Adirondack Balloon Flights Blog

Monday morning was fine flying weather, the best that we experienced over the Labor Day holiday weekend. We flew a couple from Salem OH who was touring the NE and a couple from the Albany area.

Barbara & Bob, Elania & Brendon

The flying weather forecast for this week doesn’t look the best. There may be opportunities between systems here and there to fly, but it looks like late Friday into early Sunday of the coming weekend will bring the best conditions for hot air balloon flights.

We flew a couple from Edmonton Alberta on Wednesday morning. We definitely have our HHH flying conditions back that we had in July. Dave and Mallory are on an extensive driving tour of the northeast that started in Toronto.

Dave and Mallory

The flying weather should be ok for Friday morning, before Hurricane Earl’s weather starts to affect our flying conditions. Saturday looks out for flying as well as most, if not all of Sunday. The flying weather should be good for Monday into Wednesday of the new week.

We had a very busy weekend with the great flying weather over the weekend. Taking a short  R&R break until Tuesday, when we will be flying again as the good flying conditions look to continue through at least Wednesday or Thursday. Currently, the early look at the coming Labor Day holiday weekend looks to be more fall like with some flying opportunities after a frontal passage sometime either late Thursday or on Friday. Depending on how close and when tropical system Earl moves up the east coast and out to sea, will have a factor on our flying conditions for late in the week and into the early part of the holiday weekend.

On Friday morning's flight is Sharon, Donny, Dawn & Nancy

We passed on flying Friday PM due to lack of wind that would have made for a boring ride for our passengers.

On Saturday morning we flew Dana, Matthew, Taylor, & Max plus Brigette & Mindi

On Saturday evening we flew a private group with a request for no pictures to be posted for public view. We are here serve our customers and honor their wishes.

On Sunday morning, we flew Corey, Michele, Tamara & Nathan.

We took a break on Sunday evening and Monday from flying after the weekend’s busy flying schedule to get ready for our week going into the Labor Day holiday weekend, summer’s last hurrah.

Well, it wasn’t the best weekend, or week, for flying. While we did manage a couple of flights during the week, we only flew on Saturday morning over the weekend. We canceled the Saturday afternoon flight when we met the passengers at the pick-up because of the weather conditions, which were unfortunately in a deterioration mode with heavy rain on the way, which is what we are now experiencing. According to the public forecast, the weather will not start to improve until Tuesday, which if we get the amount of rain they are forecasting, 2-5 inches in the flight area, we may not resume our flights until Wednesday or Thursday to give the flight area time to dry out. But, at least the majority of the week looks to be dry after Monday, except for a frontal passage overnight on Wednesday.

Our Saturday AM passengers from Virginia Beach VA, Bill, Ian and Virginia.

On Wednesday morning, we flew a group of friends from Potsdam NY and Meriden CT.

Kim, Ed and Terry

On Thursday morning, I had a couple come all the way from Ballerup Demnark to fly with us, and during the flight, Kenneth proposed to Heidi.

The Proposal!

The Acceptance. Congratulations!!

The balloon ride flying weather is looking good for Friday and Saturday, and most likely early on Sunday. After that, rain will be coming in sometime late on Sunday into Monday. The flying weather should improve on Tuesday.

On Friday evening, we flew a couple from Elkton, MD

Connie & Jack

On Saturday morning, we flew a couple from Zionsville, PA

Will and Ann

On Saturday evening, we flew 3 couples from the Albany area in our big Peacock VII hot air balloon.

Ray & Pam, Bruce & Linda, Epifanio & Beth Anne

The balloon flying weather for the week is coming into focus. The weather looks good for Tuesday and Wednesday, and probably early Thursday and Friday, into early Saturday. After that, our weather looks unsettled for the balance of the weekend into early next week. I am hopeful that the unsettled weather will hold off until later in the weekend. Check back later as we update the flying weather closer to the coming weekend.