weather-wise

comparative more weather-wise · superlative most weather-wise · alternative weatherwise

1. Skilled in predicting changes in the weather.

   He glanced with a weatherwise eye at the sky now falling into evening tones - placid and still. "Drought's breaking, but this weather ought to hold for a bit."

   1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 178

2. figurativelySkilled in predicting changes in conditions, such as of public opinion.

alternative weatherwise

1. not comparableWith respect to weather.

   Early in December, a rotten day weatherwise, Charley Partanna, CEO of the Prizzi family, sat behind his desk

   1988, Richard Condon, Prizzi's glory, page 1

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   Newfoundland is at the end of the line weather-wise, the last stop for storms that come across the continent or up the Atlantic seaboard

   2000, Wayne Johnston, Baltimore's Mansion: A Memoir