However, tornado forecasts were only available to Air Force weather offices and were still not issued by the Weather Bureau.

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In the 1950s, needing the price of onions to rise, he bribed the weather bureau to issue a frost warning.

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The Central Weather Bureau said the tremor had a relatively shallow depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles).

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The national weather bureau has warned extremely hot conditions are expected across much of the country next week.

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In 1953, the U.S. Weather Bureau established the Severe Local Storms Center, known as SELS. The first tornado watches issued by SELS usually covered an average area of 27, 000 square miles.

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In France, the heavy snowfall was not expected to end until Monday evening at the earliest, according to weather bureau Meteo France.

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The U.S. Weather Bureau started reporting tornadoes, thunderstorms, hailstorms, lightning and high winds at a few experimental locations across the United States in spring 1943.

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Flash floods left as much as five inches of rain in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina, on Monday night, said Darin Figurskey, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service's Raleigh bureau.

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However, the upward trend is unlikely to continue as the holiday effect fades and warmer weather starts to bolster food supplies, said Yu Qiumei, a senior statistician with the bureau, suggesting CPI growth will ease this month.

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