🌞 NWS La Crosse Is Hiring!

Join our team of dedicated professionals at NWS La Crosse!

The National Weather Service, including our local office here in La Crosse, continues to hire early-career meteorologists with a new round of hiring! Are you interested in contributing directly to public safety and national resilience? As an NWS meteorologist, you will regularly perform the following duties:

Forecast weather, water, and climate hazards with associated societal risks to produce and communicate life-saving impact-based warnings, advisories, outlooks and general forecasts
Deliver impact-based decision support services including tailored products, specialized notifications, remote briefings, and on-site deployments for core partners that share a role in public safety
Collect, assess, analyze, and integrate a complete set of environmental data in order to provide forecasts of critical elements at global, synoptic, and mesoscale levels
...and many more!

Employment conditions:

Work is performed in a typical office setting
Rotating shift work is required as the office operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week
During periods of threatening weather or rapidly changing weather conditions, the increase in workload and the necessity for rapid dissemination of weather warnings and updates requires periods of acute mental alertness and produces considerable mental stress
Adverse weather conditions often require the incumbent to work hours longer than the usual shift, adding to mental and physical stress

If you applied for earlier rounds of hiring this year and are still interested in joining our team, you must apply to this NEW announcement below to be considered for these new opportunities. We strongly advise applying ASAP to increase your chance of being included on an applicant panel. The first review cycle closes October 17, 2026!

Apply for this position (apply ASAP to increase your chances!)

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We hope you consider joining our team! 😃⛅⛈️🌪️❄️