LINCOLN — An Omaha area National Weather Service office will be redeploying weather balloons next week after the Trump administration decided to fund more staff. U.S. Rep. Mike Flood ...

NEWSWATCH SEVEN AT SIX. WEATHER BALLOONS WILL LAUNCH BACK UP AGAIN FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN VALLEY. THANKS FOR JONING US. I’M QUANECIA FRASER, OMAHA’S NEWS LEADER.

VALLEY, Neb. (WOWT) - The Omaha area has already seen its fair share of severe weather this year. Storms dropping hail, pouring down rain, and at times, spinning up tornadoes. All this has been ...

The weather station is adding two new forecasters to the team and is already sending weather balloons back up in the sky. Rep. Mike Flood was the one who delivered the good news Friday afternoon.

Since March 20, the NWS Omaha/Valley office has ceased daily weather balloon launches. Now, Congressman Mike Flood said that suspension is being lifted. 'This is public safety': Congressman Mike ...

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The NWS was notably forced to cut back on its volume of weather balloon launches amid staff cuts—a practice federal meteorologists say harmed their forecasts during a recent spate of severe ...

WMTW Portland ME New tech fills forecast gap as weather balloon launches drop due to staff cuts Posted: April 23, 2025 | Last updated: April 23, 2025 Recent cuts made to NOAA and NWS are impacting ...

As forecast offices grapple with the changes, a memo obtained by The Washington Post also details ways they should cut back on certain services, including weather balloon launches. The looming ...

Weather balloons are typically launched twice a day from 100 stations across the country. They fly up to 100,000 feet high, gathering critical data about the upper atmosphere used in weather ...