Trump cuts earthquake monitoring in ‘breeding ground for tsunamis.’ Here's how it could impact S.F. A major earthquake off the coast of Alaska could trigger a tsunami flooding San Francisco’s Embarcadero. But the main sensors designed to provide warnings for such a tsunami will soon go dark.

A NOAA contract that supports earthquake monitoring in ‘breeding ground for tsunamis’ was recently cut. It could have impacts for the entire Pacific Ocean, including California.

Alaska Public Media reports that NOAA canceled contract with state of Alaska for seismology data critical for tsunami warnings Supercells produce very large hail in south Texas; a western Pacific tropical cyclone looks to have significant impacts this week.

Today in federal science slashed news, Alaska Public Media reports that NOAA has canceled a contract with the Alaska Earthquake center to collect data critical for NWS tsunami warnings. In weather, Kalmaegi a serious threat to Philippines and Vietnam. More: https://tinyurl.com/34p7n6f9

California weather offices brace for storms as short-staffing fears grow The National Weather Service, grappling with staffing shortages, is cutting back on some forecasts in California. State officials fear flood forecasts could be impacted.

National Weather Service offices in California are scaling back operations ahead of the winter storm season amid federal cuts. Some offices have a vacancy rate >50% and a mutual aid approach is forcing some meteorologists to issue warnings for counties beyond their region of expertise.

Predictions for deadly Alaska storm may have suffered due to DOGE cuts | CNN The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of weather data triggered by the Trump administration’...

NEW: A significant gap in weather balloon coverage in western Alaska, caused by Trump admin cuts to NOAA/NWS, may have hurt the forecast accuracy for the deadly storm there over the weekend. www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/w...

#Tennessee, call your senators and reps, you might want to ring your governor too.

“…Trump’s budget request would completely eliminate funding for five [NOAA] research laboratories in Tennessee, a new interactive map of the national weather and climate agency’s locations shows.”

🚨URGENT ACTION: Funding is on the line for EPA, DOE, NOAA, and FEMA, the federal agencies that are supposed to protect our health and safety. Tell Congress to adequately fund and staff these agencies by September 30: ow.ly/IWUb50WYRPA #ForASafeClimate 🔌💡

Number of Meteorologists at F.A.A. Is Critically Low, a Federal Watchdog Warns Weather Service employees help air traffic controllers keep planes away from severe weather. Fewer than half of the county’s control centers are fully staffed, a government report says.

The number of meteorologists employed by the government to advise air traffic controllers has fallen to a critical low, according to a report by a nonpartisan watchdog agency. Fewer than half of the U.S.'s control centers are fully staffed, it said.

Trump administration pushes ahead with NOAA climate and weather cuts Despite congressional resistance, agency aims to cut research spending now

The "administration is set to spend nearly $100 million, or 14% less, on the research arm of NOAA than the level mandated by Congress for *this* [emphasis added] year, according to a budget document seen by @science.org

A "down payment," NOAA officials said. www.science.org/content/arti...

Department of Homeland Security agents stopped cars on 14th St NW in DC last night “for seat belt violations and broken taillights” (via @washingtonpost.com)

CU Boulder’s CIRES suffers layoffs due to lack of federal funding at Boulder NOAA CIRES and NOAA researchers work together to study space weather, droughts, floods and pollution. They work to develop next-generation weather modeling to make sure forecasting models are the best t…

"25 University of Colorado Boulder researchers have been laid due to a lack of funding for research projects. The laid-off employees worked for CU Boulder’s Cooperative Institute for Research In Environmental Sciences"
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EPA Releases Proposal to Rescind Obama-Era Endangerment Finding, Regulations that Paved the Way for Electric Vehicle Mandates | US EPA The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin released the agency’s proposal to rescind the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which has been used to justify over $1 trillion in regu...

Lee Zeldin, Trump’s EPA chief, plans to revoke the 2009 “endangerment finding”, the EPA’s legal basis for regulating climate pollution. This isn’t rollback. It’s sabotage. Without it, the EPA can’t limit emissions from cars, power plants, or industry. Decades of progress gone.

🚨🚨 I've independently confirmed with @NOAA that they received a late-breaking notice from @DeptofDefense that SSMIS data will continue to flow for the remainder of the lifespan of the satellites. I will be updating my reporting shortly. Here is the official NOAA statement 👇

I stand for NOAA. But I can't stand being gaslighted by current comms staff (yes—just 'doing their job' and afraid of repercussions). They describe what will remain after SSMIS data ends as “the richest most accurate satellite weather observations available” (pics @michaelrlowry.bsky.social)

Supported by @noaa.gov, the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research does some of the most critical work to keep the Great Lakes healthy & drinking water safe. We must fight to protect them from federal funding cuts that will put the Great Lakes ecosystem & drinking water for millions at risk.

Two senior NOAA officials were just placed on leave. Both led ‘Sharpiegate’ inquiry | CNN While the reasoning behind the move is not clear, the two officials affected led the investigation into whether NOAA’s scientific integrity policies were violated during the so-called Sharpiegate scan...

Two high-ranking officials at NOAA were placed on leave. While the reasoning behind the move is not clear, they led the investigation into whether NOAA’s scientific integrity policies were violated during the so-called "Sharpiegate" scandal of President Trump’s first term: cnn.it/452GqJZ

Two senior NOAA officials were just placed on leave. Both led ‘Sharpiegate’ inquiry | CNN While the reasoning behind the move is not clear, the two officials affected led the investigation into whether NOAA’s scientific integrity policies were violated during the so-called Sharpiegate scan...

SCOOP: Two senior NOAA officials were just placed on leave. Both led ‘Sharpiegate’ inquiry www.cnn.com/2025/07/25/w...

Statement from Senator Van Hollen.

Two months after catastrophic floods hit Western Maryland, communities in Allegany and Garrett Counties are still reeling — and still waiting for federal help.

It’s unacceptable that the Admin is denying them support to help these communities recover.

Our full statement below:

New NOAA document spells out further deep Trump cuts Proposal would eliminate NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, which performs and coordinates climate research.

The Trump administration's proposed NOAA budget would gut federal climate research efforts and spending at a critical moment in the fight to understand and address human-driven climate change.

New NOAA document spells out further deep Trump cuts Proposal would eliminate NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, which performs and coordinates climate research.

New NOAA document spells out further deep Trump cuts www.axios.com/2025/07/01/n...

Unconscionable. This will unravel decades of progress to severe weather and hurricane forecasts in the U.S.

Termination of OAR’s Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes (-$102,292, -204 FTE/ -216 Positions) –NOAA will continue to support high priority ocean and weather research programs in NOS and NWS. In coordination with the requested terminations for Weather Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes (see OAR-10) and Ocean Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes (see OAR-19), NOAA will close the Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) in Miami, FL; the Air Resources Laboratory (ARL) in College Park, MD, Idaho Falls, ID, and Oak Ridge, TN, as well as a nation-wide network of soil moisture sensors; the Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL) in Boulder, CO; the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) in Princeton, NJ; the Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML) in Boulder, CO, Utqiaġvik, AK, Mauna Loa, HI, Hilo, HI, Big Island, HI, American Samoa, and the South Pole; the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) in Seattle, WA; and the Physical Sciences Laboratory (PSL) in Boulder, CO.

What a tragedy this is even being proposed on paper... 💔

NOAA FY2026 Congressional Justification: www.noaa.gov/sites/defaul...

If the #NOAA budget passes Congress, it guts NOAA labs that:

– Predicted Idalia’s rapid intensification
– Tracked East Palestine’s toxic plume
– Forecast NYC’s 2023 smoke emergency
– Linked the 2021 PNW heat dome to climate change
– Run the Mauna Loa CO₂ record

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Well, that’s sad

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"We knew this day could come but here we are. The 2026 proposed @NOAA
budget shutters all world-class federally funded meteorological, oceanographic, and climate labs in America. Included is @HRD_AOML_NOAA
, a fixture for over 50 years in Miami. Hundreds of top scientists tossed."

Defense Department will stop providing crucial satellite weather data Hurricane forecasters rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. That data will no longer be available as of Monday, June 30.

Hurricane forecasters rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. That data will no longer be available as of Monday, June 30. By @rhersher.bsky.social

I sought comment from NOAA and the Department of Defense on this and received this reply today from NOAA's spokesperson. They suggest we use the surviving ATMS microwave that degrades significantly at the edges. You can see how much worse off we'd be with Erick last week if we only had ATMS.

Critical Hurricane Forecast Tool Abruptly Terminated U.S. Department of Defense announced Tuesday it would no longer process and deliver data essential to most hurricane forecasts

A huge blow was dealt to hurricane forecasters this week as a critical tool was abruptly terminated by the Department of Defense and NOAA. The immediate discontinuation of data from three weather satellites will severely impact hurricane forecasts this season and beyond. More ⬇️

Fired, rehired and fired again, some NOAA employees get letters demanding money Three former NOAA employees told NBC News they had received debt notices from the federal government for health care coverage.

Some former employees of the NOAA who were fired, rehired and fired again this spring say they have received debt notices from the federal government to pay it back for health care coverage.

Those workers also say the notices are for coverage they never had.

Massive NOAA cuts could put weather forecasts in peril, lives in danger Retired federal scientists warn Trump administration's proposed NOAA budget cuts could be costly and harm forecast accuracy.

Check out this article from USA TODAY:

Massive NOAA cuts could put weather forecasts in peril, lives in danger

www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Similar story at NOAA, employees at Climate.gov told, "Your knowledge, skills, and abilities are no longer of use to NOAA."