High-altitude balloon photography offers a glimpse of Earth's landscapes from the stratosphere, a perspective typically ...

The weather balloon being inflated at launch ... But those small bullet holes and a balloon that size would have almost no effect," Mr Sommerfeldt said. It was also shadowed by British and ...

Today, there are about 1,300 stations globally that release balloons—each one more than three times the size of a standard beach ball—to inform weather reports as well as warnings for storms ...

The data sampled by weather balloons gets fed into forecast models, making the forecast clearer days ahead of a storm.