Some 80% of weather radiosondes—remote measurement instruments containing plastic, batteries and electronic parts—end up lost in nature after one flight. But a startup created by an EPFL master's ...

While hurricane hunters play a crucial role in collecting data inside a storm, local National Weather Service offices also ...

The National Weather Service (NWS) is suspending radiosonde launches at select stations, with more expected, due to government staffing cuts within NOAA. Radiosondes are balloon-borne instruments ...

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 ...

Meteorological organisations across the world launch weather balloons on a regular basis as a part of their work in predicting whether or not it will rain on the weekend. Their payloads are called ...

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 ...

The city of Atlanta was temporarily on alert this week when a suspicious package was found near the Capitol building in Georgia's largest city. The headlines on Thursday May 17th were talking about a ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forecasting the weather is sometimes like trying to predict a person's mood: invisible, complicated, and always changing. However, ...