How to Use climatology in a Sentence

climatology

noun
  • But this season has flouted climatology, with many more storms than average.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Based on climatology, three of the locations have some probability greater than zero of snow at this time of the year.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Others include climatology, levels of lakes and rivers, and soil moisture.
    — Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 11 June 2023
  • Fifty years ago this month, the federal government tried to cancel state climatology.
    — The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The analysis was based on climatology, or what California’s weather was like in the past.
    — Jack Lee, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Carbin advises looking at climatology when forecasting the tropics more than seven days out.
    — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The graphic above shows the thunderstorm climatology for the United States.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 5 May 2021
  • From this perspective, the season is off to an early start compared to the climatology over the most recent 30-year period.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • My background is in nuclear chemistry and climatology.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Nov. 2024
  • Local climatology and weather facts are also covered in addition to a Q&A session at the end.
    — chicagotribune.com, 15 Sep. 2019
  • And last winter was the state's warmest since record-keeping began in 1895, according to the state climatology office.
    — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Advance planning, attention to the climatology and forecasts, and a willingness to travel should deliver you to clear skies and a phenomenal show.
    — Jay Anderson, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Knoop is studying atmospheric science while Rhodes is getting her masters in geography with a focus on climatology.
    — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Nov. 2022
  • California is geographically complex, as the topography and climatology vary widely from one end of the state to the other.
    — Allison Chinchar, CNN, 27 Feb. 2022
  • Collar said that, because of Wisconsin’s unique climatology, pneumonia fronts are more common in the Badger State than in most others.
    — Beck Andrew Salgado, Journal Sentinel, 16 May 2023
  • The climatology map above is made exclusively from GOES weather satellites.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Nonetheless, the tool is used across disciplines like climatology and art history, and tree ring chronologies are even used to calibrate radiocarbon dating measurements.
    — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 8 July 2019
  • Funk wound up studying geography at UCSB in a group that focused on statistical climatology.
    — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 15 Apr. 2020
  • The Twin Cities set four daily record-high temperatures in November and had five days when the mercury surpassed 70 degrees, the climatology office said.
    — Tim Harlow, Star Tribune, 6 Jan. 2021
  • Otto Klemm, a professor of climatology at the University of Münster in Germany, is more certain.
    — John Branch, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Yet if apocalypticism is phrased in the rhetoric of visionary metaphor and symbol, then the current climate crisis is rendered in the language of arid climatology and geology, a distinction which makes a huge difference.
    — Ed Simon september 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
  • And forecasters are honing in on the development potential in the open Atlantic during this time and into September, a forecast that lines up with typical climatology.
    — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 10 Aug. 2023
  • This is a European Space Agency satellite that observes the Earth to improve our understanding of oceanography and climatology.
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2012
  • But in the United States, which is still bickering about climatology, evolution and even basic virology, fanatics panic and lash out violently.
    — Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Springtime variability prevails late this week into the weekend, but most days see temperatures running to the cooler side of climatology yet again, keeping April on that cool pace not seen since 2007.
    — Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2018
  • For the first time ever, NOAA will include 15-year normals to better represent a climatology period closer to today.
    — Monica Garrett, CNN, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Temperatures are expected to be warmer than typical for this time of year, which is the coldest, from a climatology perspective, according to the National Weather Service.
    — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 17 Jan. 2023
  • An inadvertent early test of how this could work took place last month, when many of Europe’s attribution scientists gathered at a statistical-climatology meeting in Toulouse, just as the June heatwave hit.
    — The Economist, 25 July 2019
  • Hawkins and McCarthy got to know each other around 2015, when Hawkins started working on historical climate data as part of his larger climatology research program.
    — Grant Currin, Wired, 24 June 2021
  • Weather forecasting can often seem as arcane as gazing into a crystal ball, but the skill lies in analyzing current conditions, identifying weather patterns and applying climatology to produce a reliable prediction for a specific area.
    — Mary Wasson, Austin American Statesman, 9 Sep. 2025

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