Associated Press reporting shows hundreds of people were laid off at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA.
This includes people at the National Weather Service, who the weather team at ABC57 News work with every day to bring you the most accurate forecast and the latest information on bad weather.
However, it's not just our team working with the NWS. The National Weather Service also works with state and local public safety agencies to make sure resources are in place to be ready for storms.
Before any warnings are issued, there is mass coordination by the NWS between media and emergency management agencies.
The work of the NWS allows our meteorologists to focus on delivering a weather message with more clarity to the public. Our meteorologists interpret their data in layman's terms here on ABC57.
There's still a lot of uncertainty and questions regarding these layoffs, and some revolve around how this extra workload gets handled. This begs some questions we weren't able to get answered Friday.
The local NWS office referred ABC57 to the NWS Public Affairs department, who told us they could not comment on personnel matters.
Other questions are mounting, too. Will the mission of the National Weather Service change? If the answer is no, how do you continue all the services with a large sudden cut to the workforce? If yes, what is the new mission of the NWS, and what will be prioritized?
Should state and local public safety agencies be prepared to take on new roles and responsibilities?