The missing data compounds a national problem that began last year when Trump administration cuts left many weather service ...

Some 80% of weather radiosondes—remote measurement instruments containing plastic, batteries and electronic parts—end up lost in nature after one flight. But a startup created by an EPFL master's ...

The National Weather Service (NWS) is suspending radiosonde launches at select stations, with more expected, due to government staffing cuts within NOAA. Radiosondes are balloon-borne instruments ...

While hurricane hunters play a crucial role in collecting data inside a storm, local National Weather Service offices also ...

Nepal is preparing to fly radiosonde balloons to collect weather information from the stratosphere. Nepal had flown radiosonde balloons for the first time in 1978, but the weather balloon station in ...

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 ...