NWS Headquarters After all of the pain and angst, there is -- finally -- good news for the National Weather Service and its people.  The News President Trump’s budget for the fiscal year 2026 (which begins October 1, 2025) fully funds the National Weather Service (NWS) at 2024 levels, plus they will be receiving some additional funding regarding computer modeling. My understanding is that many of the people laid-off will be offered their jobs back and weather balloons will go back to normal.    The budget keeps the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) permanently closed with some tornado and other weather forecast research moved to the NWS. The OAR hurricane group was quite productive and played a direct role in the improvement in accuracy of hurricane path forecasts and, more recently, much better forecasts of hurricanes’ occasional rapid intensification. I hope it will be able to continue as is.    Unfortunately, while I have no opinion as to the w...