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 ...

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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 ...

These instrument packages are attached to weather balloons that lift them through the troposphere, or the lowest layer of the ...

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In a statement, the director of the NWS surface and upper air division said the suspension is effective immediately and will ...

The National Weather Service is suspending launches of weather balloons at its station in Gray, citing staffing shortfalls. The changes are "effective immediately, and until further notice," the ...

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