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 ...

Ken Graham, the NWS director, told staff in an email that the agency was granted an exemption from the Trump administration's hiring freeze in order to do that. Open positions for meteorologists ...

South Dakota’s three National Weather Service (NWS) forecast offices are short of staff and sending up fewer weather balloons ...

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.” For more CNN news and newsletters create an account ...