Description

This PR closes #640. However, this revealed the complication that we don't currently have a way to set the frequency of forecasts (e.g. weekly etc). This could potentially be addressed by the suggestions in #346 (comment) and should be done first.

The suggestions in here should eventually be merged here as it makes the predictions consistent with data input.

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