A meteorologist prepares to release a weather ballon at the National Weather Service headquarters in Sterling, Va., in 2012. (Benjamin C. Tankersley / The Washington Post via Getty Images file) Five ...

FILE: The National Weather Service headquarters in Silver Spring, Md., May 8, 2025. The National Weather Service plans to hire hundreds of new employees, months after it lost more than 500 people to ...

A person walks with an umbrella on the pedestrian and bicycle bridge that connects Sacramento City College and Crocker Village as rain falls in Sacramento on March 28, 2023. Officials at the ...

The National Weather Service is reducing the number of weather balloons it launches across the country, an early tangible decrease in services offered in the wake of cuts by the Trump administration.

The National Weather Service office in Sacramento announced Tuesday it would reduce monitoring and postings on its widely followed social media accounts, cutting back on real-time weather updates used ...