[Vk5-wx-sonde] Sonde recovered N3910245

[Mark Jessop]

>From my experience the GFS weather model is pretty terrible below a few km
altitude in the Adelaide region.
According to a friend who runs his own weather prediction service (
https://skysight.io/) it's because neither the GFS model (or the BOM's
internal model for that matter) take into account the effect of sea-breezes.

73
Mark

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 1:02 AM, Lachlan Stewart via Vk5-wx-sonde <
vk5-wx-sonde at vk5fo.com> wrote:

> Our first night time sonde recovery was a success. After seeing the
> N3910245 do some rather interesting path deviations and falling well short
> of the predicted fall zone, we decided it would be a good chance for
> recovery.
> Set of at 23:00 with the radio silent until we arrived into Wellington to
> the great sound of a chirping sonde! GPS was still locked so we were able
> to walk right up to it in the dark, almost 1km from the last reported
> position.
> Night time chasing was great fun!
>
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