"Going into the severe weather and hurricane season, this cannot be good," Roker wrote on X about the layoffs In the most recent wave of federal cuts by the Trump administration, hundreds of people from an agency that tracks dangerous storm systems and monitors climate change have been fired.

About 10% of the NOAA workforce was laid off, according to some reports, in a move that could kneecap the agency's ability to forecast local and national weather events.

The layoffs, criticized as “short-sighted,” reportedly include meteorologists who did crucial local forecasts in National Weather Service offices across the country.