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

Recent budget cuts and staffing shortages at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are leaving large parts of ...

WASHINGTON — With massive job cuts, the National Weather Service is eliminating or reducing vital weather balloon launches in eight northern locations, which meteorologists and former agency leaders ...

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 ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A behind-the-scenes tool in weather forecasting is quietly being scaled back as the U.S. government is cutting back on weather balloon launches. Several National Weather Service (NWS ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...