MISSOULA — MTN News received several reports on Monday of something floating over the skies of Montana. It turned out to be two high-altitude balloons on research flights from Aerostar, a South Dakota ...

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South Dakota's three National Weather Service (NWS) forecast offices are short of staff and sending up fewer weather balloons ...

The balloons float all the way through the troposphere, the layer of atmosphere that extends seven miles above the ground, where weather happens. And the wallet-size device they carry can detect ...

ELKHART — Fourth-grade students from Concord Ox Bow, East Side, West Side and South Side elementary schools cheered as their two weather balloons launched into a bright blue sky on Friday. “I ...

MADISON, Wis. — At first glance, it might just look like an ordinary balloon floating into the sky. But these weather balloons carry instruments that collect vital data from the atmosphere.

Already, multiple offices have reduced or eliminated daily weather balloon launches and more are likely to follow suit following a wave of early retirements taking place this week, the NOAA ...

The Associated Press reported in March that a total of 11 National Weather Service sites had reduced or eliminated their daily weather balloon launches. These gaps in the data could be the cause ...

Twice-daily weather balloon launches will be back on the schedule at the National Weather Service in Valley, Nebraska, and the office will get additional temporary staff next week, Rep. Mike ...

A member of a weather team prepares a balloon for release during a media day to learn about a field campaign to study tornadoes, in Memphis, Tennessee, on February 8, 2023. Seth Herald/Getty ...