Short-staffed National Weather Service field offices will be given special temporary authority to bring in additional staff ...

The "age of stratospheric air" measures the speed of the global transport circulation in the stratosphere, which is crucial ...

The company, Make Sunsets, launches balloons that release sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere. The gas—less than what is ...

A “lighter-than-air” high-altitude balloon flew over Moab and into Southwest Colorado Monday morning, April 22 on its way to ...

A good estimation of the cloud tops is like the finest gold, especially for pilots flying under IFR during the winter months.

Over the last several weeks, KHON2 received numerous calls and e-mails about a balloon flying high over Oahu and Molokai.

Some National Weather Service offices are reducing and even suspending balloon launches due to staffing issues. Chris Michaels, WRAL meteorologist A critical weather tool is disappearing.

Weather balloons are a weather tool that has been used by the National Weather Service since the 1930s. Fact sheet about weather balloons These balloons carry what's called a radiosonde ...

its weather balloon network, surface stations, buoys out in the ocean and more. If NOAA can’t operate at its usual levels, the forecasts you get from that app could become a lot less accurate.

Without real-time information from weather balloons and other sensors, models become guesses. That’s not just a technical problem. It’s a safety issue.

THAT’S WHY HE ALSO SUPPORTS EFFORTS BY NEBRASKA’S CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION TO KEEP CONSERVATION PROGRAMS IN THE FARM BILL, AS WELL AS RESTORE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALLOON LAUNCHES.

the National Weather Service announced it would be temporarily reducing the number of weather balloon launches from 11 stations, including Grand Junction, as the federal agency grapples with ...