The balloon transmits real-time data back to the NWS office, where Gross and his colleagues can monitor conditions in the atmosphere. "There's no more key ingredient to analyzing weather to ...

Email [email protected]. Whenever Laure Reuters from Oconomowoc sees people releasing balloons, she wonders why it isn't considered littering. "It's pollution," Reuters, 72, told Public ...

Millions were left powerless in Spain, Portugal and France on April 28 after what officials called an "induced atmospheric vibration," or a rare phenomenon where weather changes affect power lines.

The Yusen Terminals facility at the Port of Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California. After cruising along comfortably for most of last year, the world’s largest economy lost altitude at the start ...

Losing even just a few of those balloon launches each day leaves a bit of a void in our analysis of the current conditions of the upper atmosphere. In this week’s column I’ll describe what ...