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• a  of or pertaining to atmospheric phenomena, especially weather and weather conditions
  meteorological factors
  meteorological chart
  meteoric (or meteorological) phenomena

• Each summer and fall, the severe tropical storms known as hurricanes become a major meteorological peril for inhabitants of the Eastern and Gulf Coast states.
• Is this a meteorological record? How do the gorgeous tomatoes grow in the South of France without rain? Yet just this afternoon, the weather turned from hot and sunny to cool and .
• But its that meteorological arcana thats made such a mess of the bayou, and to hear a lot of people tell it, we have only ourselvesand our global-warming waysto blame.

• meteorologic
• meteoric

News & Articles

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• Monsoon Rains Cover India Early, Boost Crop Hopes
  MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's monsoon rains have covered the entire country a month ahead of the normal schedule, increasing the prospects for a bumper output for summer-sown crops such as rice, oilseeds and cotton in one of the world's leading producers. The rains usually cover all of India by mid-July, but this year it happened on June 16, said a senior official at the India Meteorological ...
  June 17, 2013 - Scientific American
• Monsoon rains cover two-thirds of country by June 14
  NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The monsoon had covered two-thirds of the country by Friday, L. S Rathore, the chief of the India Meteorological Department, told reporters on Friday, indicating bountiful rains and ...
  June 14, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! Finance
• Preparing for floods in West Africa
  West African and Sahel countries are setting up measures to minimize flood damage as the annual rainy season approaches. The African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD) in a seasonal weather outlook says near-average or above-average rainfall is likely over the western Sahel, which stretches across Mauritania, Senegal and western and central Niger.
  June 14, 2013 - IRIN

Quotes

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• Jacques Rogge in Birmingham Post
  In these cases, we will analyse with the meteorological experts the predictions of the weather,added Rogge. "We will see the weather, we may have to postpone some events."
• Sharad Pawar in Hindu
  The briefing that India Meteorological Department made this morning (on monsoon situation, I can say the) entire week will be a good week. If this prediction is correct, then I can definitely say we are out of trouble,Agriculture Minister...
• Jose Montilla in AFP
  They were prepared, capable, qualified firefighters. A change in meteorological conditions caused them to lose their lives,the head of the Catalan regional government, Jose Montilla, told a news conference.