In February, massive layoffs swept across the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in compliance with requests from the Trump administration. These cuts resulted in industry-wide concerns about immediate impacts to weather forecasts and climate studies on Earth — but experts are also worried that such abrupt reductions in the NOAA workforce can greatly affect how scientists monitor cosmic weather,

more than 500 probationary staff members were terminated across NOAA. That number includes about 100 National Weather Service employees. Since that time, probationers were reinstated and placed on paid administrative leave pending ongoing litigation.

NOAA relies on hundreds of contracts to keep the agency running. The new commerce secretary is reviewing many of them individually, causing disruptions to many normal operations within the agency.

The National Weather Service on Thursday issued a warning for the risk of dangerous rip currents along coastal Palm Beach County and into Broward and Miami-Dade counties through Saturday evening.

The National Weather Service (NWS) announced that it is eliminating or reducing weather balloon launches across multiple offices around the country. This comes in response to NOAA layoffs and a ...

The buoys are cited as examples of how the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its National Weather Service are important to Alaska.

GOES-19 will replace GOES-16, offering unprecedented insight into atmospheric changes, natural disasters, and even solar tantrums.