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“This is a fairly uncommon event just due to the size and lower visibility of the dust storm,” she said, noting that the Hanford office’s senior forecaster issued his first career dust storm warning for several counties.

The government's official, but independent, forecaster - the Office for Budget Responsibility - said, in the short term, measures announced in the Budget would push inflation and interest rates higher than they would otherwise have been.

Nate Silver, the professional gambler and election forecaster who has been bullish for Trump this cycle, said Harris supporters were right to be “rejoicing” over Selzer’s polling.

Analysts – as well as the independent official forecaster – says that this is likely to mean businesses paying lower wages than would otherwise have been the case.

But the UK's official independent forecaster's verdict is that all the measures in the Budget do not boost the economy in the next three to five years.