From ac58a1c756c5b5c3cc712e4f8388269816d5ddbc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Evan Pratten Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 12:55:38 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] weather balloon post --- content/blog/2017-11-09-weatherballoon.md | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/blog/2017-11-09-weatherballoon.md diff --git a/content/blog/2017-11-09-weatherballoon.md b/content/blog/2017-11-09-weatherballoon.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fad8cba --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2017-11-09-weatherballoon.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +--- +title: "We lost a weather balloon in another country" +description: "..and made the news because of it" +date: 2017-11-09 +tags: news +draft: false +extra: + excerpt: Beal science project succeeds - maybe too much - as weather balloon floats into U.S. +--- + +A news article was written about a project I was involved in. It's even headed by a photo I took! + +![](https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/v1/dynamic_resize/sws_path/suns-prod-images/1298003385469_ORIGINAL.jpg) + +> An appeal is going out to the Keystone state after a London high school class found out weather balloons can get away on you. +> +> Theirs — part of a high-flying experiment they thought would travel about 100 kilometres, 150 km tops — drifted twice as far, crossing the Canada-U.S. border and coming down in a mountain valley in Pennsylvania, 300 kilometres away. + +[*Read the full article here*](https://lfpress.com/2017/11/09/beal-science-project-succeeds--maybe-too-much--as-weather-balloon-floats-into-us) \ No newline at end of file