weather-wise

• weatherwise

From weather + wise (“having wisdom”).

weather-wise (comparative more weather-wise, superlative most weather-wise)

1. Skilled in predicting changes in the weather.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 178:

     He glanced with a weatherwise eye at the sky now falling into evening tones - placid and still. "Drought's breaking, but this weather ought to hold for a bit."

2. (figurative) Skilled in predicting changes in conditions, such as of public opinion.

weather +‎ -wise

weather-wise (not comparable)

1. With respect to weather.
   • 1988, Richard Condon, Prizzi's glory, page 1:

     Early in December, a rotten day weatherwise, Charley Partanna, CEO of the Prizzi family, sat behind his desk

   • 2000, Wayne Johnston, Baltimore's Mansion: A Memoir:

     Newfoundland is at the end of the line weather-wise, the last stop for storms that come across the continent or up the Atlantic seaboard