Researchers Launch Weather Balloons In North Bay To Monitor Atmospheric River Storm

CBS Bay Area

February 4, 2025

A group of scientists from Southern California recently came to the Bay Area to send up a series of weather balloons to help them study the atmospheric river event dumping rain on Northern California.

They're with UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes. Adolfo Lopez and Subin Yoon's mission in Bodega Bay is to collect weather data on the impressive atmospheric river storm.

Every three hours, they're blowing up these weather balloons and attaching GPS radiosondes, sending them straight into the storm.

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