[HN Gopher] Real time weather balloon tracking
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       Real time weather balloon tracking
        
       Author : L_226
       Score  : 48 points
       Date   : 2024-03-14 11:18 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (sondehub.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (sondehub.org)
        
       | bloopernova wrote:
       | _noun_ hub.com is associated with pornhub for good or bad. Kind
       | of like calling a train wheel assembly a "bogey" in the UK and
       | trying to remain mature about it.
       | 
       | Does anyone on HN now have much experience with weather balloons?
       | How much preparation do you need to do to launch? I assume you'd
       | have to inform the relevant authorities, has that process become
       | more onerous after the Chinese balloon incident? What is a launch
       | like? How long after launch do you get usable data?
       | 
       | Edited to add: a flagged comment mentioned GitHub. I guess I
       | always think of Git first, and "hub" barely registers. Pornhub
       | somehow is the opposite for me. It may have been intended as an
       | insult, but that comment made me think, thank you random Internet
       | person.
        
         | pfgallagher wrote:
         | What about github?
        
       | dfc wrote:
       | If you are ever going to be near Dulles airport I highly
       | recommend doing the NWS tour. They have a really neat tour and
       | put up with all sorts of questions and at the end of the tour
       | they launch a balloon. I imagine other NWS forecast centers have
       | similar tours.
       | 
       | https://www.weather.gov/lwx/tourrequest
        
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