weather station
English
A weather station in Germany.
Noun
weather station (plural weather stations)
- A piece of equipment that collects and transmits meteorological information, and can make weather forecasts
- 2021 December 1, “Solar-powered weather stations”, in Rail, number 945, page 16:
- Network Rail has installed 60 solar-powered weather stations alongside the West Coast Main Line and across parts of north-west England. [...] NR Service Delivery Manager Talisa Fletcher said: "Our solar-powered weather stations will help us to better understand weather patterns, and during stormy weather we can send our response teams to where they're most needed which will help us to reduce disruption."
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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.
Translations
station for meteorological observations
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References
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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)
- “weather station”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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