The National Weather Service is hiring hundreds of entry-level employees after losing about 15% of its staff to federal cuts last year.

Following aggressive federal job cuts, the National Weather Service (NWS) has received permission to rehire for 450 roles that include radar technicians, meteorologists, and hydrologists, according to ...

The National Weather Service is authorized to hire 450 people by September 2026, including 126 positions approved under an emergency hiring exemption. Experts are concerned that the rehiring process ...

NORMAN, Okla. — The sky was blue, the breeze steady and the temperature close to 70 degrees — a near perfect spring day in central Oklahoma. But a team of meteorologists inside the National Weather ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Andy Hazelton learned he'd been fired the same way everyone else did. Like hundreds of his colleagues at the National Oceanic and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this photo from 2022, meteorologist Brian Kyle monitors the area weather at the National Weather Service offices in Dickinson.

Former federal officials and outside experts have warned for months that President Donald Trump’s deep staffing cuts to the National Weather Service could endanger lives. After torrential rains and ...

Peak hurricane season is approaching, and the National Weather Service is operating with a less experienced workforce and ...

Andy Hazelton learned he'd been fired the same way everyone else did. Like hundreds of his colleagues at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, he received a mass email from the ...