Some National Weather Service offices are reducing and even suspending balloon launches due to staffing issues.

A critical weather tool is disappearing as some National Weather Service officers suspend balloon launches. Monday on WRAL at 6 p.m., WRAL's team of meteorologists shares how this missing data could ...

In late March, the National Weather Service announced it would be temporarily reducing the number of weather balloon launches ...

Weather balloons are launched around the world, generally two times per day, to gather weather data from the ground up through the atmosphere. They carry small packages called a radiosonde which ...

A super pressure balloon, the size of a rugby stadium, will put NASA's technology to the test on Thursday. Lift-off was ...

A scientific balloon from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research crashed in a Sangola town residential area, 400 km from ...

This is the first we remember hearing of solar tetroons. A tetroon is actually a fairly common weather balloon design using four triangle-shaped pieces. The solar part is pretty neat, it’s a ...

LIKE A LOT OF NEBRASKANS, I’M REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE LACK OF THESE WEATHER BALLOONS GOING UP, AND I’VE BEEN HEARING A LOT FROM CONSTITUENTS ABOUT IT. MONDAY MORNING, THAT CONCERN BROUGHT ...

Take a drive through one of the Elkhorn neighborhoods affected by Friday's tornadoes in Nebraska. The National Weather Service should be classified as a public safety entity to protect it from ...

The National Weather Service (NWS) announced that it is eliminating or reducing weather balloon launches across multiple offices around the country. This comes in response to NOAA layoffs and a lack ...

Nebraska Representative Mike Flood Hops to Meet with Officials this Week to Talk About the Future of Weather Balloons in the Area Jimmy Patronis wins election for Matt Gaetz’s vacated seat Eddie ...