Large federal workforce firings began at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday, including National Weather Service employees in California. At least one California weather service office was impacted by the layoffs,

Hundreds of weather forecasters and other federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration employees on probationary status were fired

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency layoffs at the Oklahoma National Weather Center raise safety concerns during tornado season.

The latest round of cuts carried out by the Department of Government Efficiency, led by tech billionaire and Trump adviser Elon Musk, are expected to impact at least 10% of NOAA’s workforce with more cuts potentially on the horizon.

The cuts could have life-or-death consequences, according to critics of the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency.

The firings included Great Lakes experts and meteorologists who do crucial local forecasts in National Weather Service offices across the country.

Weather experts predict that Elon Musk's latest round of government firings at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), including at the National Weather Service, will almost certainly make it more difficult to predict dangerous weather emergencies as quickly as needed.

From hurricane season to ice storms, the way the state gets its alerts might change after scientists at NOAA and the National Weather Service were fired.

The people who once ran the federal weather and oceans agency say it touches people’s daily lives in unnoticed ways and that massive firings there could cause needless deaths and a big hit to America’s economy.

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear responded after hundreds of weather forecasters with the National Weather Service were fired this week. Federal workers who were not

Some 880 employees of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were laid off on Thursday, a congressional source told CBS News.