Monthly Archives: July 2007

I am finally posting a link with an in-depth explanation of relative humidity and dewpoint in response to an earlier request. Relative humidity is a highly variable quantity dependent on pressure and temperature. RH can be thought of as a ratio of the mass of water vapor in the atmosphere compared to what that mass [...]

This is quite rare, but one of the weather balloons released by my office (Albuquerque National Weather Service Forecast office) landed back in the Albuquerque metro area hitting a motorist on the northeast side of town. Strong winds aloft usually carry these balloons and radiosondes (instruments) between 20 to 100 miles away. Upper level winds [...]