With recent cuts at the National Weather Service and NOAA, here are five things to know about your weather forecasts.

Cuts at NOAA mean fewer hurricane-hunter aircrafts will be gathering real time data on developing storms and that the team developing computer models for forecasts will be "gutted," insiders say.

A broad trough extends across northwestern New South Wales while another trough is weakening over central parts of the coast this evening. Another trough is forecast to bring a southerly change to the ...