weather balloon lands on motorist vehicle

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 were very weak this particular day and it just so happened that the instrument was carried back over the city….and no I wasn’t the one who released this one. Our office posted a write-up of the event at this link .

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