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Budget cuts have left the National Weather Service with 30 vacant leadership positions across its forecast offices. These staffing shortages threaten accurate hurricane warnings just as storm season ...
Here’s why budget and staffing cuts at the National Weather Service are raising concerns among Kansas City area emergency ...
The National Weather Service is dealing with staff shortages and DOGE cuts as hurricane season nears. NPR's Scott Simon asks former NWS meteorologist Brian LaMarre about the impact of the cuts.
The National Weather Service director says the hurricane center is fully staffed and that he will make sure local forecasting ...
The National Weather Service ended 24/7 operations at its Cheyenne forecasting office due to a staffing shortage and cuts by ...
It also announced the discontinuation of the downtown Sacramento weather station on April 29, citing siting issues that did ...
As a storm system approached Jackson, in Southeastern Kentucky, on May 16, a few individuals agreed to work double shifts to make sure timely warnings continued during the overnight hours, said Tom ...
Troy Kimmel, a longtime meteorologist and owner of Kimco Meteorological Services in Central Texas, has expressed concern over ...
In the central region, which includes Kansas, there are currently seven vacant warning coordination meteorologists (WCM), ...
The staffing shortage could also impact summer vacation travel plans, as the NWS also handles critical airline weather forecasts. "I expect we're going to see a lot more delays and cancellations ...
SEE HERE: Top meteorologist at Houston NWS retires early amid Trump administration staffing cuts "We just had to be pretty adaptable," Wood said. He voiced some concerns, eluding to the fact that ...
Even before President Donald Trump took office, the NWS was already about 5 percent below the staffing level the service has considered adequate as it scrambled to catch up to a spate of retirements.