Don and Brian Cleaver are the father-and-son team from Toms River who launched a Jersey Shore aeronautical adventure into the ...

In this edition of Weather Tidbits, we’ll be discussing weather balloons. The National Weather Service launches weather balloons twice a day to collect data and observations of the atmosphere. Once in ...

A weather balloon released by the National Weather Service (NWS) took off like a shot in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Tuesday, March 18, amid a dust storm warning in the region.The NWS issued the ...

The Trump administration is pausing at least a handful of balloon launches that collect weather data in at least three ...

GRAY, Maine — Weather balloon launches are essential to weather forecasting. They are launched all over the country, mainly ...

Two U.S. offices within the National Weather Service are suspending some of their weather balloon launches in the first ...

Within hours of the news, forecasters at news outlets throughout the country decried the decision, saying that it would ...

It took a few tries and $700 of equipment, but Don and Brian Cleaver figured out how to take a phone to the edge of space with a weather balloon launched from Jackson. The package eventually ...

The National Weather Service says it has to suspend some weather balloon launches in Albany and other locations. Weather balloons are launched into the sky and sample the weather up above us.

The National Weather Service is temporarily grounding weather balloons in New York and Maine due to staffing shortages. These ...

The agency recently halted a weather balloon launch in Albany, which forecasters relied on for up-to-date weather data. Experts say that could put New Yorkers at risk during the next storm.