weather station

noun

: a station for taking, recording, and reporting meteorological observations

Examples of weather station in a Sentence

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For example, millions of weather stations all around the world, hundreds of meteorological balloons and countless airplanes provide daily measurements of the entire troposphere, the atmosphere's lowest region. Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 21 Jan. 2025 The National Weather Service, NOAA weather stations, and Esri update the data hourly. Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Jan. 2025 Multiple weather stations reported gusts near 50 mph today, including Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (48), Denton Enterprise Airport (51), McKinney National Airport (48) and Dallas Love Field (45), all in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. NBC News, 6 Jan. 2025 Tennessee state climatologist Andrew Joyner is one of several experts now calling for more river gauges to monitor water levels and a network of weather stations in every county designed to collect live precipitation data. Lauren Sausser and Holly K. Hacker, The Tennessean, 30 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for weather station 

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1895, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of weather station was circa 1895

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“Weather station.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weather%20station. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.

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weather station

noun
: a station for taking, recording, and reporting observations of the weather

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