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

Weather balloon launches are essential to weather forecasting. They are launched all over the country, mainly by employees at local National Weather Services (NWS) offices, several times a day. As ...

The Trump administration is pausing at least a handful of balloon launches that collect weather data in at least three ...

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

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

This decision has raised concerns among forecasters about its impact on weather predictions, who use these balloons to ...