How do weather services get sky conditions above the surface?

Rocky Stevens wrote:
On Jul 23, 10:05 am, "Steven P. McNicoll"
wrote:
wrote:
On Jul 23, 9:37 am, Mxsmanic wrote:
It's easy enough to establish measurement stations on the surface to
measure wind, temperature, visibility, etc., but what is the normal
way for meteorologists to measure these things aloft? Do they depend
on PIREPs, or expendable/recoverable probes and balloons, or
satellites, or what?
This is one of your poorest troll attempts, Anthony, you are a
disappointment. Please try to do better.
Do you folks that continue to respond to Mxsmanic, Bertie, Maxwell, and the
other trolls realize that if you had simply ignored them this would still be
a useful forum?

It would also be a useful forum if people actually answered the
questions posed, regardless of *who* is asking it. The OP's question
is perefectly valid, and x number of years from now when somebody
Google's for the answer and gets this thread, all they will see for an
answer are insults. There is nothing more frustrating than
Googling for an anwer to something only to find the response was "why
don't you Google for it". If you have the time to post such a
response, you have the time to answer the question.


You must be new here. Somebody will answer Anthony's question and then
he will tell them they are wrong and say he has studied the issue in
depth and that just because the person that answered the question is a
pilot does not mean that they know anything about weather or how the
information is collected.

And to top it all off the fact that I have posted the above in no way
lowers the chances of Anthony doing exactly what I've said he would do.