The National Weather Service (NWS) on Thursday announced further reduction in its schedule of weather balloon launches—a ...

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"Taking weather balloons offline in the heartland of the ... from instruments aboard commercial aircraft, surface observing stations, satellites, radars and buoys,” the announcements stated.

That makes 11 announced sites with reduced or eliminated balloon observations, or about one out of nine launch locations which include part of the Pacific and Caribbean. Among regularly reporting ...

In late March, the National Weather Service announced it would be temporarily reducing the number of weather balloon launches ...

So while having a vast network of airports and other weather stations across the nation helps ... changing in the sky and that’s where weather balloons come into the equation.

Among regularly reporting weather stations, NOAA had averaged about only one outage of balloon launches a day from 2021 to 2024, according to an Associated Press analysis of launch data.

Among regularly reporting weather stations, NOAA had averaged about only one outage of balloon launches a day from 2021 to 2024, according to an Associated Press analysis of launch data.

Normally, the statement said, weather balloons are launched twice a day ... "The data collected by the network of radiosonde stations is also the basic ingredient that goes into computer models ...

Among regularly reporting weather stations, NOAA had averaged about only one outage of balloon launches a day from 2021 to 2024, according to an Associated Press analysis of launch data.