"Thursday’s mass firings come days before a potential severe weather outbreak early next week in the southeastern United States — and just months ahead of the next Atlantic hurricane season."

Reporting by Scott Dance...

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Kotzebue, AK, upper air weather balloons (soundings): Jan 1948 to Jan 2025. @alaskawx.bsky.social

Thousands of experts across the sciences are suddenly looking for work. They are civil servants who have dedicated their careers to innovation, health & finding solutions to grand challenges.

It would be amazing if groups focused on the future would bring them in to build a strong S&T workforce.

I am now hearing from multiple folks in the past two hours (including some who have personally been fired) that mass firings have now commenced within NOAA--including, yes, at the National Weather Service.

Last Tuesday, I was set to give a talk on 'climate change in the Northeast' at a retirement home but had to cancel due to hourly job threats.

After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected.

I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.

I just got fired from NWS . This email is all I know. Read if you want.