meteorologist

From meteorology +‎ -ist.

meteorologist (plural meteorologists)

1. A person who studies meteorology.
2. A weather forecaster.
   • 2019 September 13, Matthew Cappucci, “For the first time in 13 years, a full moon rises this Friday the 13th”, in The Washington Post‎^[1], archived from the original on 29 October 2020:

     For a micromoon and Friday the 13th full moon to occur together is extraordinarily rare. The last time it happened was in 1832 and it won't happen again for more than 500 years according to Tony Rice, a meteorologist and engineer at NASA.

   • 2022 September 6, Jacob Rees-Mogg, quotee, “Jacob Rees-Mogg, who decried ‘climate alarmism’, to take on UK energy brief”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     Rees-Mogg has claimed that “climate alarmism” is responsible for high energy prices and that it is unrealistic for scientists to project future changes to the climate because meteorologists struggle to correctly predict the weather.

Borrowed from French météorologiste. By surface analysis, meteorologie +‎ -ist.

meteorologist m (plural meteorologiști, feminine equivalent meteorologistă)

1. weather forecaster, weatherman

   Synonym: meteorolog

• “meteorologist”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025