{"id":50198,"date":"2025-07-09T01:48:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T01:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/50198\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T01:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T01:48:15","slug":"new-meteorologist-in-charge-appointed-for-national-weather-services-houston-galveston-office-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/50198\/","title":{"rendered":"New meteorologist-in-charge appointed for National Weather Service\u2019s Houston-Galveston office \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Travis Bubenik\/Houston Public Media<\/p>\n

Pictured is the Galveston County Emergency Management building in League City, which houses the National Weather Service\u2019s Houston-Galveston office<\/p>\n

Several months after the meteorologist-in-charge at the National Weather Service\u2019s Houston-Galveston office opted for early retirement, the federal agency overseeing the weather service has appointed a replacement. <\/p>\n

Matt Moreland is taking on the role, according to a Monday announcement by Todd Lericos, the acting meteorologist-in-charge at the Houston-Galveston office. <\/p>\n

“Mr. Moreland currently serves as a senior advisor to the director of the National Weather Service,” Lericos said in a news release. “He previously led the Science and Technology Service Division at our Southern region headquarters and has served as meteorologist-in-charge at National Weather Service offices in San Diego, California, and Key West, Florida.” <\/p>\n

Moreland also previously worked at the Houston-Galveston office for over a decade, from 1998 to 2011. Lericos said Moreland is expected to begin his new role sometime in August, but a start date had not yet been set. <\/p>\n

Moreland did not immediately respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n

Jeffry Evans was the previous full-time meteorologist-in-charge. He had more than 30 years of experience with the National Weather Service (NWS) and had been at the Houston-Galveston office for eight years. <\/p>\n

Evans\u2019 last day was Feb. 27, according to ABC 13<\/a>. Evans was one of three top leaders at the Houston-Galveston office to take an early retirement offer from the federal government, after President Donald Trump’s administration issued a hiring freeze for the organization. <\/p>\n

“The three of us oversaw basically the operation for the local office, but we were all in our mid-upper 50s and ended up taking the early retirement offers,” Evans said, speaking on Hello Houston<\/a> in May. “What that ended up doing is leaving a void for local office leadership.”<\/p>\n

As of Tuesday, the Houston-Galveston office still listed 11 vacancies<\/a> on its website, including the position Moreland will soon take over.<\/p>\n

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which oversees the NWS, has recently come under renewed criticism about its staffing cuts after the July 4 flooding in the Texas Hill Country left at least 100 people dead across several counties. <\/p>\n

RELATED: <\/b>How good was the forecast? Texas officials and the National Weather Service disagree<\/b><\/a> <\/b><\/p>\n

In early May, Houston lawmakers sent a letter to NOAA demanding answers<\/a> regarding the staffing shortage at the Houston-Galveston office. Less than a month later, Trump issued a temporary exemption<\/a> to fill “critical positions” at the weather service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Travis Bubenik\/Houston Public Media Pictured is the Galveston County Emergency Management building in League City, which houses the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[9094,4345,425,12231,6231,37957,50,80,5005,358,3187,313],"class_list":{"0":"post-50198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-galveston","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-local","11":"tag-national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration","12":"tag-national-weather-service","13":"tag-national-weather-service-houston-galveston","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-president-donald-trump","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-tx","19":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114820763476397260","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}