Ballon d'Alsace
Stay on the ground: the wind is too strong.
Forecast updated 1 Nov, 14:05 · Zurich time · valid 2026-11-02
Conditions score out of 100, not a probability.
At 14:00
2,050 m
Thermal top
2,100 m
Cloud base
ENE 30
Launch, km/h
50
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 07:20 · sunset 17:14
Wind and thermals aloft
14:00 · top 2,050 m · base 2,100 m · ENE 33 km/h at 2,000 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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14:00sun 23°ENE 28 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