National Weather Service offices across the country are suspending or reducing weather balloon flights due to low staffing.
Our lives are surprisingly dependent upon this extremely light and unreactive gas, yet supplies of it are remarkably fragile.
Our lives are surprisingly dependent upon this extremely light and unreactive gas, yet supplies of it are remarkably fragile.
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The Trump administration's staff cuts have led to reduced weather balloon launches at multiple sites, impacting real-time data collection.
Some weather balloon launches have been suspended because of the Trump administration’s cuts to the National Weather Service.
With massive job cuts, the National Weather Service is eliminating or reducing vital weather balloon launches in eight ...
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 ...
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 ...