NWS’s staffing was a large concern for committee members from both parties in the House and Senate.

Fahy said that for meteorologists specifically, the Lake Charles office has a vacancy rate of nearly 39%, the highest in the ...

With hurricane season underway and an above-normal activity forecast, some National Weather Service offices like Houston — where as many as 44 percent of positions are vacant ...

Additionally, this legislation requires the Secretary of Commerce to submit a report after one year of enactment on staffing ...

Hurricane season has started, but jobs still haven’t been refilled after drastic DOGE cuts, though the administration says it ...

A hiring freeze that resulted in shortened hours at the National Weather Service office in Goodland has been lifted. The ...

As the Atlantic hurricane season gets underway, some are raising concerns about federal preparedness after steep staff ...

NWS, he said, employs 2,100 meteorologists ... and effectively and planned out.” The decreased staffing levels — which he, too, estimated was roughly 575 positions — pose a challenge to those efforts, ...

Concerns are growing over whether federal staffing shortages could soon hamper the forecasts that keep first responders and ...

Some states in the South are bracing for further rounds of severe storms after a weekend system killed at least one person in ...