Lucas, a 4th grader at Sugar Creek Consolidated Elementary school, found a National Weather Service Weather Balloon in a tree ...

National Weather Service branches around the US launch two weather balloons every day, sometimes three. This adds up to more than 80,000 balloons each year. It stands to reason, then, that these ...

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, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The chair of the National Transportation Safety Board said on Tuesday that a weather balloon may be responsible for cracking the windshield of a United Airlines jet at 36,000 ...

WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board said on Tuesday that a weather balloon may be responsible for cracking the windshield of a United Airlines jet at 36,000 feet, prompting an ...

A United Airlines plane appears to have collided with a weather balloon while cruising over Utah at 36,000 feet last week, fracturing layers of its windshield and forcing an emergency landing. A ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – My friend Steve McLaughlin and I both graduated from the SUNY Brockport meteorology program years ago. While I went into a career in broadcast meteorology, Steve joined the National ...