National Weather Service is now hiring back hundreds of positions that got cut in the DOGE chaos | CNN

The National Weather Service has received permission to hire 450 meteorologists, hydrologists and radar technicians just months after being hit hard by Department of Government Efficiency-related cuts and early retirement incentives...

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/05/weather/nws-rehiring-doge-layoffs-climate

As Trump slashed weather agency, his appointees have ties to companies that stand to benefit from privatizing forecasts | PBS News

As commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick oversees the U.S. government's vast efforts to monitor and predict the weather. 

The billionaire also ran a financial firm, which he recently left in the control of his adult sons, that stands to benefit if President Donald Trump's administration follows through on a decade-long Republican effort to privatize government weather forecasting…

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/as-trump-slashed-weather-agency-his-appointees-have-ties-to-companies-that-stand-to-benefit-from-privatizing-forecasts

Looking at the #Trump cuts to #NWS and #NOAA after the #texas #floods

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JnJga74SwEc

 

Your Weather Forecasts Are About to Get a Lot Less Accurate – Mother Jones

“We’re becoming more blind” amid Donald Trump’s gutting of federal agencies.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/trump-administration-cuts-noaa-national-weather-service-forecasts-forecasting-less-accurate/

 

 

‘Clear and present danger’: Project 2025’s plan to gut FEMA when it’s most needed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRR9mni4iT4

The Storm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjNTurVapSE