Staff and budget cuts at local offices of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), are degrading weather forecasts and adding chaos to New England's commercial fisheries. Proposed additional cuts could throw fisheries,

For many people, Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of summer. But along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, it also means the start of hurricane season is nearly here. This particular hurricane season comes at a moment when NOAA and its agencies are being cut and facing their own turmoil.

Just weeks before hurricane season, the National Weather Service is short 155 forecasters, according to The Washington Post.

The decommissioning of NOAA’s billion-dollar weather disaster database could force a rethink of parametric triggers used in catastrophe bonds and hamper

AM Best has commented that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) removal of the billion-dollar weather disaster database could impede insurance companies’ ability to track losses due to secondary perils.

Troy Kimmel, a longtime meteorologist and owner of Kimco Meteorological Services in Central Texas, has expressed concern over staffing shortages at National Wea