The SSMIS instruments are part of three weather satellites that are in low-Earth orbit and are maintained by NOAA in ...

On the night the deadly floodwaters raged down the Guadalupe River in Texas, the National Weather Service forecast office in Austin/San Antonio was missing a key member of its team: the warning ...

More than a month ago, the Trump administration told the National Weather Service to hire meteorologists and other specialists for 126 vacant positions in depleted forecast offices around the country.

Forecasts and warnings largely worked during the recent flooding catastrophe in Texas. Those systems are expected to degrade as President Donald Trump’s cuts to the National Weather Service ...

After announcing it would lose access to key weather satellite data, NOAA will retain access, the agency said in a statement.

Privatizing weather forecasts could benefit Trump appointees with NWS downsized Downsizing at the National Weather Service appears to be part of an effort by Republicans to privatize such agencies.