Earlier this year, Elon Musk 's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) carried out sweeping cuts at the NWS and NOAA, which provide daily weather forecasts, up-to-the-minute severe storm warnings, climate monitoring and extreme weather tracking. Nearly half of NWS forecast offices had 20 percent vacancy rates by April.

As the Atlantic enters an “above-normal” hurricane season, a Florida weatherman is delivering residents an unsettling message about Trump's weather service cuts.

A South Florida meteorologist warned that federal spending cuts will affect his ability to accurately predict hurricanes and other weather patterns.

The Florida Board of Education has tapped an aide of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to be the state’s next education commissioner.

Gov. Ron DeSantis has recommended one of his top aides to be the new Florida education commissioner. He was OK'd June 4. Here's what to know.

Florida officials on Tuesday rejected naming former University of Michigan president Santa Ono as the new head of the University of Florida.

Santa Ono’s candidacy put Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in a difficult political position, stuck between top political supporters and the national conservative movement.

Santa Ono resigned his job at the University of Michigan last month when he was named the sole finalist for the top job at the University of Florida.

The dust mass, which forms in the Sahara Desert in northern Africa and blows thousands of miles across the Atlantic Ocean, is forecast to arrive in Florida this week.

A dust plume that has been traveling across the Atlantic may later spread as far as Texas and Georgia as a weather system breaks it apart.