Meteorology

The decision by the Trump administration to defer maintenance of the Joint Polar Satellite System threatens to degrade the accuracy of weather forecasts

Colorado State University issued their hurricane forecast for the 2025 Atlantic season on April 3, 2025. Get all the details and more information here. The post Above-average hurricane forecast for the Atlantic in 2025 first appeared on EarthSky.

Job cuts by Trump administration leave nearly half of NWS' forecast hubs critically understaffed

In an internal FEMA memorandum obtained by Grist, the Trump administration announced it plans to dismantle the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program.

Detailed vacancy data for all 122 weather field offices show eight offices are missing more than 35% of their staff—including in the South where tornadoes and torrential rain hit this week.

A 20-year Hubble study of Uranus provide valuable data for understanding the atmospheric dynamics of this distant ice giant, which can serve as a proxy for studying exoplanets of similar size and composition.

Rainfall near Memphis, Tennessee, is expected to exceed 12in over the next three days

The new Spring 2025 issue of NASA History News and Notes reflects on some of the transitional periods in NASA's past, as well as the legacies of past projects.

Hubble images reveal changes on Uranus for the four years that Hubble's STIS instrument observed Uranus across a 20-year period.

The move is a sign that the nation's top public health agency may be falling in line with RFK Jr's vaccine views

Andrew Hazelton helped make hurricane models more accurate. He was one of hundreds of NOAA workers to lose their jobs—and weather forecasts are about to get worse.

It's not just planes that are crashing under the MAGA regime. Now we're talking blimps, as winds uprooted a giant U.S. Customs and Border Protection surveillance balloon in Texas on…

The agency that leads most of the government's work on ocean and coastal health as well as climate research is one among those being targeted by Trump.

NOAA, the agency best known for collecting and analyzing data that make weather forecasts and warnings possible, leads most of the government's work on ocean and and coastal health, as well as climate change research.

How a simple idea turned into an international weather service on the Fediverse.

NOAA layoffs: Why is the government laying off top scientists and meteorologists? Here's what you need to know.

800 out on Thursday in 'a move toward putting Americans in danger every day'

There are two main factors that can make us shiver or sweat.

Meteorologists warn that the coldest burst of Arctic air this season is coming to put an icy and prolonged exclamation point on America's winter of repeated polar vortex invasions starting this weekend

President Trump and DOGE have their sights on NOAA and the National Weather Service. Gutting them could imperil millions and cost billions