T he Trump Administration has begun firing probationary employees at the federal agency tasked with overseeing weather prediction and climate research, raising concerns about the

NOAA's staff oversees monitoring the world's atmosphere and the nation's weather and climate, including its most violent storms.

Layoffs at NOAA will only make weather reports less reliable. At 4 p.m. ET yesterday, Andrew Hazelton got a form email telling him his work as a hurricane modeler at the federal government would be officially over at 5 p.

Democratic lawmakers and former agency officials said that more than 600 layoffs at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration would affect services ranging from emergency preparedness to agricultural forecasting,