The National Weather Service has had to scale down weather balloon launches at several offices in the United States.

National Weather Service offices across the country are suspending or reducing weather balloon flights due to low staffing.

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

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

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

NBC reports that at least 10 launch sites in the continental U.S.— including some in South Dakota— have suspended or limited ...

Weather balloons provide information that meteorologists and computer models use to forecast the weather and figure out how dangerous it can get.

The National Weather Service (NWS ... the NWS is reducing its weather balloon launches down to one flight per day from multiple other sites, including Aberdeen, S.D., Grand Junction, Colo., ...