WET! WET! WET!
Due to a blocking cut-off low pressure from the jet stream just south of the UK, it had rained heavily non-stop for two days. Every cloud has a silver lining and the silver lining in this case was the wind was blowing from east to west, the opposite of the usual prevailing wind. This meant radio sondes from Hertsmoncaux were heading my way.
I watched this one online and the track was all over the place for a lot of its journey. At one point it was going to land near Bordon and later near Basingstoke. With just a few km of height to go it looked like it was going to land near Lasham airfield. With about 20 minutes to land, we set off for Lasham.
Once near to Lasham, my tracker picked up the signal and gave the final position just south of the airfield. We drove up to the location to see a familiar car travelling in the other direction. It was the same radio sonde hunter we had met before tracking radio sonde V1650483. He had already located the radio sonde parachute in a field next to the road. The tether ran across the field, over some cables next to the road, then into a field on the other side of the road. Although he had located the radio sonde, he said I should recover this one. He was dressed in trousers and training shoes. I was dressed in Wellington boots and waterproofs. Me walking across two very wet and muddy fields made a lot of sense.
The track of this radio sonde is recoded on radiosondy.info.