Large federal workforce firings began at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday, including National Weather Service employees in California. At least one California weather service office was impacted by the layoffs,
Recent cuts to national weather forecasting infrastructure have inspired backlash against the Trump administration.
Trump and Musk] are laughing at us on social media, while I come in every day to do my duties,” a worker at the NWS told HuffPost.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the National Weather Service offices in Monterey, Oxnard and San Diego were hit by DOGE layoffs. According to the Chronicle, the Monterrey office had recently been assisting the office in Hanford, which was short-staffed already and down 50 percent of its typical staffing prior to the DOGE layoffs.
Hundreds of employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were reportedly laid off this week as part of DOGE's federal workforce cuts.
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The ax has come down on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and that could have unexpectedly deadly consequences for your pets—not to mention your own health.
The people who once ran the federal weather and oceans agency say it touches people’s daily lives in unnoticed ways and that massive firings there could cause needless deaths and a big hit to America’s economy.
Hundreds of weather forecasters and other federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration employees on probationary status were fired
From hurricane season to ice storms, the way the state gets its alerts might change after scientists at NOAA and the National Weather Service were fired.
Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon ... weather experts. Remaining federal workers reported that the layoffs included meteorologists vital to local forecasting at National Weather ...