Did a weather balloon launched from one NWS office land in the yard of another? Not quite

August 2024 · 1 minute read

On the morning of April 28, 2012, the forecast office in Tallahassee, Florida, released a weather balloon that actually landed on a person when it returned to earth in Jefferson County, Florida—the first such instance of a weather balloon striking a person on record. A math whiz at the office determined that the odds of this happening on that day in that county was one in 506,800,000,000,000,000 (506.8 quadrillion).

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