The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is dealing with the impacts of funding cuts from the Trump administration, and the effect on weather forecasting.

The president cut 20% of NOAA’s staff, including staff at the National Weather Service.

Bridge Michigan reports that means 1 in 4 weather balloons are now flying at different times as a result, which creates gaps in the data that forecasters rely on to keep an eye on storm activity and make timely predictions.

Some weather watchers are calling for weather forecasting to become privatized. Critics of the funding cuts say the missing data has impacts on the interpretation of weather models, and the tracking of the jet stream.

Large data errors can result over the Great Lakes, impacting prediction models.