A balloon launch at the NWS Forecast Quad Cities office in Davenport, Iowa. (Danny Wilcox Frazier for NBC News)© Danny Wilcox Frazier for NBC News Ray Wolf at his home in Eldridge, Iowa on May 28.

New Hires Will Still Leave the NWS Dangerously Understaffed, Meteorologists Say Nearly 600 employees left the National Weather Service or were fired in recent months.

The National Hurricane Center is “fully staffed” and any suggestion that the Trump administration fired meteorologists at the National Weather Service is “fake news,” “preposterous and ...

NWS union says Central Texas office was prepared, but understaffed offices may not be Deadly flood in Texas sparks a debate over whether recent cuts and staffing shortages led to a greater loss of ...

Catastrophic flooding in Texas has sparked fresh scrutiny about the Trump administration's cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Weather Service (NWS ...

30 of the 122 NWS forecast offices across the country currently have no meteorologist in charge, including the League City office, which serves Greater Houston.