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Q: Is it true that if President Donald Trump hadn’t defunded the National Weather Service, the death toll in the Texas ...
President Donald Trump drew on a map of a forecast for Hurricane Dorian in 2019. He did it to indicate the storm would go ...
Experts said the NWS did a good job warning about the flooding, but questions remain about whether the cuts played a role.
President Trump's nominee to lead the agency that includes the National Weather Service said Wednesday it did a "great job" in Texas, but sees ways to improve forecasting technology and communicating ...
WASHINGTON >> Members of Congress are expressing renewed support for the nation’s weather forecasting system after deadly ...
By all accounts, forecasters provided adequate warning — the problem was communicating the danger to residents.
For years, employees say, they've had to do more with less. But the ability to fill in the gaps became strained to the ...
The Trump administration pushed back Sunday on criticism of the National Weather Service's initial forecasting and its staffing levels ahead Central Texas' catastrophic flooding. The big picture: The ...
In the five months since Trump chose Neil Jacobs as NOAA administrator, hundreds of NOAA scientists and meteorologists have left the agency through a combination of firings, buyouts and retirements.
Lawmakers from both parties have so far rejected steep cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ...
As I sit down to write this piece, the death toll in Texas has reached 135, with many more than that missing and presumed dead. A national tragedy brought about by biblical-like flooding that took ...
Neil Jacobs, Trump’s pick to head NOAA who is on the path to confirmation, was the acting NOAA administrator at the time. For ...