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

"Most weather balloons rise to about 100,000ft ... transport and dispersion of things such as pollutants and hazardous material in the atmosphere. "The model also works backwards - called back ...

China insists it was a weather ship blown astray ... 1,500m, although material is spread over a much larger area. Efforts to recover the balloon's equipment have been complicated by sea conditions ...

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