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Weather bureau   /wˈɛðər bjˈʊroʊ/   Listen
Weather bureau

noun
1.
An administrative unit responsible for gathering and interpreting meteorological data for weather study and forecasts.





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"Weather bureau" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the weather, this chair, through some unknown but powerful influence, changed its shape, thus becoming in its own way a sort of government weather bureau. And if in all this "land of the free and home of the brave" there be a single throne, it must be this same curiously changeable chair. In spite of, or perhaps because of, its strange powers, that weird piece ...
— The Shepherd of the Hills • Harold Bell Wright
... (4) Botanist, (5) Chief of the Section of Vegetable Pathology, (6) Statistician, (7) Ornithologist, (8) Director of the Office of Experiment Stations, (9) Microscopist, (10) Pomologist, (11) Chief of the Forestry Division, (12) Chief of the Seed Division, and (13) Weather Bureau. The enumeration of these titles indicates the general nature of the work of the department. Here are investigated the habits of injurious insects and birds and the best means for their destruction; the ...
— Government and Administration of the United States • Westel W. Willoughby and William F. Willoughby


Words linked to "Weather bureau" :   administrative body, administrative unit


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