The devastating flooding in central Texas on July 4 led some officials to point fingers at the National Weather Service (NWS) Defending itself, the NWS said its emergency alerts gave several hours of ...

As early as Wednesday, Texas officials were marshalling the state’s emergency response resources to prepare for the coming storm. NPR has compiled a timeline of when local, state and federal officials ...

Even before the new administration began mass terminations and spending freezes, National Weather Service employees would have had their hands full in early April as they cranked out warnings for ...

There are 122 National Weather Service (NWS) offices nationwide, each of which performs critical lifesaving duties every day from issuing tornado warnings to keeping airplanes out of hazardous weather ...

Emergency alerts gave "preliminary lead times of more than three hours before flash flooding conditions occurred," the agency said Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working ...

South Florida plunges deeper into the 2025 hurricane season with its National Weather Service office in Miami down five meteorologists, a deficit that gives it the highest vacancy rate among Florida’s ...

At the start of this year's Atlantic hurricane season, a pared-down National Weather Service is scrambling to deal with the realities of severe staffing gaps at the agency in charge of forecasting and ...

National Weather Service offices across the country are suspending or reducing weather balloon flights due to low staffing. Meteorologists say the loss of data could lead to forecasting challenges and ...

Nearly 2,500 jobs are being eliminated at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the federal agency responsible for collecting weather data used by meteorologists. That could spell ...