Harmless weather instrument...

[wooly]

Ran out for a quick hike behind the house this evening and found my first ever weather balloon!

I got a little nervous when I first spotted it. First thing that came to mind when I saw that blaze orange up in the treetops from a distance was there was a hunter hanging there since deer season.

Fortunately it wasn't anything morbid as that.

As much as I was tempted to open it up to see what's inside, I resisted from doing so.

It came with a pre-paid envelope/bag to mail it back in one piece so that's what I'll do.

Released out of Buffalo on 8/13/15.

It took about a 35 mile ride before crash landing where I found it now almost 5 months later.

[Marion]

Cool find

You Can't Beat My Meat!

[Rockspek]

Pretty cool!  I once had a hot air ballon land in my back yard. 10 minutes later another landed next door.

[Paula]

Cool

[turkeyfeathers]

And you aren't per chance on Gilligans Island are you ?    Gilligan screwed that up I thought.       Neat find !

[greg54]

Kind of like finding a note in a bottle...but in a different way...that's pretty cool!

[grampy]

You always find the cool stuff!

[BizCT]

Cool. I probably would have kept it

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Edited February 8, 2016 by Biz-R-OWorld

[philoshop]

That indecisive moment: Do I shoot it, or get a picture of me standing next to it. :-]  

[wooly]

I found a link to the NOAA Radiosonde model that I found.

It doesn't sound like they'll be following up with any further information, but it's pretty cool to learn the impressive journey some of these suckers make! Interesting stuff!

http://www.ua.nws.noaa.gov/factsheet.htm

[turkeyfeathers]

I found a link to the NOAA Radiosonde model that I found.

It doesn't sound like they'll be following up with any further information, but it's pretty cool to learn the impressive journey some of these suckers make! Interesting stuff!

http://www.ua.nws.noaa.gov/factsheet.htm

Thanks for the link. That's pretty cool stuff.

[wooly]

Picked up another radiosonde on yesterdays hike. This one wasn't marked where it was launched from or on what date, and it didn't have a parachute like my last find, but it did have a return envelope so it's heading home again!

I must be in the fly-way for these things or something. Never did hear any information back from the last one I returned, so I guess there really are no perks to finding them other than being able to say you found one.... or two now. The woman at the post office told me in 30 years of being there she had never seen one of these come through the door when I dropped the last one off.

 

Edited January 20, 2017 by wooly

[Paula]

Hey nice ring

 

[wooly]

11 minutes ago, Paula said:

Hey nice ring

 

Your such an ass,lol

[grampy]

Nothing goes unnoticed in your woods with those eagle eyes! Cool find, again!

[Paula]

haha

[Jeremy K]

My buddy found one in Java , same deal ,just mail it back in.

[growalot]

There not a person alive reading your posts that could ever wonder why you are always out and about in the woods...Nice find....

[Merlot]

Nice find....better go back and look for Hoffa...

[fasteddie]

Wooly - You da man ! 

[Arcade Hunter]

Very cool!

[The_Field_Ager]

'harmless weather instrument' They always say that 

[Lawdwaz]

On 1/20/2017 at 8:24 AM, growalot said:

There not a person alive reading your posts that could ever wonder why you are always out and about in the woods...Nice find....

I'd say he is only second to YOU as far as time in the woods...............

[stubborn1VT]

Neat to find two of them.  Some places are like that.  There's a spot on the family farm, most of the way to the top of the hill, where I have found probably 20 or 30 "party balloons" over the years.  They are those foil, helium ones.  They get hung up in a patch of hemlocks there.  Makes me think about wind currents and weather patterns and other stuff I don't understand.

By the way, you've got me wanting to find just ONE decent shed, so I can make one of those rings.  I don't wear rings, but I still want one.  I can't sacrifice antlers off a buck I shot, so now I'll have to try and hunt down a shed.  Oh boy. Mission impossible.