The entire unit weighs a mere 250 grams and is lifted into the air by a weather balloon. "My device consists of a standard radiosonde inside a wing-shaped box," he says. "It's small and light ...

Meteorologists have long known that getting data about the upper atmosphere is critical to accurate forecasts ... package of weather instruments and a radio transmitter, the radiosonde was ...

Within 25 minutes, the weather balloon released Tuesday afternoon from Sleeping Giant School reached 30,000 feet, the common ...