Exercises/Labs

This video is of our fist failed attempt to launch the "balloon", but there was not enough hot air or wind today for it to lift off.

This is our second attempt that still had the same effect. The last one that I did not get on video actually made it after we let it fill up with hot air a little more and made it up pretty high and stayed in the air for 5-10 minutes until it came down on the Chippewa.

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This is a surface image of the Great Lakes. This area is pretty clustered and hard to read because of all the information being thrown at you. There are many different things going on like a stationary front along with the radar showing a bit of precipitation over the lakes and most of Michigan. It is hard to tell other things since a lot is covered up.

This is a surface image with a lot of information going along with it about wind and other patterns. The area of North America focused on is that of the South West. There are winds coming out of the South West at about 5 miles per hour. It is pretty clear with no cloud cover because the circles are not filled. The temperatures a bit cooler which may have to do with the maritime effect of the Pacific Ocean. There also seems to be a bit of spotted rain showers as well.

This is a map of North America with all the labeled air masses. There are either continental or maritime air masses and are differentiated based on where they are latitudinal or in relevance to the body of water they are closest to. The continental is mostly dry while the maritime is associated with more wet air masses.

This is a map of the surface winds currently over North America. It labels the fronts such as cold, warm, and stationary and where they currently are. It also labels where the highest winds are due to the location of the isobars which is over the north part of Nebraska. It also labels the warm and cold Air masses which correlate with where the warm and cold fronts are.