Data obtained by The Associated Press shows that close to half of the local National Weather Service forecast offices have 20% vacancy rates as severe weather chugs across the nation’s heartland ...

Detailed vacancy data for all 122 weather field offices show eight offices are missing more than 35% of their staff — including those in Arkansas and Kentucky where tornadoes and torrential rain ...

WASHINGTON — After Trump administration job cuts, nearly half of National Weather Service forecast offices have 20% vacancy rates — twice that of just a decade ago — as severe weather chugs ...

The weather service this week has logged at least 75 tornado and 1,277 severe weather ... and we're heading into the season of the biggest extremes with wildfires, with hurricanes, with extreme ...