Ballon d'Alsace

Vosges du Sud · 1,247 m · faces S/SW

Stay on the ground: the wind is too strong.

Forecast updated 1 Nov, 14:05 · Zurich time · valid 2026-11-01

Conditions score out of 100, not a probability.

At 13:00

2,300 m
Thermal top
2,000 m
Cloud base
ENE 38
Launch, km/h
65
Gusts, km/h
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Hour by hour

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At launch · wind, then gusts, km/h
511115210551844978467443703865356041683977368438904284
  • 08:00–16:00Wind too strong at launch.

Sunrise 07:18 · sunset 17:16

Wind and thermals aloft

13:00 · top 2,300 m · base 2,000 m · NE 67 km/h at 2,400 m

Launch 1,247646153434948676560535346757470635745848480736144919490846847top 2,300 m5001,0001,5002,0002,5003,0003,50007091113151719
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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13:00sun 27°ENE 37 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.

More detail

Model agreement, 15 daysECMWF ensemble meteogram on charts.ecmwf.int (opens in a new tab)

Updated 37 min ago

Forecast from Open-Meteo, best-match blend of models. Forecast only. You still judge the air on launch.

Days 4–7: lower confidence outlook