UC Santa Cruz Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Scott Winton has been wading through thick, smelly muck in the ...

Some National Weather Service offices are reducing and even suspending balloon launches due to staffing issues.

Saturday will dawn with areas of fog and some patchy drizzle. By afternoon the day should be mainly dry, and a few peeks of ...

A 40-year-old hot air balloon operator, Vasudev Khatri, tragically lost his life during a trial run at Baran Utsav in ...

(AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) The translations are important for more than extreme weather events, said Andrew Kruczkiewicz, ...

In late March, the National Weather Service announced it would be temporarily reducing the number of weather balloon launches ...

The National Weather Service has had to scale down weather balloon launches at several offices in the United States.

After Trump administration job cuts, nearly half of National Weather Service forecast offices have 20% vacancy rates — twice ...

Detailed vacancy data for all 122 weather field offices show eight offices are missing more than 35% of their staff.

Last month, the Trump administration cut 1,000 jobs at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, which ...

Weather balloons are used frequently to gather key data on weather conditions. University of Missouri meteorology students ...

At least 10 National Weather Service locations across the continental US — mainly in the Great Lakes and out west — have either partially suspended their weather balloon launches to once a day, or ...