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A more accurate weather forecast could start with these high-flying drones

For nearly a century, reading the upper sky has meant tying a box of sensors to a balloon, letting go, and kissing the hardware goodbye. And they only go up at fixed times. If a storm starts brewing between launches, nobody’s up there to see it. Meteomatics , a Swiss weather technology company, thinks we can get better weather data. It recently introduced Strato, a multicopter drone made to study…

A more accurate weather forecast could start with these high-flying drones

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