On this First Alert 6 Weather Day, the National Weather Service office in Valley is facing a deluge of problems. Staffing shortages and fewer weather balloon launches remain an issue. In April, Congressman Mike Flood promised things would get better,

The National Weather Service is offering transfers to meteorologists to fill staffing vacancies after Trump administration budget and staff cuts.

Internal documents reviewed by POLITICO revealed a range of open positions, from a lead meteorologist role in Fairbanks, Alaska, to meteorologist-in-charge at the NWS office in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Such improvements have cumulatively saved thousands of lives and likely hundreds of billions of dollars across the U.S. And they happened only through concerted federal government investment in studying weather events,

That leaves the nation’s official weather forecasting entity at a significant deficit – down more than 10% of its staffing – just as we head ... Perhaps most importantly, NWS issues all of the tornado warnings, hurricane warnings, flood warnings ...

The Pendleton office issues hazardous weather warnings for one of the largest areas in the U.S., including the Tri-Cities.

NOAA announced that it is decommissioning several databases, including its widely reported annual compilation of billion-dollar weather and climate disasters.

Two California National Weather Service offices will no longer operate 24 hours per day, the Chronicle confirmed Thursday, curtailing the output of an agency that issues extreme weather warnings for more than 7 million Californians in the Central Valley.