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Did you know that helium balloons are not just for birthdays? They are used to tell us about the weather too. Without weights attached to their ribbons, helium balloons will continue to rise and rise. If indoors, this means they float to the ceiling; if outside, it means up and up into the sky!

Up, up and up – in fact, so high that they pass birds and aeroplanes, through the clouds and about halfway to the edge of space! Weather balloons are very big, even on the ground, and get bigger as they rise! Eventually, they burst and anything that they were lifting falls back down to Earth. All the weather recording equipment does too, and therefore it has to be attached to a parachute for its downward journey!

On good days, you can feel like a buoyant balloon. The day is going to be great; you can’t wait to get going, this is your moment, you have been waiting weeks for this. If you don’t hold yourself back, you are going to keep rising and rising.