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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Nepal is preparing to fly radiosonde balloons to collect weather information from the stratosphere. Nepal had flown radiosonde balloons for the first time in 1978, but the weather balloon station in ...

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, ...