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

With massive job cuts, the National Weather Service is eliminating or reducing vital weather balloon launches in eight ...

With massive job cuts, the National Weather Service is eliminating or reducing vital weather balloon launches in eight ...

There are many factors that go in to making the forecasts that meteorologists make when predicting the weather. That ...

A New Orleans firefighter killed last week following a crash on I-10 in Ascension Parish will be remembered with a balloon release Wednesday. The balloon release will be held at Iggy's Bar on Rampart ...

GREEN BAY ― Staffing shortages will result in weather balloons launching only once a day from the National Weather Service's ...

but the weather balloons provide the key middle part of the forecasting puzzle — the atmosphere — where so much weather brews, several meteorologists said. All of the 10 announced reductions ...