Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the ways that federal scientists obtain vital weather data is being curtailed by budget cuts from Elon Musk's Department of ...

Recent budget cuts and staffing shortages at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are leaving large parts of the country in the dark, making it harder for forecasters to gauge threats ...

Arctic communities are increasingly exposed to dangerous weather events due to climate change and rely on accurate weather ...

There are two critical pieces when launching a weather balloon: the balloon itself and a radiosonde.

These balloons carry what's called a radiosonde, which measures temperature, dew point, wind speed and many other properties of the atmosphere. While portions of the National Weather Service have ...

For decades, the National Weather Service has released weather balloons at a clockworklike cadence at more than 100 sites across the country, as well as over the Pacific and the Caribbean. Twice a day ...

GAYLORD, Michigan — On a blustery spring day here, dangerous thunderstorms are looming to the west across Minnesota and Wisconsin. John Boris, a National Weather Service meteorologist, is on duty to ...

High school students in Saranac Lake designed and built a weather balloon and launched it into the atmosphere earlier this ...

The reduction of launches at six stations is the latest in a growing string of balloon cancellations as the agency adapts to a shrinking staff. NOAA is “temporarily reducing” weather balloon flights ...

A United Airlines flight was diverted last week after its windshield was cracked by an object. Now a weather balloon company says it’s “quite likely” their balloon did it. By Aimee Ortiz A weather ...