meteorologist
Americannoun
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meteorologists
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of meteorologist
First recorded in 1630–40; meteorolog(y) ( def. ) + -ist ( def. )
Explanation
The expert TV reporter who presents the nightly weather forecast is a meteorologist. If you want to know if it's going to rain on your picnic this weekend, ask a meteorologist! Meteorologists get their name from the Greek meteōrologia, "discussion or study of high things." The "high thing" meteorologists study and report on is the planet's atmosphere — and the way it affects the weather. While people have tried to predict the weather for centuries, it's only recently that science has caught up with this goal, and meteorologists usually get it right.
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Friday, said Devin Black, a meteorologist for the weather service’s Oxnard office.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Alan Smith, a meteorologist at ski forecasting platform OpenSnow, identified several destinations with favorable odds, though he warned that you will still need some luck on your side.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
“In terms of winds, right now is the peak,” Chandler Price, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service San Diego office, said on Friday afternoon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
Binod Parajuli, a meteorologist who works with the Nepalese government, said: "Our hydrological station was swept away and we are not getting any data from that location."
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
In Germany, however, Taylor’s idea was picked up, and effectively appropriated, by a theorist named Alfred Wegener, a meteorologist at the University of Marburg.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
By the morning of October 13, meteorologists were still struggling to predict where Simon would go next and how strong it might become.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
This has developed a new area of low pressure that has been undergoing what meteorologists describe as explosive cyclogenesis, also referred to as a weather bomb.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Sections of Grand Canyon National Park remained closed Monday as evacuations continued and meteorologists said thunderstorms were likely, along with the chance of more rain throughout the week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
The immediate culprit for these highs is high pressure aloft, which brings a phenomenon meteorologists call “compressional warming.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
The meteorologists are still delivering bad news like a party invitation.
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
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