National Weather Service still launching balloons once a day, facing staffing issues The API failed to deliver the resource. Staffing shortages and fewer weather balloon launches remain an issue.

"Several local (weather service) offices are temporarily operating below around-the-clock staffing," according to a statement from Kim Doster, director of communications for the National Oceanic ...

At the National Mall in Washington, D.C., a demonstrator holds a sign protesting the Trump administration's cuts to NOAA, the parent agency of the National Weather Service, on April 5, 2025.

Ahead of the storm, the National Weather Service at NOAA warned of upward of 15 inches of rainfall. “This is not your average flood risk,” according to a NWS bulletin from April 2.

A National Weather Service weather balloon launches in Bismarck, N.D., in June 2017. Weather balloons go up more than 5 miles into the atmosphere and transmit measurements back to the ground ...