Free weather reports in the United States are a miracle of the modern administrative state. For most of our lives we’ve been able to pull up weather.gov or a website that feeds off its information ...

A far-right initiative driven by former Trump administration officials has its eyes set on privatizing the National Weather Service if former President Donald Trump is reelected in November. The text ...

In the United States, as in most other countries, weather forecasts are a freely accessible government amenity. The National Weather Service issues alerts and predictions, warning of hurricanes and ...

This past week, I’ve been going to the National Hurricane Center’s website about twice a day to look at the orange blob that was covering most of Florida on the seven-day tropical weather map. A blob ...

News that a far-right initiative promoted by former Trump administration officials would make drastic cuts to the country’s weather tracking and forecasting agencies has drawn criticism from a ...

As Florida braced for Hurricane Helene, some weather and politics observers were mad about Project 2025. “Reminder that Project 2025 would dismantle the National Weather Service and NOAA,” wrote the ...

Among the stakes in the upcoming U.S. elections: Weather forecasts, who delivers them and what they say about links between extreme conditions and climate change. A conservative proposal drafted by ...

In the early 1990s, a University of Michigan graduate student named Jeff Masters started working on an internet weather project to share real-time weather information and satellite imagery, something ...