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Wearable technology
Wearable technology, or wearables, refers to electronic devices worn on the body, including smartwatches, fitness trackers, smart rings, and smart glasses, that provide hands-free computing.
Wearing Hu clothing and shooting from horseback
Wearing Hu clothing and shooting from horseback (胡服骑射) was a military and dress reform of Warring States China, ordered by King Wuling of Zhao to adopt Hu dress and mounted archery.
Wearside Jack
Wearside Jack was John Samuel Humble, the Sunderland hoaxer who sent letters and an 'I'm Jack' tape posing as the Yorkshire Ripper in 1978-1979, diverting the Sutcliffe inquiry, identified by DNA in 2005 and jailed eight years in 2006.
Weasel
Weasel (Mustela nivalis), least weasel, smallest carnivore: long thin mustelid of the Holarctic, 30-100 g, metabolism 50-100% above same-weight mammals, eats over half its body weight daily, introduced to New Zealand in the 1880s.
Weasel (Marvel Comics)
Weasel (Jack Hammer), Marvel Comics character, Deadpool's weapons supplier and information broker; debuted in Cable #3 (1993), created by Fabian Nicieza and Joe Madureira; alias Patient Zero; played by T.J. Miller in the Deadpool films.
Weasel word
Weasel word: vague or ambiguous wording that implies a specific claim without making one; first used in Stewart Chaplin's 1900 story, popularized by Theodore Roosevelt; distinct from hedging.
Weather
Weather is the state of the atmosphere at a place over the short term, minutes to days, measured through temperature, precipitation, wind, and cloudiness, distinct from climate.
Weather (Huey Lewis and the News album)
Weather (2020) is the tenth and likely final studio album by Huey Lewis and the News, released February 14, 2020 on BMG; seven songs, 26 minutes, first original album since 2001's Plan B, recorded before Lewis's Ménière's hearing loss.
Weather balloon
A weather balloon, or sounding balloon, is a balloon inflated with hydrogen or helium that carries a radiosonde transmitting pressure, temperature, and humidity measurements as it rises.
Weather buoy
A weather buoy is a moored or drifting floating platform that automatically measures and transmits ocean weather data such as wind, air and sea temperature, pressure, and waves.
Weather derivative
A weather derivative is a financial contract whose payoff depends on a measured weather index, like heating degree days, rather than on a proven loss, letting buyers hedge weather risk.
Weather forecasting
Weather forecasting, also called meteorological forecasting, is the application of science and technology to predict the atmosphere at a future time and location, chiefly through numerical weather prediction.
Weather front
A weather front is a boundary between air masses of different temperature or moisture, along which mid-latitude cloud and rain concentrate. Cold, warm, occluded, and stationary fronts are the main types.
Weather god
Weather god: a deity controlling rain, thunder, wind, and storms, also called storm god. Named examples include Adad/Iškur/Teššub/Tarhunza, Baal, Zeus, Indra, and Tlaloc; drier climates predict such beliefs.
Weather Hunters
Weather Hunters (also WeatherHunters) is a 2025 PBS KIDS animated series created by Al Roker for ages 5-8, following 8-year-old weather detective Lily Hunter and her family; Al Roker voices Al Hunter, and it is PBS KIDS' first weather-focused series, premiering September 8, 2025.
Weather map
A weather map, also called a weather chart, uses symbols, lines, and colors to show atmospheric conditions such as pressure, fronts, and temperature over a region.
Weather modification
Weather modification, also called weather control, is the deliberate alteration of weather, chiefly by seeding clouds with substances like silver iodide to increase rain or suppress hail.
Weather of 2025
The weather of 2025 was the second or third warmest year on record at about 1.44 °C above pre-industrial averages, and the warmest without an El Niño.
Weather of 2026
The weather of 2026 was shaped by a strong El Niño and record global heat, bringing a record-quiet Atlantic hurricane season and a record March heat wave in the western United States.
Weather presenter
A weather presenter is a broadcaster who delivers weather forecasts on television or radio, translating meteorological data into short, unscripted live segments for a general audience.
Weather presenting
Weather presenting is the broadcast craft of delivering weather information on radio or television, combining newscaster delivery skills with interpretation of meteorological data, a field credentialed by the American Meteorological Society.
Weather radar
Weather radar, also known as Doppler weather radar or rain radar, is a ground-based instrument that detects the location, intensity, and motion of precipitation in real time.
Weather Report
Weather Report was an American jazz fusion band formed in New York City in 1970 by Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, and Miroslav Vitouš, all former Miles Davis sidemen.
Weather Research and Forecasting Model
The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model is an open-source numerical weather prediction system, first released in 2000, that simulates wind, temperature, and precipitation over regional domains for forecasting and research.
Weather satellite
A weather satellite, also called a meteorological satellite, is an Earth-observation spacecraft that measures the atmosphere from orbit. Geostationary satellites watch one hemisphere continuously, while polar-orbiters circle the planet 14 times a day.
Weather ship
A weather ship, also called an ocean station vessel, was a ship stationed at a fixed position in the ocean to make surface and upper-air observations for weather forecasting.
Weather station
A weather station, also known as a meteorological station or weather observatory, is a fixed facility with instruments measuring temperature, humidity, pressure, wind, and precipitation for forecasting and climate records.
Weather Underground
Weather Underground (Weathermen, WUO): American militant group formed from SDS in 1969, bombed the Capitol, Pentagon, and State Department 1970-1975, evaded the FBI, dissolved 1976; namesake of the 1995 weather website.
Weather Underground (weather service)
Weather Underground, also known as Wunderground, is an American commercial weather service known for hyperlocal forecasts from a network of over 400,000 personal weather stations.
Weather vane
A weather vane, also called a wind vane or weathercock, is an instrument that shows wind direction from rooftops and steeples, its narrow end turning into the wind.