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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



... 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***
... amazed silence, then the young lady snapped: "'Good morning'? What is this, the Weather Bureau? I want Comer ...
— Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories • Rex Beach
... became necessary to commit a number of homicides to get him actually gay. When even the sweet incense of blazing cities and roasting babes failed to restore his hilarity the prophets sounded the alarm much as the weather bureau gives warning of approaching cyclones and other atmospheric disturbances. In case the dire predictions failed to materialize the Lord had listened to their protestations that he was not doing the proper thing and "repented him"—the Immutable had changed his mind! The prophets were supposed ...
— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann
... relative humidity which, at the temperature of an egg chamber, would amount to a variation of three to four hundred of vapor pressure units, which, with the forced draught plan, would ruin a hatch of eggs in a few hours. The sling psychrometer as used by the U.S. Weather Bureau should, in the hands of an expert, give results making possible measurements accurate to two or three per cent. of relative humidity or forty to sixty units of vapor pressure. In contrast with these blundering instruments we now have available an instrument with which the writer ...
— The Dollar Hen • Milo M. Hastings


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