Don and Brian Cleaver are the father-and-son team from Toms River who launched a Jersey Shore aeronautical adventure into the ...

Weather balloon launches are essential to weather forecasting. They are launched all over the country, mainly by employees at ...

In this edition of Weather Tidbits, we’ll be discussing weather balloons. The National Weather Service launches weather balloons twice a day to collect data and observations of the atmosphere. Once in ...

The Trump administration is pausing at least a handful of balloon launches that collect weather data in at least three ...

On top of all that, there’s a federal-building fire sale underway. DOGE has begun the process of canceling leases on hundreds ...

NOAA, which provides data for morning forecasts and hurricane models, has laid off more than 800 employees and plans to cut 1,000 more ...

Within hours of the news, forecasters at news outlets throughout the country decried the decision, saying that it would ...

The National Weather Service is temporarily grounding weather balloons in New York and Maine due to staffing shortages. These ...

Two U.S. offices within the National Weather Service are suspending some of their weather balloon launches in the first ...

The National Weather Service says it has to suspend some weather balloon launches in Albany and other locations. Weather balloons are launched into the sky and sample the weather up above us.

An independent meteorologist who relies on the National Weather Service details the risk the public faces from staff cuts.