Hundreds of jobs that were eliminated by cuts from the Department of Government Efficiency are to be refilled at the National Weather Service, which has been told it can hire as many as 450 radar technicians, meteorologists and hydrologists. A CNN report said that the rehiring comes as the agency looks back on the deadly floods that ravaged Texas last month while preparing for the arrival of hurricane season in a few weeks. The CNN report noted that the cuts have led to many agency staffers taking on bigger workloads and longer hours and cited the reduction in data available to the weather service - the result of fewer launches of weather balloons.

Meteorologist, Louis Uccellini, former director of the National Weather Service, told the Associated Press that the hirings were [quote] "great news for the NWS and the American public" [endquote] adding that he would like to see them get under way. He was NWS director from 2013 until he stepped down in 2022.