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Weather bureau

noun

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

... In 1912 a space nearly two and a half times the size of the State of New Jersey was devastated. [Footnote: Seventeen thousand six hundred and five square miles.] In 1913 the loss in a single year was one hundred and sixty million dollars. [Footnote: One hundred and sixty-three million, U. S. Weather Bureau estimate.] In the last thirty years it is estimated the loss has been a half of a billion, and it would have been immensely greater, of course, if the river had not been given unchallenged freedom of great, unclaimed swamps. And yet the river has never ...

— The French in the Heart of America • John Finley

... of the weather, this chair, through some unknown but powerful influence, changed its shape, thus becoming in its own way a sort of government weather bureau. And if in all this "land of the free and home of the brave" there be a single throne, it must be this same curiously changeable chair. In spite of, or perhaps because of, its strange powers, that weird piece ...

— The Shepherd of the Hills • Harold Bell Wright

... 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

... 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***

... doubtfuls to the tract)—don't you see what an enormous advantage he'd have? The class I speak of are the suspicious ones—those who are from Missouri. They're inclined to want salt with what we say about the resources of the country. Even our chemical analysis of the soil, and weather bureau dope, don't go very far with those hicks. They want to talk with someone who has tried ...

— The Flying U's Last Stand • B. M. Bower