The Trump administration’s personnel reduction in the National Weather Service (NWS) has pushed critical forecasting offices to their limit just as hurricane season ramps up in the Atlantic, The Washington Post reported on Saturday.
The outlet spoke to several current and former employees who are concerned that the massive reductions in staff over the past year, roughly 600 individuals, have forced some forecasters to cover shifts on a “buddy system,” where understaffed offices have had to seek help from those in other regions.
Tom Fahy, legislative director for the National Weather Service Employees Organization, the union that represents the agency’s workers, told the outlet, “We have a strained and severely stretched situation,” noting that while the NWS has had a uniquely committed staff, “there’s a breaking point.”
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