ombrology

English

Noun

ombrology (uncountable)

1. (rare) The study of rainfall.
   • 1841, The Gardener's Magazine, and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement, page 87:

     Hints for an Essay on Anemology and Ombrology, founded partly on admitted Principles, and partly on Observations and Discoveries, recently made, on the Influence of the Planet Jupiter and its Satellites on our Atmosphere; with a Weather Almanack for 1841. By Peter Leigh, Esq., A.M., Author of "The Music of the Eye."

   • 1881, The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, volume 153, page 446:

     Combined and digested, these observations give us a very intelligible view of the fall of rain that occurs over the island. Yet further multiplied and continued for a series of years, they would reduce our knowledge of the ombrology of the country to the state of definite scientific information.

   • 2013, Dennis Ford, Things Don't Add Up: A Novel of Kennedy Assassination Research, page 100:

     " […] We're so huge a field we even contain a branch of knowledge called 'ombrology' that studies rain." […] "Ombrology?" Josh asked, stressing the syllable 'om.' "Shouldn't the field be called umbrellogy?"