weather station

English

A weather station in Germany.

Noun

weather station (plural weather stations)

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

Usage notes

• 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.

Translations

station for meteorological observations

• Arabic: مرصد جوي
• Armenian: օդերևութաբանական կայան (ōderewutʻabanakan kayan)
• Azerbaijani: meteoroloji stansiya
• Basque: estazio meteorologiko
• Belarusian: метэаралагічная станцыя f (mjetearalahičnaja stancyja)
• Bulgarian: метеорологична станция (meteorologična stancija)
• Catalan: estació meteorològica f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 氣象站／气象站 (zh) (qìxiàngzhàn), 氣象臺／气象台 (zh) (qìxiàngtái), 氣象台 (qìxiàngtái)

• Czech: meteorologická stanice f
• Dutch: weerstation (nl)
• Esperanto: veterstacio
• Estonian: ilmajaam (et), meteoroloogiajaam
• Finnish: sääasema, säähavaintoasema
• French: station météorologique f
• Galician: estación meteorolóxica (gl) f
• German: Wetterstation (de) f
• Greek: μετεωρολογικός σταθμός m (meteorologikós stathmós)
• Icelandic: veðurathugunarstöð
• Indonesian: stasiun cuaca
• Italian: stazione meteorologica f, stazione meteorologica f
• Japanese: 気象官署 (きしょうかんしょ, kishō kansho), 気象台 (ja)
• Kazakh: ауа райын болжау станциясы (aua raiyn boljau stansiäsy), метеорологиялық станция (meteorologiälyq stansiä), метеорологиялық станса (meteorologiälyq stansa)
• Korean: 기상관측소(氣象觀測所) (ko) (gisanggwancheukso)
• Kyrgyz: метеорологиялык станция (meteorologiyalık stantsiya)
• Latin: statio meteorologica f, observatorium meteorologicum n
• Latvian: meteostacija f
• Lithuanian: meteorologinė stotis f
• Luxembourgish: Wiederstatioun f
• Malayalam: കാലാവസ്ഥാ നിരീക്ഷണകേന്ദ്രം (kālāvasthā nirīkṣaṇakēndraṁ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: meteorologisk stasjon, værstasjon

  Nynorsk: meteorologisk stasjon, vêrstasjon

• Persian: ایستگاه هواشناسی
• Polish: stacja meteorologiczna f
• Portuguese: estação meteorológica f
• Romanian: stație meteorologică f
• Russian: метеостанция (ru) f (meteostancija)
• Serbo-Croatian: meteorološka postaja f
• Slovak: meteorologická stanica f
• Spanish: estación meteorológica f
• Swahili: kituo cha metorolojia
• Swedish: väderstation (sv)
• Ukrainian: метеорологічна станція f (meteorolohična stancija)

References

• “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.