The 2026 budget passback plan calls for eliminating NOAA Research, the scientific backbone that keeps weather forecasts, alerts, and warnings accurate and effective. This would have disastrous consequences.

Read the AMS statement, in partnership w/ @nwas.org: bit.ly/4cz2RtC

NWS Storm Prediction Center Key Messages for today's severe weather/tornado outbreak across the South. For more details and future outlook updates, short term discussions (mesoscale discussion), and watch issuances visit www.spc.noaa.gov.

Busy satellite view over the central Plains this afternoon - unfortunately as forecast, the very strong & dry wind kicked up a massive dust storm and contributed to rapid fire & smoke spread in Oklahoma, with severe thunderstorms starting to form over Missouri in the warm sector.

Fire weather is severe weather. My goodness... #txwx #okwx

An incredibly rare Day 2 High Risk (level 5 out of 5 risk) for portions of Mississippi and Alabama

This has only occurred three times since these records have been kept (with two of those encompassing similar portions of Mississippi and Alabama region):

2025-03-15
2012-04-14
2006-04-07

The Storm Prediction Center issues Day 2 Convective Outlook (Max Risk: High) at Mar 14, 17:30z Link

"Another building on the list ... now has an end date of Sept. 30, 2025. That facility in Norman, Okla. is the Radar Operations Center, a centralized hub for technicians and researchers to work on improving and repairing the nation's aging fleet of Doppler weather radars."

I don’t think a lot of people outside science understand the symbiotic relationship we have between public, private, and educational sectors. We all lean on each other for help, support, and R&D. In most cases, we aren’t competing so much as all rowing different boats in the same direction.

Probationary employees across @NOAA and the @NWS are being terminated today, including those in mission-essential roles.

My own wife is among them, essential to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center's 24/7 critical mission of seismic monitoring and tsunami prediction to protect the public.

The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within #NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (#NWS), is profoundly alarming.
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Second this! But please don't forget about the folks in the other NOAA Line Offices. The folks in OAR, NESDIS, etc are developing our future weather radar technologies, operational forecast models, warning paradigms... the list goes on. The entire enterprise is valuable and deserves to be saved. 🥺

The hammer fell on NOAA/NWS this afternoon. 😭💔 There were no exceptions. All probationary employees.

All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

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.

New: Layoffs underway of probationary employees at @noaa.gov Unclear so far how many were exempted for public safety reasons at the Nat'l Weather Service, NOAA Satellites and other units. www.axios.com/2025/02/27/l...

While I wait for the email that tells me whether I’ve been fired or spared, here’s a thread of things I’ve had the privilege of working on, experiencing, and accomplishing in my 10 months as a federal employee at the Storm Prediction Center.

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