SLIDELL, La. (WLOX) — While hurricane hunters play a crucial role in collecting data inside a storm, local National Weather Service offices also play a big role in collecting storm data for forecast ...

The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta is one of New Mexico’s most recognizable events and draws in hundreds of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the ways that federal scientists obtain vital weather data is being curtailed by budget cuts from Elon Musk's Department of ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A behind-the-scenes tool in weather forecasting is quietly being scaled back as the U.S. government is cutting back on weather balloon launches. Several National Weather Service (NWS ...

The mornings wet and windy weather kept the fleet of hot air balloons grounded again Thursday, but pilots showed off their burners for the crowd and looked forward to better flying conditions starting ...

Weather forecasting today runs on rivers of data. But there’s almost no data available from vast stretches of the planet—open ocean, polar regions, and remote sections of the world. That’s a problem ...

A 360-degree camera attached to a weather balloon captured an airliner flying beneath it at an astonishing speed of 500 miles per hour (800 kilometers per hour). It was recorded by Project Dorothy ...