National weather services have the information, but no way to get it to farmers and other people in rural communities.

国家气象局有信息，但没办法传达给农民和其他生活在农村地区的人们。

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The National Weather Services is investigating whether a small tornado touched down in Edmond, just north of Oklahoma City.

国家气象局正在观测，在处俄克拉荷马州市北部——埃德蒙，是否还存小型飓风来袭的可能。

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The National Weather Services posted a winter storm warning for the Sierra Nevada and issued flood advisories in the Bay area to Los Angeles.

家气象局发布了内华达山脉冬季风暴警报及湾区至洛杉矶的洪水提醒预告。

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"Right now we've been getting a few thunderstorms, but they're very severe supercell thunderstorms, " said Michael Scotten, a meteorologist with the National Weather Services.

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The state-funded Met Office, which bills itself as "one of the top two national weather services in the world, " is in overdrive, sending extra weather balloons into the atmosphere to try to get a read on what's to come and providing daily updates to government officials and other Olympics honchos.

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Over the past five years, global companies, such as Japan's Weathernews, or national forecasters, such as the Netherlands's Meteo Consult, have captured 20% of the market from government weather services.

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