Predicting severe weather is critical to saving lives and property in North Texas. The National Weather Service in Fort Worth uses several tools, one of which is weather balloons, to provide the most ...

“A transmitter on the radiosonde sends the data back to tracking equipment on the ground every one to two seconds. By ...

Over half of the National Weather Service offices across the United States release weather balloons every day. Typically, these balloons are released twice per day — once in the morning and once in ...

FARGO — As temperatures start to warm this spring, our StormTRACKER team gets closer to saying goodbye to forecasting snow and starts monitoring the potential for storms to develop. One of the key ...

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

With massive job cuts, the National Weather Service is eliminating or reducing vital weather balloon launches in eight northern locations, which meteorologists and former agency leaders said will ...