Category: Donald trump

There will be disruptions and changes in the way that Americans get weather.. the NOAA and Weather.Gov websites will undoubtedly be affected… just as spring severe weather season is about to start. Maybe as early as next week in parts of the deep south..

The Trump administration has begun terminations at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where around 800 employees have been tapped for termination..

More layoffs are possible Friday, one of the sources told CNN, potentially costing the weather, climate and environmental agency more than a thousand employees by the end of the week.

Most divisions of the agency, which employs scientists and specialists in weather, oceans, biodiversity, climate and other research and planetary monitoring fields, were affected.

The Washington POST is reporting that the terminations will affect satellite reading and other forecasting..

A worker speaking to the UK GUARDIAN said it was ‘cruel and thoughtless.’

Employees have also gone to Elon Musk’s X to speak out about the terminations..

I never thought I’d be in this position, but I was unexpectedly terminated from my job as an NWS meteorologist. This isn’t just about me—this impacts the future of weather forecasting. #NWS #NOAA pic.twitter.com/DWKmz4IiWp

— Matthew Eovino (@MatthewEovinoWX) February 27, 2025

After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected.

My job was to strengthen NOAA's use of machine learning and AI for subseasonal-to-decadal weather and climate prediction

— Zack Labe (@ZLabe) February 27, 2025

DEVELOPING.. as is spring weather and hurricane season..