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

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

The weather service ended weather balloon launches altogether in multiple locations, including Omaha, citing a lack of ...

Meteorologists and former agency leaders say the cuts in weather balloon launches will degrade the accuracy of forecasts just as severe weather season kicks in.

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Spirit, the school mascot, poses with a disappointed but smiling Morgan Lashley-Haynes who holds the deflated dud, Balloon #1. The launch begins. After filling balloon #1 with helium, Jansen ...

Now as he continues to explore the medium and expand his creative curiosity, early ventures into creating wall art and sculptures from deflated balloons is literally taking off.