This year’s peak bloom is predicted to be March 28-31. The festival itself spans from March 20 to April 13. You can peek in via the BloomCam to see how things are progressing. Right now, things are ...

The National Cherry Blossom Festival — and others — are hitting the ground running with a variety of events happening across the D.C. area.

Observations from soundings are important inputs for assessing turbulence that may impact air travel, marine weather, fire ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — With massive job cuts, the National Weather Service is eliminating or reducing vital weather balloon ...

It takes 90 minutes to an hour to fill a weather balloon with helium or hydrogen, get it fitted with a sensor, then ready it for launch making sure the radiosonde doesn’t drag on the ground ...