The remnants of at least six weather balloons have washed up on south-west Victorian shores in recent months. Volunteers for a beach clean up crew have called the discarded technology state ...

Take a drive through one of the Elkhorn neighborhoods affected by Friday's tornadoes in Nebraska. The National Weather Service should be classified as a public safety entity to protect it from ...

One of the key tools they look at is the data relayed by weather balloons. Weather doesn’t just happen here at the ground, yes, it’s where most of us feel the impacts of a storm system moving ...

There is also a GPS element that tracks wind speed and direction. Weather balloons are filled with either helium or hydrogen and when released, they are about five feet in diameter. As the balloon ...

Some National Weather Service offices are reducing and even suspending balloon launches due to staffing issues. Chris Michaels, WRAL meteorologist A critical weather tool is disappearing.