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NWS restores twice-daily weather balloon launches at 92 sites nationwide

NWS restores twice-daily weather balloon launches at 92 sites nationwide
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Twice a day, every day, National Weather Service offices across the country release a weather balloon. Each one carries a small instrument package called a radiosonde. As it rises more than 100,000 feet, it measures temperature, humidity, air pressure and wind at every level of the atmosphere. Th...

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