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Meteorology

noun

Predicting what the weather will be. Synonym: weather forecasting.

The earth science dealing with phenomena of the atmosphere (especially weather).

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"Meteorology" Quotes from Famous Books

... love is very much like that of meteorology. We know that just about so much rain will fall in a season; but on what particular day it will shower is more than we can tell. We know that just about so much love will be made every year in a given population; but who will rain his young affections ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. VI.,October, 1860.—No. XXXVI. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various

... on meteorology and physical geography, he published, in 1867, an admirable little volume—"Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects." In this he showed that he could write with as much ease and intelligibility for the general public as for the higher order of scientific inquirers. ...

— The Story of the Herschels • Anonymous

... and General History of Minnesota. Department of Geology of Minnesota. Department of Zooelogy of Minnesota. Department of Botany of Minnesota. Department of Meteorology of Minnesota. Department of Northwestern Geography and Chartology. Department of American History. Department of Oriental History. Department of European History. Department of Genealogy and Heraldry. Department of Ethnology ...

— The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier • Charles E. Flandrau

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