In this edition of Weather Tidbits, we’ll be discussing weather balloons. The National Weather Service launches weather balloons twice a day to collect data and observations of the atmosphere. Once in ...

Within hours of the news, forecasters at news outlets throughout the country decried the decision, saying that it would ...

Long talk story about the temperature of the upper atmosphere, how it's measured; flight of the highest man-carrying balloon; instrument-carrying balloon; instrument-carrying V-2 rocket ...

The balloons carry an instrument pack that documents temperature and humidity up to about 100,000 feet in the atmosphere before the balloons pop and the pack falls back to earth. The pack sends data ...

Radiosondes, which are instruments attached to weather balloons, provide critical meteorological data, including temperature, humidity, pressure, wind speed, and wind direction, supporting weather ...