At least 11 National Weather Service offices have seen their twice-daily balloon launches to collect weather data suspended ...

In a world increasingly reliant on accurate weather forecasts, the recent suspension of weather balloon launches by the National Weather Service (NWS) raises significant concerns. For over 100 years, ...

Some weather balloon launches have been suspended because of the Trump administration’s cuts to the National Weather Service.

The announcement by the National Weather Service (NWS) regarding cutbacks in weather balloon launches has raised significant concerns within the meteorological community. This decision marks one of ...

A meteorologist has told Newsweek cuts overseen by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) could make it ...

The president-elect of the American Meteorological Society compares the situation to bolts in a steel office building, ...

Weather balloons are the best platform for collecting weather data and is utilized in predicting changes in atmospheric ...

These weather balloons carry "radiosonde" instruments that send back a range of data from the upper atmosphere that supports weather forecasts, including temperature, dew point, relative humidity ...

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The balloons are among the most important sources of data for weather models, he and other forecasters said. When they compared various instruments used to aid forecasting, NASA researchers found ...