Former federal officials and outside experts have warned for months that President Donald Trump’s staffing cuts to the ...

Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Firings at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will have reverberating impacts on how meteorologists across the country ...

Republican votes to cut funding for weather forecasting have drawn criticism in the wake of deadly flooding in Texas.

In May, the Trump administration proposed a 25% cut to the NOAA's current annual budget of $6.1 billion. This will be ...

My fear is that we’re going to look back 25 years from now and say, ‘This is when the progress stopped,’” one weather expert ...

Experts said the NWS did a good job warning about the flooding, but questions remain about whether the cuts played a role.

The cuts will lead to significant consequences for weather forecasting accuracy, sea navigation, the fishing industry and air safety, Democrats and former NOAA leadership officials said in a news ...

Meanwhile, Trump said the job eliminations did not hamper any weather forecasting. The raging waters, he said Sunday, were “a thing that happened in seconds. No one expected it.

Signage outside the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, March 3, 2025. (Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images) ...