New Zealand's weather bureau told local media the worst was likely over.
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A warning for sea traffic was also issued by the Central Weather Bureau.
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The weather bureau pegs the chance of a La Nina at 50 percent.
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It weakened after hitting the land mass, the weather bureau said on Friday.
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The weather bureau said the typhoon made its eighth and last landfall at 1 p.m.
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It is set to leave the Philippines on Wednesday night, the state weather bureau said.
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In 1949, the U.S. Weather Bureau launched Project Gabriel, a classified meteorological study of weapons and weather.
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Australia's weather bureau earlier this month pegged the chance of an El Niño developing at 50 percent.
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The storm was moving northward at 15 kph and was gradually weakening, Xinhua reported, citing the weather bureau.
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Before the storm made landfall, China's weather bureau issued a "red alert" — the most severe type of warning.
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Haima weakened over land on Thursday, prompting the weather bureau to lift storm warning signals in some areas.
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China's state weather bureau said it was among the ten most powerful typhoons to hit the region since 1949.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's weather bureau said on Wednesday that it appears that the latest El Nino phenomenon has ended.
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The weather bureau forecast warmer than average days and nights for most of Australia over the next three months.
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The weather bureau said wind caused by the storm this week could be strong enough to blow away cars.
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Australia's weather bureau warned this week a threshold for a new La Nina will likely be breached by September.
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Dry weather will persist across Australia until at least the end of September, the country's weather bureau said on Thursday.
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This season Fiji's weather bureau expects "elevated" cyclone activity in the region, and predicts three cyclones to hit the archipelago.
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The storm will continue toward China, approaching the eastern commercial hub of Shanghai over the weekend, the weather bureau said.
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But the rest of spring and December are still predicted to yield below-average falls, according to the weather bureau.
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The Taiwan weather bureau issued land and sea warnings, urging people to be on alert for severe weather and flooding.
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" Riechelderfer added that the Weather Bureau would not begin acquiring its own nuclear arsenal "until we know what we're doing.
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"Apart from heavy rains, there will be huge wind gusts," Hsieh Ming-chang, a Central Weather Bureau official, said on television.
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Mangkhut might slightly weaken after landfall but could still be "very destructive", said Rene Paciente, assistant chief at the weather bureau.
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Taiwan's weather bureau issued wind and rain warnings for greater Taipei, the northern port city of Keelung and other northern counties.
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Japan is expected to have warmer-than-usual weather between this month and January 2020, the weather bureau said last week.
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Even the use of the word "tornado" in forecasts was discouraged until 1950, when the Weather Bureau officially changed its policy.
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The local weather bureau also warned that the extreme heat and drought in the province were likely to affect its corn crop.
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The Australian weather bureau said a La Nina weather event remains a possibility, though neutral conditions are slightly favored by weather models.
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It is the first time the island has issued alerts for two storms simultaneously in 50 years, the Central Weather Bureau said.
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As early as 1919, the Weather Bureau paid pilots to strap devices that recorded temperature, humidity and atmospheric pressure to their planes.
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Western Japan has a 50 percent chance of experiencing above-average temperatures over the month, the country's weather bureau said this week.
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"The typhoon is very strong and destructive because of its large diameter," said Rene Paciente, assistant weather services chief at the weather bureau.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 4.9 shook parts of Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, on Monday, the island's Central Weather Bureau said.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's weather bureau said on Tuesday there is a 50 percent chance that El Niño could break out in the autumn.
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The weather bureau has lowered storm warning signals but said it was keeping a close watch on the next weather disturbance named Haima.
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By Monday, more than 100 people remained trapped by floodwaters, mostly in the country's southern counties, according to the government's Central Weather Bureau.
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Heavy rain, flooding and dangerous storm tides are feared, and the weather bureau said winds could be strong enough to blow away cars.
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The storm was packing 155 kph (96 mph) wind speeds and gusts of up to 235 kph (03003 mph), the weather bureau said.
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Bangladesh's weather bureau, meanwhile, has forecast another spell of floods could hit the low-lying country of more than 160 million people this month.
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The weather bureau raised storm warning signals for the northern and eastern parts of main island of Luzon, home to industrial and export centers.
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The government's weather bureau illustrated its online account of the discovery with a picture of zombie-looking figures in hazmat suits shrouded by haze.
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Australia's cyber security agency has also previously blamed a foreign intelligence service, without identifying it, for a 2015 malware attack on the weather bureau.
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Typhoon Bailu, categorized at the weakest typhoon level by Taiwan's weather bureau, was expected to approach off the island's southeastern coast early on Saturday.
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China's weather bureau also issued its first ever fog red alert on Tuesday, saying that visibility could fall below 50 meters across northern China.
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This is a notch-up from Japan's weather bureau, which last week increased the likelihood of La Nina from 50 percent to 60 percent.
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Japan, the world's largest LNG importer, is expected to have warmer-than-usual weather through January 2020, the weather bureau said in late October.
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The weather bureau has warned of extensive flooding and landslides as the storm, packing center winds of 65 kph (40 mph), approaches the Philippines.
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Warmer ocean temperatures have increased the chances of cyclones developing near Australia during the November to April cyclone season, Australia's weather bureau said this month.
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A 0003-magnitude earthquake struck off Taiwan's northeastern coast on Thursday, the island's weather bureau said, shaking buildings and cutting power to around 2,000 buildings.
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Australia's weather bureau on Friday said that the Southern summer just ended was its hottest since national records began in 1910, and among the 10 driest.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's north is forecast to receive above average rainfall over the next three months, the country's weather bureau said on Thursday, boosting cattle herds.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's weather bureau said on Friday it sees a 50 percent chance of the El Nino weather pattern emerging by the beginning of autumn.
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In 1875, Cleveland Abbe (1836-1916), the first director of the U.S. Weather Bureau, lobbied the American Meteorological Society to use its influence on spur action.
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An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck Taiwan's coastal city of Hualien on Thursday, the weather bureau said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
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Jen Li-yu, an official with the Central Weather Bureau, said the storm would lose strength after it made landfall though flooding and strong winds would continue.
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Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau put its sustained winds at 173 kph (108 mph) and said the bands of wind and rains around the storm's eye were shrinking.
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Thursday's earthquake off the northeast coast prompted warnings of landslides as the weather bureau forecast rainfall of up to 900 mm (35 inches) in Taiwan's northern mountains.
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Talim was expected to gain in strength as it sweeps toward Taiwan's northern cities, lashing them with strong wind and heavy rain, the Central Weather Bureau said.
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The Tongan weather bureau said it expected winds to reach as high as 95-110 km per hour (60-70 mph), while heavy rains were also forecast.
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The weather bureau declares the arrival of monsoon rains only after measures including consistency of rainfall over a defined geography, intensity, cloudiness and wind speed are met.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's weather bureau said on Monday there is a 70% chance the El Nino weather pattern will extend into the northern hemisphere summer this year.
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It was probably the coldest weather in the city since the American Revolution, James H. Scarr, the chief meteorologist at the local weather bureau, said at the time.
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Australia's scorching and widespread heat waves throughout this summer propelled the national average temperature to a new all-time high for the season, according to its weather bureau.
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MELBOURNE, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Australia endured its hottest month on record in January, with sweltering conditions expected to persist through April, the country's weather bureau said on Friday.
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In 2016 the agency said it responded to 1,095 cyber attacks over an 18-month period, including an intrusion from a foreign intelligence service on the weather bureau.
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The country's weather bureau on Tuesday said that climate change could cause more extreme weather events, following floods, drought and extreme high temperatures in some regions this year.
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The Banda Sea quake, which struck at a depth of 171.5 kilometers (106.6 miles), was felt in Australia's northern city of Darwin, according to the country's weather bureau.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - There is a 60% chance of no El Nino or La Nina occurring from now through the northern hemisphere spring, Japan's weather bureau said on Tuesday.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's weather bureau said on Tuesday there is a 60% chance of no El Nino or La Nina occurring from now through the northern hemisphere spring.
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The weather bureau said the storm had gathered strength over the Sulu Sea and was packing winds of up 2003 kph (50 mph) and moving west at 20 kph.
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"Very destructive winds with gusts to 170 km/h are possible near the cyclone center as it makes landfall later on Saturday or early Sunday," the weather bureau said.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - A 5.6 magnitude earthquake struck Taiwan's southeastern county of Taitung on Wednesday, the island's weather bureau said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
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A heat wave that has swept across northern China, including the capital Beijing, is expected to last until next week, the Hebei Daily said, citing the local weather bureau.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's weather bureau said on Monday there is a 60% chance there will be no El Nino or La Nina from now through the northern hemisphere spring.
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The weather bureau said the storm had gathered strength over the Sulu Sea and was packing winds of up 80 kph (50 mph) and moving west at 20 kph.
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The weather bureau said a wide arc of outback stretching some 400 km (250 miles) from Mt. Isa, an outback mining town, to Richmond in the east was inundated.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's weather bureau said on Friday there is a 60% chance there will be no El Nino or La Nina from now through the northern hemisphere winter.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's weather bureau said on Tuesday there is a 60% chance there will be no El Nino or La Nina from now through the northern hemisphere winter.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's weather bureau said on Thursday there is a 60% chance there will be no El Nino or La Nina from now through the northern hemisphere winter.
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The weather bureau recorded 204mm of rain in two hours on Monday night — more than twice the average for heavy rainfall in Vietnam's largest city, which hovers between 50-100mm.
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Dry weather will persist across Australia until at least the end of September, the country's weather bureau said on Thursday, in a forecast that threatens to further lower wheat production.
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At one point a super typhoon, Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau has downgraded Maria to a medium-strength storm with wind gusts of up to 209 km per hour (129 mph).
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's weather bureau on Wednesday said the El Nino weather pattern appeared to be continuing, with an 80 percent chance it would stretch into the northern hemisphere summer.
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The students and the teacher were training about 100 miles north of Tokyo, in an area where the weather bureau had issued an avalanche warning urging caution a day earlier.
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In 1930, not long before his 18th birthday, he was recruited by a neighbor, Ernest S. Clowes, a natural-history writer, to help the Weather Bureau install instruments on the farm.
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A tropical low has formed off the coast of far north Queensland which the weather bureau says has a moderate chance of developing into a cyclone over the next few days.
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TOKYO, April 10 (Reuters) - Japan's weather bureau on Wednesday said the El Nino weather pattern appeared to be continuing, with an 80 percent chance it would stretch into the northern hemisphere summer.
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The New Caledonia weather bureau said the weather system - which peaked at a category-three event - has since weakened and is expected to track towards New Zealand over the next few days.
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It was deliberately left open and did not have windows until 1919, when some remodeling was done to accommodate equipment for the Weather Bureau, as the National Weather Service was then known.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will have to wait until March for rains heavy enough to bring sustained relief from dry weather that has fueled deadly bushfires, the country's weather bureau said on Thursday.
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Hot and dry weather will persist across Australia's east coast for at least another three months, the country's weather bureau said on Thursday, in a forecast that threatens to severely crimp agricultural production.
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Typhoon Bailu, categorized at the weakest typhoon level by Taiwan's weather bureau, made landfall in Saturday afternoon in the southern county of Pingtung with maximum winds of 137 km (85 miles) per hour.
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The weather bureau said on Thursday that the west coast faces hot, dry weather over the next three months, which will dent the outlook for wheat production in the world's fourth-largest exporter.
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Talim had gained in strength since Wednesday as it approached Taiwan's northern cities, according to the Central Weather Bureau (CWB), but it has now shifted north and will not make landfall in Taiwan.
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China's weather bureau lifted a blizzard alert on Friday with fewer areas likely to face heavy snow, but it warned of a second wave of snow and sleet in parts of the country.
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The current threat has sharpened attention on the polices of Australia's conservative government to address climate change, which the country's weather bureau has said is extending the length of the fire weather season.
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The weather bureau said cyclone Maring, which was packing winds of up to 60 kilometers per hour (37 mph), made landfall in the morning over Mauban municipality in the eastern province of Quezon.
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Australia's dangerous summer weather has largely been driven by temperature variations in the Indian Ocean, which the country's weather bureau said on Thursday were likely to keep conditions hot and dry until March.
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Typhoon Mitag, categorized by Taiwan's weather bureau as the second-strongest typhoon level, was expected to approach the coast of the northeastern county of Yilan with maximum winds of 162 kmh (100 mph).
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The adverse weather shows little sign of abating, with Australia's weather bureau forecasting a 70 percent chance of an El Nino developing later this year, bringing hot, dry weather across the country's east coast.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's weather bureau said on Thursday there was a high possibility that a La Nina weather pattern would emerge in summer after the current El Nino phenomenon ends, reiterating an earlier forecast.
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Talim was expected to gain in strength as it swept towards the capital and other cities, including New Taipei and Yilan, lashing them with strong wind and heavy rain, the Central Weather Bureau said.
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During the chaos, the Miami Weather Bureau offices took a direct hit from the hurricane, resulting in the destruction of most of their equipment and leaving meteorologists with only estimates of the storm's effects.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Hot, dry weather will persist across Australia's east coast for at least another three months, the country's weather bureau said on Thursday, in a forecast that threatens to severely crimp agricultural production.
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But the project, which envisions housing more than 1 million people across 13,700 hectares of reclaimed land, is probably the worst choice, said Lam Chiu-ying, a former director of Hong Kong's weather bureau.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - A drought across Australia's east coast has intensified after near record-low levels of rain across much of the region over the past five months, the country's weather bureau said on Wednesday.
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Winter 2017 was not only the warmest in Australia since records began more than a century ago, but was also among the top 10 driest seasons ever, data from the country's weather bureau shows.
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The weather bureau said it was also keeping an eye on typhoon Talim which was packing winds of up to 120 kph (75 mph), spotted moving toward the country's northern tip and to Taiwan.
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The country's weather bureau said rivers in affected areas remained at very high levels on Saturday morning, after some areas were hit with more than 200 millimeters (7.8 inches) of rain in 24 hours.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Once-in-a-century flooding in part of the eastern Australian state of Queensland looks set to worsen as the nation's weather bureau on Saturday warned of more heavy rain in the area.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's weather bureau said on Tuesday that the El Nino phenomenon has peaked between November and December, and there is a strong possibility that the weather would return to normal only by summer.
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China's weather bureau on Saturday issued an orange alert, its second highest, after posting a red alert on Friday, when the storm forced flight cancellations in Taiwan and shut markets and businesses on the island.
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Land, sea and air transport slowly resumed operations, but the weather bureau said stormy weather would affect parts of the country for another 36 hours or so, until the storm moved away toward southern Vietnam.
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China's weather bureau on Saturday issued an orange alert, its second highest, after putting out a red alert on Friday, when the storm forced flight cancellations in Taiwan and shut markets and businesses on the island.
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China's weather bureau on Saturday issued an orange alert, its second highest, after putting out a red alert on Friday, when the storm forced flight cancellations in Taiwan and shut markets and businesses on the island.
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The education minister of western Maharashtra state, Vinod Tawde, in a tweet on Tuesday advised all schools and colleges in the city to remain closed on Wednesday following forecasts of heavy rains by the weather bureau.
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Meanwhile, Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau issued sea and land warnings, asking residents to be prepared for strong winds and rain in five vulnerable areas -- Keelung City, Yilan County, New Taipei City, Taipei City, and Hualien County.
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Winemakers say the next few weeks could make or break the A$6.2 billion ($4.4 billion) industry's season, with soils across three quarters of the continent's east classified by the weather bureau as dry or very dry.
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In recent years media have attributed the weather bureau attack and the theft of spy-office blueprints to China-backed hackers, as a growing wave of cyber attacks targets businesses and military in the close U.S. ally.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Moderate to heavy rains caused flooding and landslides in central Philippines as tropical storm Kai-tak made landfall on Saturday afternoon, and may hit more areas while moving westward, the weather bureau said on Saturday.
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The weather bureau warned of "dangerous and high velocity flows" along the Ross River after the flood gates were opened fully at the Ross River dam on Sunday, releasing about 1,900 cubic meters of water a second.
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On Thursday, Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau issued sea and land warnings, asking residents to be prepared for strong winds and rain in five vulnerable areas -- Keelung City, Yilan County, New Taipei City, Taipei City, and Hualien County.
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By early afternoon, dozens of fires were burning across the southeastern state of Victoria and temperatures of 22005 Celsius (105.6 F) in Melbourne, its capital, matched the hottest day on record in 1894, Australia's weather bureau said.
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SHANGHAI/TAIPEI (Reuters) - China's weather bureau issued a red alert early on Friday as super typhoon Lekima approached Zhejiang province on the eastern coast, after forcing flight cancellations in Taiwan and shutting markets and businesses on the island.
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SYDNEY, June 30 (Reuters) - Australia is expected to see wetter-than-average conditions across much of the country over the next three months, the country's weather bureau said on Thursday, providing a boost for the country's agricultural production.
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Galveston's weather bureau director at the time, Isaac Cline, had written an 1891 article for the island's daily newspaper to make an argument no seawall was needed because a hurricane of significant strength would never strike the island.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - An earthquake measuring 5.5 magnitude struck off the northeast coast of Taiwan on Monday, the island's Central Weather Bureau said, shaking buildings in the capital Taipei, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
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Typhoon Kammuri, the 20th typhoon to hit the country this year, was expected to make landfall on the Philippines' main Luzon island, packing 165 kph wind speeds and gusts of up to 230 kph, the weather bureau said.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In 1972, China's Central Weather Bureau compiled and published a book filled with color photographs of clouds, each paired with an illustration of the photograph and some text explaining the clouds' features.
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Sarika's wind speeds subsided to about 130 kph (81 mph) after the landfall, said the weather bureau, adding that it was watching another storm, Haima, that could enter the Philippines on Monday, after forming south of Guam on Saturday.
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Last week, Australia's weather bureau said the 2015-16 El Nino weather event, one of the three strongest in the past 50 years, has peaked in the recent weeks and is likely return to ENSO Neutral by Q2 2016.
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Typhoon Haima has been labeled a category 5 storm on a scale of 1 to 5 by Tropical Storm Risk and could cause flooding, landslides and storm surges of up to five meters (16.5 ft), the weather bureau said.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's weather bureau said on Tuesday that it estimated that a La Nina weather pattern has emerged and that there was a 60 percent possibility that the phenomenon would last through the winter months December to February.
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SYDNEY, July 11 (Reuters) - Hot, dry weather will persist across Australia's east coast until at least October, the country's weather bureau said on Thursday, signalling no relief for drought-hit farmers in one of the world's largest agricultural producers.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's weather bureau projected on Wednesday that there are growing signs of a La Niña pattern emerging as sea water temperatures being monitored near the equator in the Pacific Ocean are now cooler than their benchmark levels.
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Authorities have declared a state of emergency in the region as Tropical Cyclone Trevor nears, with the nation's weather bureau on Friday saying the storm was intensifying and warning of a "severe impact" ahead of landfall on Saturday morning.
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Meanwhile, climate change in the region is so severe that nearby Senegal's national weather bureau says that from 1950 to 2015, the average temperature there rose two degrees Celsius and the average annual rainfall declined by about two inches.
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More than 100 fires were burning in the states of Queensland and New South Wales on Saturday, with the nation's weather bureau forecasting little reprieve for firefighters due to dry conditions caused by drought and little rainfall over winter.
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Another official at the weather bureau said there was a 50 percent chance of a La Nina weather pattern affecting Indonesia in the fourth quarter of this year, potentially causing a wetter than usual "dry" season and heavier rainy season.
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SYDNEY, June 13 (Reuters) - Dry weather will persist across Australia until at least the end of September, the country's weather bureau said on Thursday, in a forecast that threatens to further lower wheat production in the world's No. 4 exporter.
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Senegal's national weather bureau says that from 1950 to 2015, the average temperature in the country rose two degrees Celsius, much faster than anticipated, and since 1950, the average annual rainfall has declined by about 50 millimeters (about two inches).
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The fires are so extreme that the weather bureau has warned of lightning strikes from what are called pyro-cumulonimbus clouds — fire-spawned thunderheads built of smoke, towering to 45,000 feet and generating ground-level convection that makes firefighting harder.
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Typhoon Nesat, a medium strength typhoon with wind speeds of around 360 km per hour (70 mph), made landfall on Saturday and is expected to lash the island over two days, affecting the south most heavily, according to the Central Weather Bureau.
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SYDNEY, Jan 1 (Reuters) - A cyclone is expected to hit the northern Australian port of Weipa on Tuesday, disrupting shipping and lashing the coast with wind gusts of up to 100 km per hour (62 miles per hour), the weather bureau said.
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MANILA (Reuters) - A typhoon that barreled into northern Philippine provinces on Sunday has further weakened as it moved toward the South China Sea, but the local weather bureau said it was closely monitoring another storm that could enter the eastern boundary by Monday.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's weather bureau said on Thursday the El Nino weather pattern, which is often linked to heavy rainfall and droughts, was expected to continue weakening and that there was a high possibility the weather would return to normal by summer.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Extreme weather in China is becoming increasingly frequent, with temperatures in some regions hitting record highs this year and with rainfall set to exceed average levels by 70% in the next 10 days, officials at the nation's weather bureau warned.
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Temperatures have soared over 40 degrees Celsius (104 F) from Western Australia down through the sparsely populated central desert into the populous eastern seaboard states for seven days, with the weather bureau predicting the heat to continue after a brief New Year's Eve respite.
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Bailu was carrying maximum winds of 126 km per hour (78 mph) as it approaches Taiwan, the weather bureau said, adding that the storm could gain in strength and become the first typhoon to make landfall on the island in more than two years.
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The super typhoon originally developed on Sunday in the open waters of the Pacific, south of Guam, and has been steadily moving to the northwest -- it's currently forecast to reach Taiwan by Thursday night or Friday morning local time, according to Taiwain's Central Weather Bureau.
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"To those suffering in the aftermath of the recent TD04, I want to assure all of you that my Government is working overtime to reach you," he said on Twitter, referring to the storm by the number it was assigned by Fiji's weather bureau.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's weather bureau said on Friday it sees a 40 percent chance that the El Nino weather pattern would emerge between spring and summer, but there is a higher chance that the current normal pattern without either an El Nino or La Nina will continue.
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"Whoever knowingly issues or publishes any counterfeit weather forecast or warning of weather conditions falsely representing such forecast or warning to have been issued or published by the Weather Bureau, United States Signal Service, or other branch of the Government service, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ninety days, or both," the statute reads.
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"Whoever knowingly issues or publishes any counterfeit weather forecast or warning of weather conditions falsely representing such forecast or warning to have been issued or published by the Weather Bureau, United States Signal Service, or other branch of the Government service, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ninety days, or both," reads the code.
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"Whoever knowingly issues or publishes any counterfeit weather forecast or warning of weather conditions falsely representing such forecast or warning to have been issued or published by the Weather Bureau, United States Signal Service, or other branch of the Government service, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ninety days, or both," the law states.
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"Whoever knowingly issues or publishes any counterfeit weather forecast or warning of weather conditions falsely representing such forecast or warning to have been issued or published by the Weather Bureau, United States Signal Service, or other branch of the Government service, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ninety days, or both," the relevant part of the US Code reads.
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Sitting with top aides in the Oval Office, the president of the United States examines a Weather Bureau map showing the path of a hurricane heading for the Florida coast, picks up a black Sharpie, marks up the official map in order to show the hurricane heading across Florida, then picks up his iPhone, opens his Twitter account, and falsely warns the people of Alabama to get ready for a direct hit.
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