Five tornadoes hit the Kansas City area Monday night. Did a change in National Weather Service balloon launches leave ...

Fewer balloon launches may mean less information for storm models during fast-changing conditions and severe weather season.

Travis O’Brien, associate professor in the IU department of earth and atmospheric sciences, started the program with ...

Researchers and students at Indiana University Bloomington have launched a new weather balloon initiative to improve local ...

On December 7, 2025, in Miami, Florida, USA, @AdrianLinares28 shared a video of a weather-balloon launch conducted by the local weather service office. The video shows a man outdoors preparing and ...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - As forecasters watch the potential for severe weather moving toward the Brazos Valley this weekend, students and staff at Texas A&M University launched a weather ...

As Western North Carolinians braced for an incoming winter storm last week, professor Doug Miller and his students in the University of North Carolina Asheville’s Department of Atmospheric Sciences ...

AUTHORITY TO PAUSE THE PROJECT. FIRE CREWS IN HUDSON HAD TO HELP GET A WEATHER BALLOON OUT OF A TREE. AN MIT RESEARCH TEAM CALLED FOR HELP SUNDAY AFTER ONE OF ITS BALLOONS GOT CAUGHT IN THE BRANCHES ...

World View’s Stratollite flies closer to Earth than a satellite. Here's where it flew over Florida. Did you see it?

In the early hours of Feb. 25, 1942, coastal defense forces in Los Angeles opened fire fearing a Japanese attack. A military review concluded a meteorological balloon launch was the likely cause of ...