A new weather balloon launch site at Shasta College will help scientists track atmospheric rivers and improve weather ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the ways that federal scientists obtain vital weather data is being curtailed by budget cuts from Elon Musk's Department of ...

Data from balloons sent up by the National Weather Service is a big part of how meteorologists can see rain and storms coming well in advance.

The volatile weather in Saskatchewan this summer has led to more opportunities for Yorkton storm hunter Ryan Crouse. “June was amazing, probably the best June I’ve ever had in my life,” he said. “I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A tornado outbreak near Kansas City, Kansas, on Monday night came as a surprise. At least three injuries were reported after at ...

Weather forecasting today runs on rivers of data. But there’s almost no data available from vast stretches of the planet—open ocean, polar regions, and remote sections of the world. That’s a problem ...

A United Airlines flight was diverted last week after its windshield was cracked by an object. Now a weather balloon company says it’s “quite likely” their balloon did it. By Aimee Ortiz A weather ...

A 360-degree camera attached to a weather balloon captured an airliner flying beneath it at an astonishing speed of 500 miles per hour (800 kilometers per hour). It was recorded by Project Dorothy ...

A Silicon Valley startup that uses weather balloons and AI to predict the weather won a US military contract worth almost $50 ...

Weather balloons are wasteful, and not very eco-friendly – they burst upon reaching high altitudes, then fall back to the earth as trash that rarely gets recovered. That's why there's now a reusable ...