If your hobby is chasing radiosondes across vast stretches of open country, and if you get good enough at it, you’ll eventually end up with a collection of the telemetry packages that once went up on ...

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 ...

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, ...

Meteorological organisations across the world launch weather balloons on a regular basis as a part of their work in predicting whether or not it will rain on the weekend. Their payloads are called ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The city of Atlanta was temporarily on alert this week when a suspicious package was found near the Capitol building in Georgia's largest city. The headlines on Thursday May 17th were talking about a ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forecasting the weather is sometimes like trying to predict a person's mood: invisible, complicated, and always changing. However, ...