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

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The people who once ran the federal weather and oceans agency say it touches people’s daily lives in unnoticed ways and that massive firings there could cause needless deaths and a big hit to America’s economy.

Bill Nye the "Science Guy" — formerly the host of a popular educational show for children — caught the ire of MAGA loyalists when he suggested that Elon Musk, head of the Department of Government Efficiency,