2024-03-25, 09:26 PM
I've only found one postcard balloon, unfortunately too faded to read the address, but evidently sent out by some school kids.
I've never picked up a weather balloon but I did release a few as the designated gofer for the NOAA employee assigned to a fire I was working on. They were some sort of latex, not mylar, and not very big. Payload was just a reflector so they could track its direction with a theodolite as it went up. I doubt they got very far as downwind was the pyrocumulus with a big anvil on top. Needless to say this is a story from many years ago. I am sure they have much more high tech gear to track wind speed and direction now.
I've never picked up a weather balloon but I did release a few as the designated gofer for the NOAA employee assigned to a fire I was working on. They were some sort of latex, not mylar, and not very big. Payload was just a reflector so they could track its direction with a theodolite as it went up. I doubt they got very far as downwind was the pyrocumulus with a big anvil on top. Needless to say this is a story from many years ago. I am sure they have much more high tech gear to track wind speed and direction now.