BoE's Weale predicts tricky time for UK forecasters Martin Weale, a member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, suggested life for UK economic forecasters is going to get a lot tougher from next month onwards, as major events like the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics make an unpredictable impact. In the first quarter of this year things have been better than I'd anticipated. I think it's more likely than not that growth will be positive," Mr Weale told the Bath Chronicle during a visit to the City. Looking ahead, we'll have quite a bit of disruption to the data because first we have the Diamond Jubilee, then the Olympics. The numbers, I'm sure, will jump around and it will be difficult to know what to make of them until we have a more stable picture late this year, and maybe not until the first quarter of next year. Heavy snowfall and unseasonably warm weather have long been intermittently blamed for distorting Britain's growth figures during the crisis, as was the Royal Wedding last year. But economic forecasters will not be able to blame such distortions for incorrect predictions indefinitely, as Mr Weale said a return to "normal" is on the horizon. Over the medium term I do expect what I'd call normal economic growth to be resumed, but normal economic growth is very different to making up the ground we've lost over the past four years. "People may not be earning as much as they might have hoped before the crisis, but at the end of the day all the experience is that economies do get out of the sort of experiences we've been having," he said.