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weather station

American  

noun

  1. an installation equipped and used for meteorological observation.


weather station British  

noun

  1. one of a network of meteorological observation posts where weather data is recorded

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of weather station

First recorded in 1905–10

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Murrell made several purchases for a Netatmo weather station including rain gauges, wireless anemometers with wind speed and direction sensors and a mount.

From BBC Jun. 23, 2026

Temperature readings at a Paris airport earned a mystery trader $21,000—and sparked a probe into alleged tampering with a weather station.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 23, 2026

"Once we understood this, the blips in dimming stopped being weird little mysteries and became a space weather station," Bouma exclaimed.

From Science Daily Mar. 27, 2026

The landslide followed record rainfall, with a nearby weather station receiving over 10 inches in the prior 24 hours.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 22, 2026

As it was, the men had difficulty just getting the weather station door open and needed all their strength to keep Pagliuca from becoming a kind of human kite.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

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