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

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

Meteorologists Jeff Masters and Tomer Burg calculate that 14 of 83 U.S. balloon sites, or 17%, are doing partial or no launches. That includes two stations that aren’t launching because of a ...

Since 1989, Serengeti Balloon Safaris has helped park visitors take to the skies to spot animals and watch the park's famous Great Migration. The company's fleet of eight-, 12- and 16-passenger ...

Experts say US weather forecasts will worsen as DOGE cuts mean fewer balloon launches The normally twice-daily launches of weather balloons in about 100 locations provide information that ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — With massive job cuts, the National Weather Service is eliminating or reducing vital weather balloon launches in eight northern locations, which meteorologists and former ...