If your hobby is chasing radiosondes across vast stretches of open country, and if you get good enough at it, you’ll eventually end up with a collection of the telemetry packages that once went up on ...

Ever since I first learned about radiosondes as a kid, I’ve been fascinated by them. To my young mind, the idea that weather bureaus around the world would routinely loft instrument-laden packages ...

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 ...

NOAA staffing cuts have caused the indefinite suspension of radiosonde launches at three upper-air stations, with more expected. Radiosondes are balloon-borne instruments that measure atmospheric ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Weather balloons play a crucial role in helping meteorologists gather detailed information about our atmosphere. They are launched twice daily from nearly 900 sites worldwide, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- There has been a lot of curiosity about what exactly is flying over us in the sky. Did you know the National Weather Service launches more than 60,000 weather balloons into the ...

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 ...

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 ...

But none is of greater importance than the radiosonde. What’s a radiosonde? Well, you will find the answer at the Royal School of Artillery at Larkhill on Salisbury Plain. It is from here that the Met ...

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 ...

But most don't pose a danger to aviation, an expert told ABC News. With the recent shootdowns of "high-altitude objects," there's heightened awareness about what's flying in U.S. airspace, especially ...