A balloon, a string, and a Styrofoam box make up one of the National Weather Service’s most trusted forecasting tools, according to meteorologists at the agency’s Springfield office.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you start seeing giant balloons floating around the sky in the West Valley, just know they're not UFOs and nobody's spying on ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before KARE 11 chief meteorologist John Zeigler preps his forecast each day, he looks to a trusted source of data that comes ...

The valuable part of the Air Force’s contract with WindBorne is not the balloons themselves, but the long-term atmospheric ...

The National Weather Service in Wilmington, Ohio, launches weather balloons twice a day to gather critical atmospheric data that helps meteorologists create accurate forecasts. Logan Clark, a ...

The U.S. Air Force will buy data collected by WindBorne Systems‘ fleet of autonomous weather balloons under a new contract that could be worth nearly $50 million to the startup. WindBorne currently ...

High school students in Saranac Lake designed and built a weather balloon and launched it into the atmosphere earlier this spring. A lot of work and planning went into the project up until launch day, ...

WILMINGTON — Hundreds of weather balloons are sent into the sky twice a day around the world, including here in the Miami Valley. “This is the antenna right here, this is the piece we will attach the ...