Axios - Eight days after layoffs began at NOAA, the real-world effects of downsizing the world's premier weather and climate agency are coming into focus. The agency is wrestling with gaps in its ability to warn people of life-threatening extreme weather events, from tornadoes to hurricanes.
Due to a combination of cuts and a hiring freeze, the agency may not be able to maintain its typical pace of Hurricane Hunter research flights, which are so crucial to improving storm track and intensity forecasts, during the 2025 hurricane season.
- In addition, strains exist at the forecast offices of NOAA's National Weather Service, where senior meteorologists took the early retirement offer and many early career forecasters who were probationary employees were laid off.
- This will force more overtime shifts for technical experts at an agency that went into the cuts already short-staffed.
The backbone of the nation's public and private sector weather forecasting operations is also threatened. More
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