Adirondack Balloon Flights Blog

Currently, the best flying weather for the early part of the week will be today, the 19th and at least the morning of the 20th. After that weather will be difficult for most of the week, hopefully improving toware the coming weekend. Check back for weather updates for the weeks flying weather. We have plenty of space available on most flight for this week, so pick a nice day and call for your reservation.

The best chance for rain showers will be later this afternoon, Friday the 17th, through the overnight into early Saturday morning. Bulk of rain showers should lift north and east by the afternoon. An upper level disturbance over the Great Lakes/western Ontario will be building into the area behind the departing showers which will bring a chance of rain and/or thunder most afternoons through mid week due to unstable conditions aloft w/the upper level system – sound familiar? Upper level system looks to break down later in the week. With this kind of system, the best chance of getting a flight in is usually in the morning. There may also be opportunities in the afternoon depending on the cycle of waves of energy that rotates around these upper level low pressure systems. We have space available on most flights through the outlook period, so pick your day and call for a reservation.

Today, Wednesday is a beautiful day. Thursday rain is forecast off and on through the overnight. Friday may start dry with rain showers possible in the afternoon. Then the weekend! Saturday is currently being advertised as setting up to be a very wet day-like we haven’t seen this before on our weekends this summer? Sunday may be dry-somewhat w/what’s described as unsettled weather through Tuesday – it’s another cut off low up over the Great Lakes through the period. It’s like the Bill Murray movie Ground Hog Day, you wake up to the same thing over and over….