NWS leadership has been trying unsuccessfully to get the agency designated as a public safety department and therefore exempted from the hiring freeze. The patterns revealed in the openings show ...

Hundreds of NWS weather forecasters and other federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) employees on probationary status were handed their notice at the end of February.

This NWS office issued tornado warnings ahead of ... like in (Jackson), you eventually just run out of people until hiring can begin again.” ...