'Forecast risk': How Trump's cuts to weather experts could imperil California

The Trump administration’s cuts to NOAA are said to have resulted in roughly 600 employee departures, or about 15% of its workforce.

Americans are already being told to expect higher seafood prices, due to Trump’s tariff policies, according to a U.N. report.

WASHINGTON — When a fire erupts in California , it is a lab across the country, at the University of Maryland, that works together with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to determine where the smoke is going. Those unsung scientists help warn the people downwind of dangerous air quality levels.

About a half-hour drive away, NOAA’s Satellite Operations Facility provides the bulk of the work used to forecast atmospheric rivers that are crucial — and sometimes threatening — to communities across the state.

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