Will windy, wet environmental situations scrub NASA’s PACE environmental-science spacecraft launch try early Tuesday morning from Cape Canaveral House Pressure Station?
Maintain a eager eye on the climate forecast.
NASA crews are focusing on 1:33 a.m. EST Tuesday to launch the PACE observatory — which stands for Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem — atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Advanced 40.
However the Nationwide Climate Service’s soggy forecast requires a 90% probability of showers Sunday on the Cape. These precipitation odds solely lower to 50% Monday and Monday evening.
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And the Monday evening forecast requires a low round 55 and north-northwest wind of 15 to 25 mph — punctuated by gusts as much as 35 mph.
“Excessive rain probabilities with remoted thunderstorms will happen Sunday and once more Monday. The first menace might be occasional cloud to floor strikes, gusty winds and regionally heavy rain. Small hail might be doable Monday on account of very chilly temperatures aloft,” a NWS hazardous climate outlook mentioned.
“As low strain pulls east of the realm Monday evening and Tuesday, robust north winds will produce windy situations alongside the coast and doable Gale situations over the native Atlantic waters,” the outlook mentioned.
FLORIDA TODAY House Staff stay protection of NASA’s PACE launch will begin about 90 minutes earlier than liftoff. Go to floridatoday.com/area.
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Rick Neale is a House Reporter at FLORIDA TODAY. Contact Neale at 321-242-3638 or rneale@floridatoday.com. Twitter/X: @RickNeale1
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