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The cuts could affect more than 10% of the employees at the agency, according to two sources with internal knowledge of the agency.

The Trump administration's latest round of federal terminations included firing hundreds of staffers at NOAA and the National Weather Service last week.

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Scientists worry there will be immediate harm from the Trump administration's latest federal workforce cuts, which hit NOAA and the National Weather Service.

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

The Trump administration may end leases for some of NOAA's offices while the agency terminates several advisory committees at the important weather and climate agency.

A White House official said “an extensive process” was conducted before the NOAA layoffs to ensure “mission critical functions” weren’t compromised.

The people who once ran the federal weather and oceans agency say it touches people’s daily lives in unnoticed ways and that massive firings there could cause needless deaths and a big hit to America’s economy.

Hundreds of weather forecasters and other federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration employees on probationary status have been fired, lawmakers and weather experts say