Forecasting is studiously apolitical by design, as weather is one of life’s great equalizers. The rain falls on the just and the unjust alike.
Recent cuts to national weather forecasting infrastructure have inspired backlash against the Trump administration.
The terminations come days before a potential severe weather outbreak in the southeastern U.S. — and just months ahead of the next Atlantic hurricane season.
Hundreds of NOAA and National Weather Service employees were laid off Thursday in the latest round of federal workforce cuts under President Donald Trump’s administration.
Scientists worry there will be immediate harm from the Trump administration's latest federal workforce cuts, which hit NOAA and the National Weather Service.
Hundreds of weather forecasters and other federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration employees on probationary status were fired
FOX 9's Cody Matz talks about how job cuts at the National Weather Service and NOAA could impact weather forecasting. Hundreds of weather forecasters were fired in a wave of DOGE cuts at the end of February.
It defies anything that I have in my political experience to understand how stupid this is,” former Rep. David Skaggs told The Denver Post.