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Weather balloon from Baldonnel?

  • 26-02-2013 12:13am
    #1
    Surveyor11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,036 ✭✭✭


    I work beside Baldonnel (about a half mile away from 23/05), so having a passing interest in aviation, I would have a gawk at goings on there. Last week (Thursday I think) I saw what I first thought what looked like stray kids balloon floating by, maybe a few hundred yards from my viewpoint. Looking again, it looked like a weather balloon being released - seeing it from my view point, and looking how it rose compared to trees, buildings etc in the foreground it looked a lot bigger, with an object suspended underneath. Any ideas?


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  • #2
    boboldpilot
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    Well there's a Met Eireann station there. Not sure if there's a still a full time meteorologist but there used to be. So not entirely surprising. In all my years working in the vicinity. I never saw a weather balloon launch.


  • #3
    FWVT
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    Baldonnel is fully manned 24/7 but I've never heard of a balloon being released by anywhere other than Valentia (and Castor Bay in the North).


  • #4
    LeftBase
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    Bet they activated the R15, R16, MOA4 AND MOA5 for it too! :rolleyes:


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