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Media Stars Have Been Out at Balloon Fiesta

Meteorologist Jen Carfagno of the Weather Channel explains Albuquerque’s Weather from the Balloon Fiesta for her national audience earlier this week.

Jen Carfagno of the Weather channel broadcasts from Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta

She explained the “Albuquerque Box” to her viewers on a day the winds worked perfectly: balloons moving South to North and back again across different elevations in the sky.

Try our game to see how the box works to make Albuquerque the ballooning capital of the world.

 

Follow her on Twitter @JenCarfagno  at: http://twitter.com/JenCarfagno

And watch her at http://www.weather.com/tv/personalities/Jennifer-Carfagno.html

Albuquerque native Neil Patrick Harris was tweeting from the field earlier this week. Harris, who currently plays Barney Stinson on CBS’s sitcom, “How I Met Your Mother,” went to La Cueva high school.

Has anyone spotted that other famous La Cueva grad Freddie Prinze, Jr.  or any of our New Mexico born stars at the event?

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