Whither the weather balloons? U.S. changes leave Canada with less notice of storms, experts say
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Whither the weather balloons? U.S. changes leave Canada with less notice of storms, experts say
TOM CARDOSO
PUBLISHED 1 HOUR AGO
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Student researchers release a weather balloon with a radiosonde attached in Tucumcari, N.M., last summer.
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Twice a day, a delicate dance takes place in the Earth’s stratosphere: At noon and midnight Greenwich Mean Time, around 1,000 sensor-laden weather balloons slic…
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