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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The Weather Workforce Improvement Act would reclassify NWS employees as critical public safety officials and grant the NWS ...

Some states in the South are bracing for further rounds of severe storms after a weekend system killed at least one person in Georgia. According to the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA), the ...