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108 relations: Airband, Aircraft pilot, Airport, Altimeter, Altimeter setting, Anemometer, Atmospheric icing, Atmospheric pressure, Automatic terminal information service, Automatic weather station, Automation, Aviation, Belfort Instrument Company, Belvedere Castle, Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, Boston, Broadcasting, Bucket, Canada, Capacitance, Ceiling (cloud), Ceilometer, Celsius, Central Park, Climate, Climatology, Cloud cover, Compass, Degree (angle), Density altitude, Dew point, Dissemination, Drizzle, Dust, Electricity, Fog, Foot (unit), Freezing, Freezing rain, Frost, Funnel, Hail, Hard rime, Haze, Ice, Ice pellets, Inch, Inch of mercury, Infrared, Knot (unit), ..., Laser, Lever, Light-emitting diode, Lightning, Lightning detection, Massachusetts, Mercury (element), Mercury switch, Mesonet, METAR, Meteorology, Mile, Mist, Modem, National Weather Service, New York City, Okta, Parameter, Particulates, Photodiode, Precipitation, QNH, Radio frequency, Rain, Rain gauge, Reed switch, Relative direction, Relative humidity, Resistance thermometer, Resonance, Runway, Sensor, Smoke, Snow, Speech synthesis, Speed, Surface weather analysis, Surface weather observation, Switch, SYNOP, Temperature, Thunderstorm, Tornado, Transducer, Transmissometer, Triangulation, Ultrasound, United States, Vaisala, Very high frequency, Visibility, Volcano, Water, Weather, Weather forecasting, Weather station, Weather vane, Wind. Expand index (58 more) »
Airband
Airband or aircraft band is the name for a group of frequencies in the VHF radio spectrum allocated to radio communication in civil aviation, sometimes also referred to as VHF, or phonetically as "Victor".
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Aircraft pilot
An aircraft pilot or aviator is a person who controls the flight of an aircraft by operating its directional flight controls.
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Airport
An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport.
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Altimeter
An altimeter or an altitude meter is an instrument used to measure the altitude of an object above a fixed level.
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Altimeter setting
Altimeter setting is the value of the atmospheric pressure used to adjust the sub-scale of a pressure altimeter so that it indicates the height of an aircraft above a known reference surface.
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Anemometer
An anemometer is a device used for measuring the speed of wind, and is also a common weather station instrument.
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Atmospheric icing
Atmospheric icing occurs when water droplets in the atmosphere freeze on objects they contact.
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Atmospheric pressure
Atmospheric pressure, sometimes also called barometric pressure, is the pressure within the atmosphere of Earth (or that of another planet).
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Automatic terminal information service
Automatic terminal information service, or ATIS, is a continuous broadcast of recorded aeronautical information in busier terminal areas, i.e. airports and their immediate surroundings.
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Automatic weather station
An automatic weather station (AWS) is an automated version of the traditional weather station, either to save human labour or to enable measurements from remote areas.
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Automation
Automation is the technology by which a process or procedure is performed without human assistance.
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Aviation
Aviation, or air transport, refers to the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry.
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Belfort Instrument Company
Belfort Instrument Company is a company that makes various meteorological products, including the DigiWx Automated Weather System, which has been installed in various airports.
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Belvedere Castle
Belvedere Castle is a folly in Central Park in Manhattan, New York City.
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Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory
The Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, also known as Great Blue Hill Weather Observatory, Blue Hill Weather Observatory, or simply the Blue Hill Observatory, in Milton, Massachusetts is the foremost structure associated with the history of weather observations in the United States.
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Boston
Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
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Broadcasting
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves), in a one-to-many model.
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Bucket
A bucket is typically a watertight, vertical cylinder or truncated cone or square, with an open top and a flat bottom, attached to a semicircular carrying handle called the bail.
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Canada
Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.
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Capacitance
Capacitance is the ratio of the change in an electric charge in a system to the corresponding change in its electric potential.
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Ceiling (cloud)
In aviation, ceiling is a measurement of the height of the base of the lowest clouds (not to be confused with cloud base which has a specific definition) that cover more than half of the sky (more than 4 oktas) relative to the ground.
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Ceilometer
A ceilometer is a device that uses a laser or other light source to determine the height of a cloud ceiling or cloud base.
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Celsius
The Celsius scale, previously known as the centigrade scale, is a temperature scale used by the International System of Units (SI).
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Central Park
Central Park is an urban park in Manhattan, New York City.
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Climate
Climate is the statistics of weather over long periods of time.
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Climatology
Climatology (from Greek κλίμα, klima, "place, zone"; and -λογία, -logia) or climate science is the scientific study of climate, scientifically defined as weather conditions averaged over a period of time.
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Cloud cover
'Cloud cover' (also known as 'cloudiness', 'cloudage', or 'cloud amount') refers to the fraction of the sky obscured by clouds when observed from a particular location.
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Compass
A compass is an instrument used for navigation and orientation that shows direction relative to the geographic cardinal directions (or points).
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Degree (angle)
A degree (in full, a degree of arc, arc degree, or arcdegree), usually denoted by ° (the degree symbol), is a measurement of a plane angle, defined so that a full rotation is 360 degrees.
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Density altitude
The density altitude is the altitude relative to standard atmospheric conditions at which the air density would be equal to the indicated air density at the place of observation.
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Dew point
The dew point is the temperature to which air must be cooled to become saturated with water vapor.
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Dissemination
To disseminate (from lat. disseminare "scattering seeds"), in the field of communication, means to broadcast a message to the public without direct feedback from the audience.
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Drizzle
Drizzle is a light liquid precipitation consisting of liquid water drops smaller than those of rain – generally smaller than in diameter.
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Dust
Dust are fine particles of matter.
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Electricity
Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of electric charge.
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Fog
Fog is a visible aerosol consisting of minute water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth's surface.
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Foot (unit)
The foot (feet; abbreviation: ft; symbol: ′, the prime symbol) is a unit of length in the imperial and US customary systems of measurement.
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Freezing
Freezing, or solidification, is a phase transition in which a liquid turns into a solid when its temperature is lowered below its freezing point.
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Freezing rain
Freezing rain is the name given to rain precipitation maintained at temperatures below freezing by the ambient air mass that causes freezing on contact with surfaces.
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Frost
Frost is the coating or deposit of ice that may form in humid air in cold conditions, usually overnight.
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Funnel
A funnel is a pipe with a wide (often conical) mouth and a narrow stem.
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Hail
Hail is a form of solid precipitation.
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Hard rime
Hard rime is a white ice that forms when the water droplets in fog freeze to the outer surfaces of objects.
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Haze
Haze is traditionally an atmospheric phenomenon in which dust, smoke, and other dry particulates obscure the clarity of the sky.
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Ice
Ice is water frozen into a solid state.
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Ice pellets
Ice pellets are a form of precipitation consisting of small, translucent balls of ice.
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Inch
The inch (abbreviation: in or &Prime) is a unit of length in the (British) imperial and United States customary systems of measurement now formally equal to yard but usually understood as of a foot.
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Inch of mercury
Inch of mercury (inHg and ″Hg) is a unit of measurement for pressure.
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Infrared
Infrared radiation (IR) is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) with longer wavelengths than those of visible light, and is therefore generally invisible to the human eye (although IR at wavelengths up to 1050 nm from specially pulsed lasers can be seen by humans under certain conditions). It is sometimes called infrared light.
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Knot (unit)
The knot is a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour, exactly 1.852 km/h (approximately 1.15078 mph).
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Laser
A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation.
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Lever
A lever is a simple machine consisting of a beam or rigid rod pivoted at a fixed hinge, or fulcrum.
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Light-emitting diode
A light-emitting diode (LED) is a two-lead semiconductor light source.
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Lightning
Lightning is a sudden electrostatic discharge that occurs typically during a thunderstorm.
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Lightning detection
A lightning detector is a device that detects lightning produced by thunderstorms.
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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Mercury (element)
Mercury is a chemical element with symbol Hg and atomic number 80.
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Mercury switch
A mercury switch is an electrical switch that opens and closes a circuit when a small amount of the liquid metal mercury connects metal electrodes to close the circuit.
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Mesonet
In meteorology (and climatology), a mesonet, portmanteau of mesoscale network, is a network of (typically) automated weather and environmental monitoring stations designed to observe mesoscale meteorological phenomena.
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METAR
METAR is a format for reporting weather information.
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Meteorology
Meteorology is a branch of the atmospheric sciences which includes atmospheric chemistry and atmospheric physics, with a major focus on weather forecasting.
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Mile
The mile is an English unit of length of linear measure equal to 5,280 feet, or 1,760 yards, and standardised as exactly 1,609.344 metres by international agreement in 1959.
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Mist
Mist is a phenomenon caused by small droplets of water suspended in air.
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Modem
A modem (modulator–demodulator) is a network hardware device that modulates one or more carrier wave signals to encode digital information for transmission and demodulates signals to decode the transmitted information.
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National Weather Service
The National Weather Service (NWS) is an agency of the United States Federal Government that is tasked with providing weather forecasts, warnings of hazardous weather, and other weather-related products to organizations and the public for the purposes of protection, safety, and general information.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Okta
In meteorology, an okta is a unit of measurement used to describe the amount of cloud cover at any given location such as a weather station.
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Parameter
A parameter (from the Ancient Greek παρά, para: "beside", "subsidiary"; and μέτρον, metron: "measure"), generally, is any characteristic that can help in defining or classifying a particular system (meaning an event, project, object, situation, etc.). That is, a parameter is an element of a system that is useful, or critical, when identifying the system, or when evaluating its performance, status, condition, etc.
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Particulates
Atmospheric aerosol particles, also known as atmospheric particulate matter, particulate matter (PM), particulates, or suspended particulate matter (SPM) are microscopic solid or liquid matter suspended in Earth's atmosphere.
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Photodiode
A photodiode is a semiconductor device that converts light into an electrical current.
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Precipitation
In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls under gravity.
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QNH
QNH is a Q code indicating the atmospheric pressure adjusted to mean sea level.
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Radio frequency
Radio frequency (RF) refers to oscillatory change in voltage or current in a circuit, waveguide or transmission line in the range extending from around twenty thousand times per second to around three hundred billion times per second, roughly between the upper limit of audio and the lower limit of infrared.
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Rain
Rain is liquid water in the form of droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then becomes heavy enough to fall under gravity.
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Rain gauge
A rain gauge (also known as an udometer, pluviometer, or an ombrometer) is an instrument used by meteorologists and hydrologists to gather and measure the amount of liquid precipitation over a set period of time.
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Reed switch
The reed switch is an electrical switch operated by an applied magnetic field.
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Relative direction
The most common relative directions are left, right, forward(s), backward(s), up, and down.
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Relative humidity
Relative humidity (RH) is the ratio of the partial pressure of water vapor to the equilibrium vapor pressure of water at a given temperature.
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Resistance thermometer
Resistance thermometers, also called resistance temperature detectors (RTDs), are sensors used to measure temperature.
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Resonance
In physics, resonance is a phenomenon in which a vibrating system or external force drives another system to oscillate with greater amplitude at specific frequencies.
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Runway
According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft".
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Sensor
In the broadest definition, a sensor is a device, module, or subsystem whose purpose is to detect events or changes in its environment and send the information to other electronics, frequently a computer processor.
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Smoke
Smoke is a collection of airborne solid and liquid particulates and gases emitted when a material undergoes combustion or pyrolysis, together with the quantity of air that is entrained or otherwise mixed into the mass.
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Snow
Snow refers to forms of ice crystals that precipitate from the atmosphere (usually from clouds) and undergo changes on the Earth's surface.
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Speech synthesis
Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech.
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Speed
In everyday use and in kinematics, the speed of an object is the magnitude of its velocity (the rate of change of its position); it is thus a scalar quantity.
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Surface weather analysis
Surface weather analysis is a special type of weather map that provides a view of weather elements over a geographical area at a specified time based on information from ground-based weather stations.
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Surface weather observation
Surface weather observations are the fundamental data used for safety as well as climatological reasons to forecast weather and issue warnings worldwide.
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Switch
In electrical engineering, a switch is an electrical component that can "make" or "break" an electrical circuit, interrupting the current or diverting it from one conductor to another.
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SYNOP
SYNOP (surface synoptic observations) is a numerical code (called FM-12 by WMO) used for reporting weather observations made by manned and automated weather stations.
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Temperature
Temperature is a physical quantity expressing hot and cold.
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Thunderstorm
A thunderstorm, also known as an electrical storm, lightning storm, or thundershower, is a storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere, known as thunder.
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Tornado
A tornado is a rapidly rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud.
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Transducer
A transducer is a device that converts energy from one form to another.
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Transmissometer
A transmissometer is an instrument for measuring the extinction coefficient of the atmosphere and sea water, and for the determination of visual range.
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Triangulation
In trigonometry and geometry, triangulation is the process of determining the location of a point by forming triangles to it from known points.
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Ultrasound
Ultrasound is sound waves with frequencies higher than the upper audible limit of human hearing.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Vaisala
Vaisala is a Finnish company that develops, manufactures and markets products and services for environmental and industrial measurement.
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Very high frequency
Very high frequency (VHF) is the ITU designation for the range of radio frequency electromagnetic waves (radio waves) from 30 to 300 megahertz (MHz), with corresponding wavelengths of ten to one meter.
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Visibility
In meteorology, visibility is a measure of the distance at which an object or light can be clearly discerned.
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Volcano
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
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Water
Water is a transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance that is the main constituent of Earth's streams, lakes, and oceans, and the fluids of most living organisms.
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Weather
Weather is the state of the atmosphere, describing for example the degree to which it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy.
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Weather forecasting
Weather forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the conditions of the atmosphere for a given location and time.
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Weather station
A weather station is a facility, either on land or sea, with instruments and equipment for measuring atmospheric conditions to provide information for weather forecasts and to study the weather and climate.
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Weather vane
A weather vane, wind vane, or weathercock is an instrument for showing the direction of the wind.
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Wind
Wind is the flow of gases on a large scale.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_airport_weather_station
