weather bureau

n. An agency responsible for the gathering and interpreting of meteorological data for weather study and forecasts.

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weather bureau - an administrative unit responsible for gathering and interpreting meteorological data for weather study and forecastsadministrative body, administrative unit - a unit with administrative responsibilities

Weather Bureau

an organization that supplies the population and various branches of the economy with weather forecasts, information about present and past weather, and special warnings of anticipated dangerous weather (hurricanes, gales, snowstorms, thunderstorms, rainstorms, frosts, and so on). In the USSR and several other countries weather bureaus also compile forecasts and current information on river and sea conditions and the state of plantings of agricultural crops. The first weather bureau in Russia, attached to the Main Geophysical Observatory, was opened in 1872 in St. Petersburg. In the USSR there are weather bureaus in the capitals of the union republics and in a number of cities of the RSFSR and Ukrainian SSR.

A. I. SAMOILOV

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weather bureau

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noun an administrative unit responsible for gathering and interpreting meteorological data for weather study and forecasts

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administrative body
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