Layoffs and closures at NOAA raise concerns over the future of essential weather services, with significant job losses and operational capacities threatened by the Trump administration's budget cuts.

Former NOAA heads warn that massive firings at the agency will endanger lives and hurt the U.S. economy by disrupting critical weather forecasts and monitoring services.

NASA satellites recently captured images showing five tropical cyclones in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, marking a rare occurrence of concurrent storms in these regions. The events underline the importance of satellite missions like NOAA-20 in tracking such weather phenomena, especially given the impacts of climate change.