Dr. Jeff Masters
Extreme weather and climate change expert writing for Yale Climate Connections. Co-founder, Weather Underground; former hurricane hunter.
- Heading into hurricane season, the Houston NWS office is 44% understaffed (11 vacancies for a staff of 25), with no permanent management staff: meteorologist-in-charge, warning coordination meteorologist, science and operations officer, and electronics system analyst. www.weather.gov/hgx/office_s...
- Lawmakers want answers after reporting reveals crippling vacancies at hurricane-prone National Weather Service office. This is part of broader, national-scale cuts at NWS and NOAA. www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/w...
- NSF-supported Unidata announced that almost their entire staff will be furloughed as of today. This is a huge threat to weather education and research at universities--Unidata provides crucial realtime data feeds of weather data, including satellite, radar, and observations.
- This is a seismic gut punch to the weather enterprise. It is impossible to overstate how important @unidata.bsky.social is in implementing many datasets/libraries (LDM, netCDF, THREDDS, metPy) we currently use in meteorological research & operations. www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/e...
