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From: S. maltophilia	12/16/2025 12:00:48 AM
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....Last week, multiple entities including CNN reported on NOAA/NWS hiring efforts as the agency works to onboard 450 new employees they were authorized by the Trump Administration to hire back in July. This hiring authorization came in the wake of losing 550 employees earlier this year when the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and NOAA/NWS’ parent the Department of Commerce implemented the “Fork in the Road” Deferred Resignation Program (DRP) and a Voluntary Early Retirement Authorization (VERA). The CNN article opens: The National Weather Service is working to hire back hundreds of positions laid off or otherwise cut by the Trump administration, but it’s progressing at a snail’s pace, with about 80 final job offers accepted for meteorologists, hydrologists and other specialized staff. The agency received permission in late July to add a total of 450 people after about 550 were cut by DOGE earlier this year. The decision to authorize new hires came after lawmakers and citizens expressed concerns about how the NWS cuts would impact public safety. The slow hiring means the Weather Service is going into yet another critical storm season with more than a dozen forecast offices forced to get by with serious staff vacancies, potentially undermining the accuracy of forecasts and warnings during powerful winter storms. As someone who was a federal supervisor for 20 years and is intimately familiar with NOAA’s hiring processes, I will honestly state that managing to get 80 NWS jobs completely through the process to the stage of accepted final job offers in about five months is actually pretty impressive to me. Federal hiring has always been a long,.... balancedweather.substack.com

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