Atmospheric scientist Matthew Cappucci joins Sam Stein to talk the hundreds of firings at NOAA, and how the cuts will affect weather forecasting, air travel, and natural disasters.

Hundreds of staff have been laid off at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That includes employees of the National Weather Service, the agency responsible for forecasts and severe ...

Layoffs at NOAA will only make weather reports less reliable. At 4 p.m. ET yesterday, Andrew Hazelton got a form email ...

Cooler air returns on this last day of February with Friday highs, (still above our average of 52) in the mid to upper 50s.

NOAA's staff oversees monitoring the world's atmosphere and the nation's weather and climate, including its most violent ...

Those let go include meteorologists who do crucial local forecasts in National Weather Service offices across the country.