Weather Service Job Cuts Impact
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Nearly half of National Weather Service offices are critically understaffed, experts warn
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Nearly half of National Weather Service forecast offices have 20 percent vacancy rates.
Eight offices are missing more than 35 percent of their staff.
Experts say vacancy rates of 20 percent or higher amount to critical understaffing.
The weather service this week has logged at least 75 tornado and 1,277 severe weather preliminary reports.
Twenty-three offices are without the meteorologist-in-charge who oversees the office.
Sixteen have vacancies in the crucial warning coordination meteorologist job.
The Houston office, with a 30 percent vacancy rate, is missing both those top positions.
“People are bending over backwards” to cope with the lack of staffing, the chief meteorologist said.
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