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 water | 0.03″ |
![CbImIL9UMAQrdqx](https://apollo.nvu.vsc.edu/ATMOS/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/CbImIL9UMAQrdqx.jpg)
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![LYN](https://apollo.nvu.vsc.edu/ATMOS/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/LYN.png)
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![Same as above, zoomed in to the lowest 3km.](https://apollo.nvu.vsc.edu/ATMOS/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/LYN_Lowest3km.png)
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