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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



... organize and direct the operations of a Bureau of Health, a Bureau of Govermnent Laboratories, a Bureau of Forestry, a Bureau of Public Lands, a Bureau of Agriculture, a Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes, a Mining Bureau and a Weather Bureau. Ultimately, the Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes and the Mining Bureau were incorporated with the Bureau of Government Laboratories to form the Bureau of Science, which continued under my executive control. ...
— The Philippines: Past and Present (vol. 1 of 2) • Dean C. Worcester
... that, old weather bureau prophet," laughed Alec; for the scout who had just made that bold assertion had long been looked up to as an authority on the subject of changes of the weather, and could reel off a dozen reasons for the prediction he was making, all founded on ...
— The Boy Scouts with the Motion Picture Players • Robert Shaler
... most marked improvement in the form of kites was made by Hargreaves, in 1885, and called the box kite. It has wonderful stability, and its use, with certain modifications, in Weather Bureau experiments, have ...
— Aeroplanes • J. S. Zerbe***


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


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