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weather station (plural weather stations)

1. A piece of equipment that collects and transmits meteorological information, and can make weather forecasts.

   Synonym: meteorological station

   • 2021 December 1, “Solar-powered weather stations”, in Rail, number 945, page 16:

     Network Rail has installed 60 solar-powered weather stations alongside the West Coast Main Line and across parts of north-west England. [...] NR Service Delivery Manager Talisa Fletcher said: "Our solar-powered weather stations will help us to better understand weather patterns, and during stormy weather we can send our response teams to where they're most needed which will help us to reduce disruption."

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• A first-order weather station is one that takes hourly, around-the-clock measurements of various weather variables. A second-order weather station takes less frequent measurements on fewer variables, while a third-order weather station only measures minimal variables.

参照

• “weather station”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “weather station”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.