YUBA COUNTY – While most people were trying to stay out of the rain on Thursday, a group of researchers was out in the thick of it launching weather balloons to better understand atmospheric rivers.

For four hours or so, the weather around Seabrook was news heard, if not around the world, at least as far as Australia and Europe. You had to listen — hard, with special software on your radio ...

A middle school STEM club in Seabrook launched four high-altitude weather balloons with student-built equipment. The balloons, intended to stay aloft for two days, were brought down by bad weather ...