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

The cuts to NOAA and the National Weather Service (NWS) have sparked concerns that storms could become more deadly without ...

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

Some National Weather Service offices are reducing and even suspending balloon launches due to staffing issues.

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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.

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.

The balloons are filled with helium to be roughly five feet in diameter and released at the same time from all participating weather stations, in what the Weather Service calls its Upper Air ...

Weather balloons are an “essential piece of the forecasting system.” But there will be fewer of them in tornado season this year.