DOGE cut hundreds of jobs at the NWS, but experts who spoke to WIRED say the agency accurately predicted the state's weekend flood risk.

Numerous scattered showers and storms will continue in the area through Sunday, with pockets of heavy rain and an increase in the risk for flash flooding.

Some experts say staff shortages might have complicated forecasters’ ability to coordinate responses with local emergency management officials.

Experts said warnings issued in the run-up to this weekend’s flooding were as timely and accurate as possible, but questions about whether the alerts reached people most at risk remain.

"A lot of the weather forecast offices now are not operating at full complement of staff," said the former lead of NOAA.

The repercussions of fatal flooding on the Fourth of July in the sun-scorched Texas Hill Country are being felt more than a week later and 1,500 miles away in the similarly hilly terrain of Western Pennsylvania.

After the catastrophic flash flooding in central Texas on July 4, 2025, users online claimed that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration was ultimately to blame for the flood's 100 deaths due to staffing cuts at the National Weather Service.

As early as Wednesday, Texas officials were marshalling the state's emergency response resources to prepare for the coming storm. By Thursday afternoon, the National Weather Service's Austin/San ...