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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 ...
In May, the Trump administration proposed a 25% cut to the NOAA's current annual budget of $6.1 billion. This will be ...
Republican votes to cut funding for weather forecasting have drawn criticism in the wake of deadly flooding in Texas.
Keeping state-of-the-art weather forecasting and preparedness outreach is a national responsibility, not, as Reagan’s 1981 statement would have it, a government annoyance.
NWS forecast offices across the country currently have no meteorologist in charge, including the League City office, which ...
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 ...
Sens. Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla said staffing shortages at the NWS are putting critical forecasting in jeopardy.
Before modern forecasting, hurricanes were mass casualty events. The 1900 Galveston Hurricane killed over 8,000 people, wiping out an entire city with a 15-foot storm surge. Less than a century ago, ...
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 ...
Signage outside the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, March 3, 2025. (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 forecast the weather, according to experts.