[David] notes that using some pretty simple gear, he could track down weather balloons. The U.S. National Weather Service sends up a large number of radiosondes attached to balloons twice a day.

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

The next wintry storm system to move into North Carolina arrives late Friday into early Saturday. As is usually the case, the ...

you might find some value in the Tiny4FSK project from the New England Weather Balloon Society. Tiny4FSK is intended to be a very small solution for high-altitude tracking. As you might have ...

"We do know that the balloon was able to be manoeuvred and purposely driven along its track," said spokesperson ... Chinese officials say it was a civilian weather balloon and that the US ...

"Most weather balloons rise to about 100,000ft ... We don't have flight tracking data that we would for commercial airliner, for example, so we need to look to other sources of information.

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

A shift in the track of the low will determine where ... The National Weather Service started launching weather balloons in the 1930s (when it was formerly known as the Weather Bureau).