Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloons May Be Grounded Due To Dangerously High Winds
The 2018 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons are at risk of being grounded due to dangerously high winds. The NYPD will be monitoring the wind speed to determine if they need to pull the plug on the large balloons.
The Daily Mail says that the NYPD will be using seven anemometers measuring wind speed all throughout the parade route to alert officials when there are gusts of 23 mph, at which time they will have to lower the large balloons. At 34 mph, the cartoon balloons will be grounded.
The New York City forecast currently calls for 30 mph winds and temperatures in the low to mid-20s.
NYPD Chief of Patrol Rodney Harrison shared the safety plans in a press conference on Wednesday.
“If we have to call an audible on the day of and make an adjustment, we’ll do so. Thirty-four mile per hour wind gusts is when we say, ‘OK, we gotta bring it all the way down to the ground.”’
