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means The scientific study of the atmosphere, its weather and climate, used to understand and forecast conditions like rain, wind, and storms.
from From Greek meteoron, 'a thing high up in the air,' built from meta- ('beyond') and eora ('hovering, suspended') — anything aloft between earth and sky. Aristotle gave the field its name with his treatise Meteorologica, lumping together everything that fell or hung overhead: rain, hail, comets, even shooting stars. That last sense is why a rock from space is still a 'meteor' — a lingering reminder that the word once meant any heavenly thing too high to touch.
- name origin
- from Greek for things high in the air
- chaos limit
- reliable forecasts max out around two weeks
- first balloon
- weather data was once gathered by kites and balloons
- supercomputers
- global models run on Earth's fastest machines
- butterfly effect
- born from a 1960s weather simulation glitch
national weather service — us federal agency established 1870, operates 122 weather forecast offices
japan meteorological agency — established 1875, operates network of 150 weather stations across japan