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nowcasting

noun

Etymology

Blend of now + forecasting.

  1. inherited from forcastyng
  2. compounded as nowcasting — “now + forecasting”

Definitions

  1. The use or production of nowcasts.

    • Spence said: "We have a weather provider, MetDesk, which gives us real-time information - radar analysis of what rain is falling. It's called nowcasting rather than forecasting, with refresh rates every five minutes.

  2. The use of mathematical models of a current situation that include adjustments to…

    The use of mathematical models of a current situation that include adjustments to imperfect data.

  3. present participle and gerund of nowcast

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nowcasting. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA