This may surprise you, but weather balloons launched by the National Weather Service are one of the most critical elements in the creation of weather forecasts, and they have been since the 1930s. But ...

Radiosondes – the telemetry packages carried aloft by sounding balloons for atmospheric weather data measurements – are regularly used by weather bureaus around the world to collect data, and there ...

Some retirees take up fly fishing. Others pick up golf. But when Roland—or “F5ZV,” as he’s known on ham radio—left his job in Belfort, France a decade ago, he devoted his newfound leisure to a far ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- There has been a lot of curiosity about what exactly is flying over us in the sky. Did you know the National Weather Service launches more than 60,000 weather balloons into the ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Weather balloons play a crucial role in helping meteorologists gather detailed information about our atmosphere. They are launched twice daily from nearly 900 sites worldwide, ...

Ever since I first learned about radiosondes as a kid, I’ve been fascinated by them. To my young mind, the idea that weather bureaus around the world would routinely loft instrument-laden packages ...

But none is of greater importance than the radiosonde. What’s a radiosonde? Well, you will find the answer at the Royal School of Artillery at Larkhill on Salisbury Plain. It is from here that the Met ...

Nepal is preparing to fly radiosonde balloons to collect weather information from the stratosphere. Nepal had flown radiosonde balloons for the first time in 1978, but the weather balloon station in ...

Forecasting the weather is sometimes like trying to predict a person's mood: invisible, complicated, and always changing. However, we have special tools that can help forecasters know what mood Mother ...