At least 11 National Weather Service offices have seen their twice-daily balloon launches to collect weather data suspended ...

Some weather balloon launches have been suspended because of the Trump administration’s cuts to the National Weather Service.

Up until one month ago, the twice-daily launches were happening at 92 National Weather Service offices across the United ...

Billionaire Elon Musk's DOGE cuts for the Trump administration have reduced weather balloon launches, diminishing the ability ...

in Gray, Maine, and others are reducing weather balloon launches. Data from the twice daily launches across the nation are fed into weather models that are used for forecasts. The absence of this ...

Staffing shortages at nearly a dozen National Weather Service offices will mean fewer weather balloon launches.

With massive job cuts, the National Weather Service is reducing vital weather balloon launches in eight northern locations ...

On March 7, the weather service announced it would temporarily suspend some of the balloon launches in Albany, New York, and Gray, Maine, because of a lack of weather forecast office staffing.