天気予報

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 天気予報 is read as てんきよほう; 天気 (weather) and 予報 (forecast) combine to mean a weather forecast.
• Basic usage: Use 天気予報を確認する for checking it and 天気予報では to present it as the information source.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Forecast versus actual weather
  • It reports a prediction about future rain rather than guaranteeing that the weather will occur exactly as stated.
• Reported information with そうだ
  • 天気予報では…そうだ relays information obtained from the forecast rather than the speaker’s direct observation.