[f. ASTRO- + METEOROLOGY.] The investigation of the (alleged) influence upon the weather, climate, etc., of planetary and stellar phenomena, such as sun-spots, phases of the moon, comets, meteors, planetary conjunctions. This was a branch of the older natural astrology; and the term is often applied to a pretended prognostication of the weather, which is no better than modern ‘astrology.’
[1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Astrometeorologia, the art of foretelling the weather, and its changes, from the aspects and configurations of the moon and planets.]
1862. Scot. Rev., 402. Men had transformed Astro-meteorology into meteorology, or weather-lore into the science of the Atmosphere.
Hence Astrometeorological a., and Astrometeorologist.
1693. Phil. Trans., XVII. 893. Earthquakes he shews … to be caused by the Stars, according to the Principles of the Astro-meteorological Art.
1864. Intell. Observ., No. 32. 104. The Astro-meteorologists, as they call themselves.
1866. Lond. Rev., 1 Dec., 596/2. Lunarists, cyclists, and astro-meteorologists must confess that they have been utterly baffled in their vaticinations by this singular year.
1869. F. Pratt, in Eng. Mech., 19 March, 587/3. My only connection with Zadkiel was one of opposition to him in the Astro-Meteorological Society.
