meteorology

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In addition to the forecasts issued four times daily, collective reports are issued hourly by wireless from the London terminal aerodrome at Croydon and copies are distributed to transport companies and others concerned A feature of meteorology which is often overlooked is its economic value.

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  1. noun The science that deals with the phenomena of the atmosphere, especially weather and weather conditions.

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  • I determined that part of the diversions of my first winter at Mackinack should consist of notices of its meteorology, the changes of winds and currents in the straits, ;c. Shut out from the world by a long expanse of coasts, which cannot be navigated in the winter, much of the sum of our daily observation must necessarily take its impress from local objects. —  Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers
  • I started using 24h time because I study meteorology, and everything in that profession is done in 24h time.
  • But D'Aleo noted that he believes there is "very likely a silent majority of scientists in climatology, meteorology, and allied sciences who do not endorse what is said to be the 'consensus' position."
  • "The study showed that the time of day and the meteorology is very important," Durant said. —  The Somerville News Blog
  • Malcolm Hughes, regents 'professor, and Fenbiao Ni, research associate at the Laboratory of Tree Ring Research, University of Arizona; Zhihua Zhang and Sonya Miller, research associates, meteorology, Penn State; and Scott Rutherford, assistant professor of environmental sciences at Roger Williams University. —  India eNews
 

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  1. French météorologie, from Greek meteōrologiā, discussion of astronomical phenomena : meteōron, astronomical phenomenon; see meteor + -logiā, -logy.

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  1. = French mé-téorologie = Spanish meteorología = Portuguese Italian meteorologia, from New Latin meteorologia, from Greek μετεωρολογία, a treatise on meteors or celestial phenomena, μετεωρολόγός, speaking of meteors or celestial phenomena, from μετἐωρον, a meteor (τα\ μετέωρα, celestial phenomena), + λέγειν, speak: see-ology.
 

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