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

With massive job cuts, the National Weather Service is reducing vital weather balloon launches in eight northern locations ...

At least 11 National Weather Service offices have seen their twice-daily balloon launches to collect weather data suspended ...

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 s ...

The reduction of launches at six stations is the latest in a growing string of balloon cancellations as the agency adapts to ...

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 ...

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.