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Learning About Vorticity, Constant Pressure Levels and Wind Barbs, Among Other Weathery Things

| March 22, 2017 @ 5:45 am

The sixth grade science teachers at Pizitz Middle School in Vestavia kicked off their second annual weather balloon launch yesterday with a special training session for 395 Launch Weather Officers.

Today, they will produce their own launch forecasts using a set of meteorological parameters that are tied to factors that could affect the launch and flight.

Last year’s launch was a huge success, the brainchild of Teacher Diane McAliley, attaining an altitude of 106,693, with video and data over the complete flight. The payload was miraculously recovered in a tree in Randolph County in East Alabama.

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