Ballon d'Alsace
Stay on the ground: the wind is too strong.
Forecast updated 1 Nov, 11:05 · Zurich time · valid 2026-11-01
Conditions score out of 100, not a probability.
At 11:00
2,150 m
Thermal top
1,750 m
Cloud base
ENE 48
Launch, km/h
75
Gusts, km/h
Hour by hour
No clean windowAt launch · wind, then gusts, km/h
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- 08:00–16:00Wind too strong at launch.
Sunrise 07:18 · sunset 17:16
Wind and thermals aloft
11:00 · top 2,150 m · base 1,750 m · ENE 66 km/h at 2,200 m
Thermals, deeper yellow the higher they goCumulus on the base, veils higher upWind km/h, bold from 25Launch height
Terrain
The ground around the launch
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11:00sun 25°ENE 46 km/h at launch
Geometry from a ~25 m elevation model plus the forecast: rules of thumb, not a flow simulation. Elevation: EU-DEM, produced using Copernicus data and information funded by the European Union, via Terrain Tiles on AWS.
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Days 4–7: lower confidence outlook