The Incredible Logistics Behind Weather Forecasting | Wendover Productions
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The Incredible Logistics Behind Weather Forecasting | Wendover Productions

B2Upper-intermediateNovember 13, 202629 min
  • Documentary
  • Science

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It's 4.55 am on a March day at the National Weather Service's Twin Cities Forecast Facility when the morning stillness is broken by the rattle of a garage door opening. As they do every single morning of every single day, a meteorologist working the station's public service desk is launching a helium and hydrogen-filled latex balloon connected

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to an expendable radio scone by 80 feet of string. At the very same time, meteorologists from the other 91 NWS radio scones stations across the US, along with hundreds from around the globe, are launching their own upper-air atmospheric soundings.

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In the next two hours, these balloons will climb up to 100,000 feet, or 300,000 meters into the atmosphere, drifting as far as 200 miles or 320 kilometers from their launch point while their payload, about the weight of a grapefruit, relays temperature, air pressure, and humidity data back to the station.

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