in March and April throughout Japan, but because people around the country plan festivals, tours and company parties around the blossoming, they need a precise forecast in advance...
...That's only one day earlier than the forecast by meteorologist Kida of Weathernews. His more accurate prediction is a result of combining careful crunching of meteorological measurements and history with a steady stream of data provided by a network of nearly 4,000 observers monitoring cherry trees around Japan. "We have people monitor specific trees in their region," says Kida. "They send us cell phone picture images on a daily or weekly basis, which gives us a much more accurate picture of how the cherry blossoms are doing in different regions...
...tracks just 80 trees. And for a private company like Weather News, earning a reputation for accurate botanical prognostication can prove lucrative. "Our corporate clients are quite serious about getting it right," says Kida. "One employee of a very well-known company offered us money to get an accurate forecast because he was in charge of setting up the company hanami party, and getting the dates right is not a laughing matter...