Weather balloons are used frequently to gather key data on weather conditions. University of Missouri meteorology students ...

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The president-elect of the American Meteorological Society compares the situation to bolts in a steel office building, ...

It takes 90 minutes to an hour to fill a weather balloon with helium or hydrogen, get it fitted with a sensor, then ready it for launch making sure the radiosonde doesn’t drag on the ground ...

The National Weather Service is cutting back weather balloon launches or eliminating them entirely at eight northern locations due to staffing issues, impacting forecast accuracy as severe weather ...

The National Weather Service is eliminating or reducing weather balloon launches in eight northern locations amid massive job cuts - experts say forecasts will worsen ...

Meteorologists Jeff Masters and Tomer Burg calculate that 14 of 83 U.S. balloon sites, or 17%, are doing partial or no launches. That includes two stations that aren't launching because of a helium ...

It takes 90 minutes to an hour to fill a weather balloon with helium or hydrogen, get it fitted with a sensor, then ready it for launch making sure the radiosonde doesn't drag on the ground ...

The release of single or multiple balloons can constitute either littering ... the environment will never be won by an “I can if she can” type approach. A helium balloon is highly attractive to marine ...