Emergency hiring plans are underway in an effort to keep two Central Valley weather stations fully staffed in the wake of federal budget cuts.
The National Weather Service’s Sacramento and Hanford offices have been operating for months with reduced staff. California legislators have issued dire warnings about the service reductions, calling the cuts “the beginning of a public safety crisis.”
Hundreds of weather service employees have left the agency under cost-cutting orders from the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency…