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Watch High Winds Turn a Weather Balloon into a Speeding Projectile

Dennis Mersereau · 04/26/14 10:48PM

This impressive video shows a meteorologist in Albuquerque, New Mexico getting knocked around by 50-60 MPH wind gusts as he released a weather balloon on Saturday evening. Once he let go of the balloon, it rocketed away while narrowly missing an observation tower and the NWS office itself.