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A critical weather tool is disappearing. How fewer weather balloons could put you more at risk during a storm.
A critical weather tool is disappearing as some National Weather Service officers suspend balloon launches. Monday on WRAL at 6 p.m., WRAL's team of meteorologists shares how this missing data could ...
Ask the Meteorologist: Will the reduction of weather balloon launches affect the forecast?
Weather balloons are a weather tool that has been used by the National Weather Service since the 1930s. Click here for more ...
The Aspen Times9d
Will the reduction of weather balloon launches at the National Weather Service’s Grand Junction location impact forecasting in Colorado?
In late March, the National Weather Service announced it would be temporarily reducing the number of weather balloon launches ...
MSNBC25d
Trump’s cuts to National Weather Service gut weather balloon launches
President Donald Trump's cuts to the National Weather Service mean that weather balloon launches, a key tool used for forecasting, are being reduced in multiple areas, Rachel Maddow explains.March ...