Weather balloon launches in Grand Junction have been limited to one per day. On March 20, the National Weather Service issued ...

Weather balloon operations will stop or be reduced at 11 locations across the country due to staffing shortages caused by ...

Billionaire Elon Musk's DOGE cuts for the Trump administration have reduced weather balloon launches, diminishing the ability ...

Some weather balloon launches have been suspended because of the Trump administration’s cuts to the National Weather Service.

The president-elect of the American Meteorological Society compares the situation to bolts in a steel office building, ...

With massive job cuts, the National Weather Service is eliminating or reducing vital weather balloon launches in eight ...

At least 11 National Weather Service offices have seen their twice-daily balloon launches to collect weather data suspended ...

Weather balloons are an “essential piece of the forecasting system.” But there will be fewer of them in tornado season this year. Following massive job cuts, the National Weather Service is ...

Earlier this month, the agency had announced weather balloon cuts in Albany, New York and Gray, Maine, and in late February, it ended launches in Kotzebue, Alaska. That makes 11 announced sites with ...

Weather balloons provide information that forecasters and computer models use to figure out what the weather will be and how dangerous it can get. WASHINGTON — With massive job cuts, the ...

WASHINGTON — With massive job cuts, the National Weather Service is eliminating or reducing vital weather balloon launches in eight northern locations, which meteorologists and former agency ...