Arctic Air Mass Weather Balloon Launch

We launched a weather balloon at 7pm EST (00Z) Saturday evening to sample the arctic airmass that was over the northeast U.S. Here’s some quick facts about the sounding:

Surface temperature-16°F
Lowest temperature in sounding-37.2°F at 864 hPa
850 hPa temperature-33.5C (-28.2°F)
Tropopause height (estimated)585 hPa (3.8km, 2.38 miles)
Precipitable water0.03″
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Same as above, zoomed in to the lowest 6km
Same as above, zoomed in to the lowest 3km.
Same as above, zoomed in to the lowest 3km.
Surface analysis at the time of the arctic balloon launch