the national organization that collects information about the weather in the UK, and provides weather reports for newspapers, radio, and TV, and also for farmers, scientists, airports etc. There is a similar organization in the US called the National Weather Service.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
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