The Trump administration has informed NOAA that two pivotal centers for weather forecasting will soon have their leases canceled, sources told Axios. Why it matters: One of the buildings is the nerve center for generating national weather forecasts.

The American Meteorological Society said the federal cuts are "likely to cause irreparable harm." Alan Holt explains how NOAA models help inform everyday forecasts.

NOAA staff members, like thousands of others, were caught up in the mass terminations underway in the federal government.