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Private Companies Are Now Gathering Weather Data for NOAA

Wired · Meg Wilcox · last updated

THIS STORY ORIGINALLY appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

When staffing shortages caused the National Weather Service (NWS) to suspend weather balloon launches at its Kotzebue, Alaska, station earlier this year, a startup deploying next-generation weather balloons, WindBorne Systems, stepped up to fill the void.