14 October 2017

balloon launch

Cool dude photographer Stephen Allinger is behind the lens in capturing a super neat opportunity to launch a weather balloon.
Weather people will have to confirm this, but I believe this is the impetus behind the launches: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/weather-balloon/integrated-global-radiosonde-archive

It was a beautiful day to fill a giant balloon with helium and release it into the atmosphere.

Numbers:
The balloon is 600 grams.
My launch reached a termination pressure of 9.6 hectopascals.





Seattle Crew - I miss you!






That was so cool!

Still cool!

pressure ridge hike

Pressure ridges are super neat to see up close.









04 October 2017

weather

Sometimes we get weather down here.




Not visible: so many more layers underneath.