Two California National Weather Service offices will no longer operate 24 hours per day, curtailing the output of an agency that issues extreme weather warnings for more than 7 million Californians in the Central Valley, the Chronicle has confirmed. The moves come amid a broader upheaval of weather service operations touched off by federal budget cuts. Collectively, the Sacramento and Hanford (Kings County) offices provide forecasts from Redding to Bakersfield, including Lassen, Yosemite, Kings and Sequoia national parks. Officials have previously said the two weather service offices were enduring “critically reduced staffing” levels after early career meteorologists were fired in February and two separate rounds of retirement offers.

Other weather forecasting news:

• The Washington Post: Where local forecast offices no longer monitor weather around-the-clock
• Times of San Diego: Trump budget would cut ocean data — leaving boaters, forecasters, others scrambling for info
• The Arizona Republic (Phoenix): Arizona’s monsoon is critical for wildfires, drought. Why is it so hard to predict?
• BBC: The pilots chasing ’sky rivers’ and cyclones from Japan to the US
• NPR: Where does your weather forecast come from?​