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Answers: Weather balloons and airplanes
Q: Hi, I enjoyed "Rise Up" in the March 2010 AOPA Flight Training magazine. I wonder about the danger of those weather balloons and noted your comments about there being "no danger" as it's floating down under parachute. But really, hasn't there ever been an incident or accident associated with one of these balloons where one of them (either... »
Answers: Storm Winds
Q: Why doesn't an extratropical cyclone continue to rotate around a 360-degree axis, like a hurricane? I've always wondered why a cold front begins to the northwest of the low center and then dies out on the northeast side. Why doesn't it continue to just rotate? How does the Coriolis effect play into all of this? Jeff, Pensacola, Florida A: The answer... »
Ask Jack: Humid Air
Q: Why is humid air less dense than dry air? Matt, LaGrange, Ga. A: At first it might seem strange that humid air is actually less dense than dry air at the same temperature. Most of the time we say things... »
