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Houston officials watch closely as FEMA loses 2,000 staff members ahead of a hurricane season predicted to produce 13 to 19 ...
The National Science Foundation has submitted a budget request that, if approved by Congress, would cut the budget for the ...
The National Weather Service announced it wants to hire 126 people, and it’s asking for current employees to transfer to offices in need of critical positions.
June 1 marked the official start of hurricane season in the United States — but experts and lawmakers are concerned that the ...
As the country prepares for the next hurricane season, Miami meteorologist John Morales issued a warning about how federal ...
Commerce Department employees who were fired, reinstated, and fired again learned belatedly that their health insurance has ...
During a live broadcast on NBC Miami, Morales expressed deep concern over the impact of significant reductions in funding to ...
"Never have we faced the combustible mix of a lack of meteorological data and the less accurate forecasts that follow," he ...
These cuts had resulted in the quality of weather forecasts "becoming degraded," said Morales, leaving them "flying blind" and unable to know the strength of a hurricane before it hits land.
An Emmy-winning TV meteorologist of over three decades is sounding the alarm on the Trump administration’s unprecedented cuts ...
During his message, the meteorologist showed an image of stats, which noted that the Central and South Florida National Weather Service is now 19 to 39% understaffed, there has been a 17% reduction in ...
He provided an example of how such mistakes can have a devastating impact: Hurricane Otis, which made landfall near Acapulco, Mexico, in 2023. The storm had drastically more intense wind speeds than ...