The cuts could have life-or-death consequences, according to critics of the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency.

Alabama’s preeminent meteorologist defended workers with the National Weather Service on Tuesday as Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency takes aim at the agency overseeing the NWS with job and budget cuts.

Was the National Weather Service in Hanford spared from last week’s massive layoffs? Yes, it seems — at least for now. The National Weather Service was targeted for mass layoffs last week by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency that led to hundreds of fired weather forecasters.

Weather experts predict that Elon Musk's latest round of government firings at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), including at the National Weather Service, will almost certainly make it more difficult to predict dangerous weather emergencies as quickly as needed.

The Trump administration's latest round of federal terminations included firing hundreds of staffers at NOAA and the National Weather Service last week.

Federal workers who were not let go said the afternoon layoffs included meteorologists who do crucial local forecasts in National Weather Service offices across the country.

Recent cuts to national weather forecasting infrastructure have inspired backlash against the Trump administration.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the National Weather Service offices in Monterey, Oxnard and San Diego were hit by DOGE layoffs. According to the Chronicle, the Monterrey office had recently been assisting the office in Hanford, which was short-staffed already and down 50 percent of its typical staffing prior to the DOGE layoffs.

Trump and Musk] are laughing at us on social media, while I come in every day to do my duties,” a worker at the NWS told HuffPost.

Former television host Bill Nye the “Science Guy” suggested that the Department of Government Efficiency is performing “corruption” and targeting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with plans to replace its weather satellites with Elon Musk‘s Starlink satellites.

The firings included Great Lakes experts and meteorologists who do crucial local forecasts in National Weather Service offices across the country.

Hundreds of weather forecasters and other federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration employees on probationary status were fired