Meteorologists and former National Weather Service leaders say reducing vital weather balloon launches will degrade the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — With massive job cuts, the National Weather Service is eliminating or reducing vital weather balloon ...

Over a hundred blue, white, and silver helium balloons were released into the sky ... That’s him flying,” she said. At around 8:40 p.m., when most of the crowd had trickled away, three police ...

It takes 90 minutes to an hour to fill a weather balloon with helium or hydrogen, get it fitted with a sensor, then ready it for launch making sure the radiosonde doesn’t drag on the ground ...

A weather balloon on average often moves 40 to 60 kilometres from where it’s first launched, and in our case, lands either somewhere on the ground or in the ocean. No one collects them.

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

Observations from soundings are important inputs for assessing turbulence that may impact air travel, marine weather, fire ...

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Up until one month ago, the twice-daily launches were happening at 92 National Weather Service offices across the United ...