If you’re trying to do that, 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 ...

The weather balloon being inflated at launch - it would ... They probably hit the balloon too. But those small bullet holes and a balloon that size would have almost no effect," Mr Sommerfeldt ...

The U.S. National Weather Service sends up a large number ... Once the balloon gets too high, the pressure inside bursts the balloon, and a small parachute slows the instrument package’s descent ...

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