Archive for June, 2010
Saturday, June 19th, 2010
Since the weather won’t cooperate for flying this afternoon, wifey and I decided to treat ourselves to a late lunch at our favorite place down in Saratoga – Maestro’s, Saratoga Springs is a neat, busy, small city to visit for shopping, dining, and just hanging out at an outdoor cafe to watch the people. It’s about a 1/2 hour drive south of Lake George via I-87. But, today is about food and Maestro’s, I’ll blog later about doings down in Saratoga.
 Maestro's is right next to the Adelphi, which is the last of the old Victorian Hotels that used to line Broadway  Eat out or eat in  We ate in, the out was full  wifey had a grilled duck confit samich & I had a soft shell crab po'boy-yummy!!  A great place for lunch or dinner
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Saturday, June 19th, 2010
Had some local folks up this morning for a flight. Beautiful summer weather for flying. It looks like this is it for this weekend, as the winds pick-up for the afternoon, a trough and a front through overnight into early Sunday morning, with a secondary front Sunday afternoon. Flying weather looks to improve on Monday just-in-time for our AM and PM flights that we have scheduled.
 Mike and Joan Dashnaw  Jeanne Lemery
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
It was a great evening for going on a hot air balloon ride. Steve and Rebecca joined us for a Private Flight in our Peacock VIII hot air balloon. Steve and Rebecca were visiting the area for some R&R before Steve heads off to Iraq for a year.
 Rebecca and Steve help with the inflation of the balloon  It was a beautiful late afternoon for flying
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Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
This is the current forecast for this week. High pressure from the James Bay region will be briefly over the area today before slipping offshore tonight. Another disturbance from the Eastern Great Lakes region will bring more rain on Wednesday, into early Thursday, followed by high pressure for the end of the week. The end of week weather looks summery with highs reaching up into the 80′s before a cold front passes overnight on Saturday. A chance of showers and storms returns for late Saturday and Sunday, with high pressure returning for early next week.
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Saturday, June 12th, 2010
Friday evening was an interesting evening to fly, with an unusual east wind down low and near calm winds above 1,000 AGL, for having high pressure over head. It was very clear with very low humidity. We were able to hang out up at altitude to enjoy the distant views and also enjoy an extended low level contour flight over some wet lands for wildlife viewing. We could see the Catskills below Albany up at altitude-60 miles or so to the South, Lake George and the High Peaks of the Adirondacks to the North and the Green Mountains off to the East.
 Mike and Kelly  Valerie
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Thursday, June 10th, 2010
An upper level disturbance will pass across the region today. Weak high pressure will crest over the region for Friday. Friday night a warm front will push into New York. It will linger across New York and New England for the weekend, resulting in warm and humid weather with bouts of showers and thunderstorms. A cold front will push slowly south through the region on Sunday night into Monday. In it’s wake, high pressure will build into the Northeast for mid week. What this all boils down to, the flying weather will be good for our Friday afternoon flight, not good for the weekend as well as probably Monday before good flying weather returns Tuesday/Wednesday of next week.
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Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
A disturbance moving in from the west has spread rain into the region ahead of a warm front, which will be followed by a cold front this evening as a second low forms off the New Jersey Coast. Rain will linger into Thursday as an upper level disturbance moves across the region. High pressure will build-in to give us fair weather on Friday with more unsettled weather for the weekend, possibly starting during the overnight on Friday.
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Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
Rain for today and Thursday, with improved weather for flying on Friday and hopefully again Saturday. The weather forecast looks to go downhill for Sunday and Monday before a large high moves east for mid next week.
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Sunday, June 6th, 2010
After the weekend’s wet weather, the flying weather is forecast to improve for the early part of the week, with some rain again around the mid part of the week and then the weather should improve towards the end of the week. We have space available on our flights this week. Call 518-793-6342 or email info@adirondackballoonflights.com for reservations. Make sure you check back later in the week for weather updates, it always changes.
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