NWS’s staffing was a large concern for committee members from both parties in the House and Senate.

With hurricane season underway and an above-normal activity forecast, some National Weather Service offices like Houston — where as many as 44 percent of positions are vacant ...

NWS, he said, employs 2,100 meteorologists ... and effectively and planned out.” The decreased staffing levels — which he, too, estimated was roughly 575 positions — pose a challenge to those efforts, ...

U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran from Kansas has introduced legislation to exempt National Weather Service meteorologists from federal ...

U.S. Rep. Mike Flood has helped to introduce the bipartisan Weather Workforce Improvement Act, which is designed to reinforce ...

The proposed measure also would grant the weather service temporary hiring authority for positions related to public safety.

A congressional tour of the National Weather Service Quad Cities forecasting office revealed a skeleton crew trying to keep ...

Representative Mike Flood announced a bill on Friday to make employees of the National Weather Service classified as public safety mission function workers.

South Dakota's three National Weather Service forecast offices are short of staff, sending up fewer weather balloons ...

Some states in the South are bracing for further rounds of severe storms after a weekend system killed at least one person in Georgia. According to the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA), the ...

The proposed measure also would grant the weather service temporary hiring authority for positions related to public safety.