Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday he supports DOGE, but also praised the National Hurricane Center and said it will probably be "OK."

About 10% of the NOAA workforce was laid off, according to some reports, in a move that could kneecap the agency's ability to forecast local and national weather events.

Federal workers who were not let go said the afternoon layoffs included meteorologists who do crucial local forecasts in National Weather Service offices across the country. Cuts at NOAA appeared to be happening in two rounds,

The two rounds of departures together represent about 10 percent of NOAA’s roughly 13,000 employees. A spokesman for the agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Scientists and researchers are warning that the Trump Administration's firing of hundreds of workers at NOAA — the agency that provides U.S. forecasts for the government — could put American lives at risk.

Sources said on Thursday that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration became the latest federal agency to be hit with job cuts, possibly affecting up to 1,830 probationary workers.

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

Former NOAA officials warned that jobs cuts undermine critical weather forecasting and basic science that companies and communities rely on.