weather station

English

Noun

weather station (plural weather stations)

  1. A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminating such information.

Usage notes
  • Weather stations are of the first order when they make observations of all the important elements either hourly or by self-registering instruments; of the second order when only important observations are taken; and of the third order when simpler work is done, as to record rainfall and maximum and minimum temperatures.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for weather station in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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