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Re:Bird with GPS flies into typhoon, carried 700 miles, reac... by marcosdumay on Thursday October 26, 2023 @07:22PM (#38032914)
The thing about storms is that the wind changes abruptly all the time. Maybe the bird knows how to navigate it, but it's not a safe environment for balloons like people used as example downthread.
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Re:Bird with GPS flies into typhoon, carried 700 miles, reac... by the_third_wave on Friday October 27, 2023 @05:50PM (#38044473)
Where the bird was flying the wind did not change abruptly all the time, that only happens in the turbulent lower atmosphere. Higher up the wind is more constant, in the case of a hurricane/typhoon in a constant vortex. The bird was caught in something resembling a local jet stream, circling around the storm's centre while being carried along.
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