I’ve spent a lot of time in the woods over the intervening years, but I’ve never seen a radiosonde in the wild. The closest I ever came was finding a balloon with a note saying it had been ...

Once you’ve torn one or two down though, the novelty must wear off, which is where this radiosonde conversion to an active L-band antenna comes from. As it happens, we recently discussed the ...

In this edition of Weather Tidbits, we’ll be discussing weather balloons. The National Weather Service launches weather balloons twice a day to collect data and observations of the atmosphere. Once in ...

A round of expected layoffs in addition to last month's cuts at NOAA, the nation's weather, ocean, and fisheries agency, will ...

But it’s not the balloon itself, it’s the instrument package that the balloon carries high into the sky, and that instrument pack is called a radiosonde. A radiosonde consists of three sensors ...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) centre at the Central University launched a Radiosonde here on Wednesday for atmospheric data collection. The Eighth Radiosonde was successfully ...

Chandigarh will soon get a radiosonde system at India Meteorological Department’s station in Sector 39 that will help improve fog forecasts for the region. This, along with other new weather ...