Adirondack Balloon Flights Blog

Weather looks to be unsettled through Thursday with a series of progressively stronger cold fronts, which should lead to good flying weather later in the week for at least the first half of the coming weekend, possibly into early Sunday. For those of you looking forward to the weekend’s Adirondack Hot Air Balloon Festival, your best viewing of the hot air balloons will be on Friday PM and probably both flights on Saturday. Sunday PM right now looks doubtful, with the morning flight a maybe. The Thursday PM flight from Crandall Park looks doubtful because of a frontal passage on Thursday and windy conditions.

Got skunked this weekend on flights  that I was available to fly passengers. The only real flight opportunity this weekend was on the Saturday evening flight, which I was not available to do with son Grant in-town from CO. We had dinner at Bistro Tulluluh’s planned for a family outing. If you have not had the opportunity to eat there, do! Anyway back to the weather, Monday is a good flying day, except for this morning’s fog, and hopefully tomorrow AM will be good for our planned ride. Weather goes down hill for Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday. After that, we look to potentially have our longest stretch of dry weather since mid May. Let’s hope that we finally get this dry stretch because the flight area is very wet. The ability of the chase vehicle and crew to drive into fields to retrieve the balloon and passengers is not good at this time without some significant drying time out in the flight  country.

High pressure moves into the area today for the early part of the week, to be followed by some unsettled weather.  The best flying weather for going on a hot air balloon ride looks to be tonight, Sunday PM and probably Monday AM, both flights on Tuesday and the early Wednesday AM balloon ride. Other than tonight, we have a number of spaces available for our hot air balloon rides this week. So call to make your reservation while we have this nice stretch of weather. The best chance for rain during the week looks to be late Wednesday into the overnight. Check back for weather updates as they come in.

Flying weather looks good for our Sunday afternoon ride and also Monday morning. Rain returns for Monday afternoon and Tuesday-naturally, what’s a day with out rain-and dry again by Wednesday/Thursday. We have plenty of space available for reservations so give us a call while the weather is good for enjoying one of our spectacular hot air balloon rides in the Adirondacks, Lake George, Saratoga Springs region of upstate New York.