The word 'meteorological' is correct and usable in written English
It relates to the study and prediction of weather patterns and phenomena. Example: The meteorological department has forecasted heavy rain and thunderstorms for the next few days.
But the meteorological satellite operator knew that she wanted a child with her new husband, and in vitro fertilisation was necessary.
Similarly, environmental pressures such as meteorological variation leads to a high fall in yields.
Related: Novak Djokovic beats Andy Murray to reach French Open final – as it happened The Scot later sidestepped suggestions that Djokovic had at least stretched the boundaries of propriety when, having been two sets up on Friday night, he took an eight-minute medical timeout after losing the third set in fading light with a storm brewing (both meteorological and metaphorical).
Brahma Prakash Yadav, director of the Indian meteorological department, said though maximum temperatures would remain high until the weekend, rain would bring some relief early next week (PDF).
Their readings are combined with data from traditional measurement towers equipped with meteorological instruments, as well as past-weather data.
As for the self-deception, this is sometimes farcical: Catalan public television offers a weather forecast that includes provinces that have been part of France since 1659, but no meteorological information for Zaragoza or Madrid.
And they also serve as a forum for political gestures to be made for fingers to be stuck in the air for non-meteorological reasons.Normally, such gestures are the purview of international AIDS activists those for whom drug companies are always wicked, politicians never sufficiently concerned, and no pot of money ever big enough.
There is also an academic journal which publishes most of them: the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society BAMS).Though the groups use somewhat different approaches, their conclusions are strikingly similar.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), part of the United Nations, organises the free exchange of data among 185 member states.
A grander solution, outlined in a forthcoming Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, would be to provide a single online databank of all temperature data and analysis.
This is what has been happening in Russia for the past two months.According to Geert Jan van Oldenborgh of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, a straightforward comparison of the temperatures seen in European Russia this summer with those of the past 60 years suggests that a lot of the country is experiencing temperatures which might be expected only once every 400 years or so.
