At least 10 National Weather Service locations across the continental US — mainly in the Great Lakes and out west — have ...

At least 11 National Weather Service offices around the country have seen their twice-daily balloon launches to collect weather data either suspended or reduced in number as the service copes with ...

The U.S. government is scaling back weather balloon launches. Here is why a weather balloon is such an important tool for weather forecasting.

March 27 (UPI) --Billionaire Elon Musk's DOGE cuts for the Trump administration have reduced weather balloon launches, diminishing the ability to accurately forecast extreme weather, experts say.

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

the National Weather Service is eliminating or reducing vital weather balloon launches in eight northern locations, which meteorologists and former agency leaders said will degrade the accuracy of ...

Lofted beneath a weather balloon into the stratosphere, a radiosonde transmits a wealth of data back to the ground before returning on a parachute after the balloon bursts. [Mark] had his eyes on ...

the National Weather Service in Davenport launches weather balloons. They tell us what’s going on now, so the First Alert Weather Team can tell you what’s next. Up until one month ago ...

it’s just a matter of waiting for the target height before separating from the weather balloon, then using the servos to navigate to the landing zone. Unfortunately the project was never fully ...

staffing shortages at nearly a dozen National Weather Service offices will mean fewer weather balloon launches. Last week, eight additional National Weather Service offices joined the growing list ...

The Trump administration is pausing at least a handful of balloon launches that collect weather data in at least three locations due to staffing shortages. On Friday, the administration said it ...