We still don't know why tornados happen, but we're getting closer to finding answers - just as the Trump administration threatens to cut $1 billion in funding ...

Hurricane forecasts may become worse due to the upcoming cutoff of key data from U.S. Department of ... so any loss — even gradual as satellites or instruments fail — is ... NOAA job cuts.

Experts said the NWS did a good job warning about the flooding, but questions remain about whether the cuts played a role.

Boulder community members shared their thoughts on why the continued government funding of federal research labs is ...

Federally-funded research improves accuracy. A primary reason for the increasingly accurate NOAA hurricane season forecasts over the past 10 years relates to advances in research and technology.

“It will stop all progress” in U.S. forecasting, said James Franklin, who retired in 2017 as chief of the National Hurricane Center’s forecast specialists. Abolishing that research will be “a ...

"The reason the Texans had no idea that a giant flash-flood that killed 20 plus people was going to be coming to them was because the Trump regime has defunded not only the National Weather Service ...

NOAA's forecasting model, the Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System or HAFS, is expected to undergo an upgrade that officials believe could increase the accuracy of storm tracking by about 5%.

Massive job cuts at NOAA have raised concerns among scientists and former agency heads, who warn the layoffs could compromise weather forecasts, disaster response, and key economic sectors.