Recon Weather

Soundings Every sounding our balloons have flown is in the app now, under Our soundings on the Mission tab, grouped by drop. Each one opens the same analysis a model point sounding gets: CAPE, CIN, the parcel levels, storm-relative helicity and shear, using SPC's own sharptab maths rather than an approximation of it. A package flown without a thermistor is not a failed flight. Those open their hodograph and wind analysis instead, because how much the wind turns is most of what a chase day asks a sounding for. Winds are binned by height before they reach the hodograph and the numbers, so the trace shows the turning rather than the swing of the package under the balloon. Balloons/sondes move in the archive radar loop now. Scrub into the archive and a sonde climbs through the storm it was launched into, arriving at launch and leaving at loss of signal. Mission log Posts render with the spacing and the headings they were written with. Tap any picture to open it full screen, where a pressure chart is readable instead of an inch tall.