weather map

noun

: a map or chart showing the principal meteorological elements at a given hour and over an extended region

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Earlier this month, the National Weather Service posted an online weather map of rural Idaho created by Artificial Intelligence (AI). Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 25 Jan. 2026 See live weather map Snow was already falling in the Plains including parts of Kansas, Oklahoma and into Missouri, as well as parts of Texas and Arkansas before noon ET on Saturday. Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 25 Jan. 2026 But skies are clear in many other parts of the U.S., weather maps showed. Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025 And the entire North Pacific Ocean Basin is involved in the current marine heat wave, standing out starkly on weather maps. Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for weather map

Word History

First Known Use

1871, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of weather map was in 1871

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“Weather map.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weather%20map. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.

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