As hurricane season begins, experts in storms and disasters are worried about massive cuts to the federal system that forecasts, tracks and responds to the storms.

As tornadoes popped up from Kansas to Kentucky, a depleted National Weather Service was in scramble mode.

Data obtained by The Associated Press shows that close to half of the local National Weather Service forecast offices have 20% vacancy rates as severe weather chugs across the nation’s heartland.

Join Bryan Norcross and Luke Dorris for an in-depth conversation with the retiring Director of the National Weather Service, Louis Uccellini. Hear about Louis’s extraordinary career as a key player in everything to do with the science and practice of forecasting the weather in the United States and around the world.

National Weather Service chief Louis Uccellini says he will retire at the end of the year.

Many people are asking why no one foretold of the deadly ramifications of Hurricane Ida's remnants in the Northeast, but some did.

Meteorologists say natural and man-made forces made Ida deadly and devastating in the New York and New Jersey area even though the weakened storm made landfall more than 1,000 miles away.

Bryan talks with Dr. Louis Uccellini, the Director of the National Weather Service, about the new forecast for Hurricane Season 2020, operating the National Weather Service in a pandemic, how the American computer forecast model compares to others in the world, and much more. Download the audio podcast below. SUBSCRIBE to The Bryan Norcross Podcast - iTunes | Android