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 ...

A Chinese spy balloon spotted over American skies has people across the country turning to Google to find out more. The balloon was spotted over Montana, at which time Pentagon officials considered ...

MASON COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- A Mason County woman made a rare discovery along the Lake Michigan shoreline — finding ...

Weather balloons are launched from about 900 locations around the world two times daily to collect information on temperature, humidity, and winds at various levels in the atmosphere. The National ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — The National Weather Service in Fort Worth is responsible for forecasting the weather across all North and Central Texas. Part of the responsibility includes launching weather ...

Since the 1930's, the National Weather Service has taken upper air observations using weather balloons. The information they gathered then was just as important as it is today. I visited the Tampa Bay ...

Weather balloon launches in Grand Junction have been limited to one per day. On March 20, the National Weather Service issued a memo regarding the “Reduction of Radiosonde Observations (RAOB)” to one ...

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 ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — One Virginia Beach man got a surprise when he noticed something hanging from a tree in his backyard. Click here to subscribe to WAVY’s breaking news email alert That thing ...

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 ...