Balloons lift off at Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta

During AccuWeather's Southwest forecast, Geoff Cornish and Damien Lodes react to video of balloons lifting into the sky over Albuquerque.

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00:00Now it's time for the West, the Wild West here, where we have some moisture increasing in parts

00:05of the Southwest. That's right. So this is going to be the tropical moisture left over from Priscilla,

00:09Hurricane Priscilla. That's going to be working its way. And I mean, Jeff. Yeah. This is a big

00:14deal, Damian. Those are the ballooners. Those balloons look like they're way too close, but

00:17I'm sure that they are safely being lifted, I guess. I think it's, is it a University of New

00:22Mexico balloon? That's pretty cool. There you go. The control room leaked this out to me. This

00:26would be appearing just about three or four minutes to go. Good. Curious how you would

00:30respond. How do you, what I want to know is how do you sponsor a hot air balloon to get

00:34like your face or name or organization? Yeah, absolutely. You want to get your face on one?

00:39Well, I don't think I can. No, I think that's a good idea. That's in my tight bracket. Let's

00:42see if we can get an AccuWeather balloon out there. That'd be cool. That'd be cool. I think

00:45that it would involve your face and it'd be pretty good. Absolutely. All right. But people

00:50probably start shooting at it, but you know, that's not a good thing to do for a hot air

00:54probably not. It kind of went dark fast, Damien. Yeah. All right. I don't think showers and

00:58storms are going to be a concern. Worst of this will be west of New Mexico into Arizona as we close

01:02out the week. We are dealing with some airport delays into Dallas-Fort Worth. That's due to

01:07staffing, but we have, again, some minor delays in Chicago, but the rain-related delays, major delays

01:11at BNA Nashville. Earlier, just moments ago, there were delays at Miami and weather was attributed to

01:17the cause there. Spotty storms nearby, but it looks like that has lifted.