{
  "id": 15594148,
  "title": "A more accurate weather forecast could start with these high-flying drones",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/19/a-more-accurate-weather-forecast-could-start-with-these-high-flying",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-19T10:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Fast Company",
    "slug": "fast-company",
    "url": "https://www.fastcompany.com/91622564/meteomatics-strato-weather-drone"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}