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MER
Opportunity/Delta Launch Weather Forecast
Issued:
July 7, 2003
Valid: Monday, July 7, 2003
Sunrise:
6:32 a.m. Sunset: 8:23
p.m.
Moonrise: 2:08
p.m.
(All times are Eastern Daylight Time) |
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| Synopsis |
| No
changes to forecast reasoning. Most sea breeze-induced thunderstorm
activity will be confined to interior and western sections of
Florida by the afternoon and evening. Main concern for the launch
windows will be from thunderstorm anvil clouds that are associated
with thunderstorms located well to the NW-NE, and any showers
and thunderstorms that may develop off shore SE of the area during
the evening.
At launch time on Monday:
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| Clouds |
Scattered
2/8, 3,000
- 6,000
feet
Scattered 2/8, 8,000
- 10,000
feet
Scattered 3/8, 25,000
- 27,000
feet
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| Winds |
| Wind speed at Launch Pad/direction: |
9
- 14
mph/
SSE |
| Visibility |
| Visibility: |
7 miles |
| Temperature |
| Temperature: |
78º F - 80º
F |
| Dew point: |
n/a |
| Humidity |
| Relative Humidity: |
80% |
| Weather
Concerns |
| Partly cloudy |
| Probability of weather prohibiting
launch |
20% |
| 24-hour delay: |
20% |
| 48-hour delay: |
30% |
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Launch
forecast by USAF 45th Weather Squadron, Cape Canaveral Air Force
Station
SLF Wind Forecast by National Weather Service Space Flight Meteorology
Group, JSC
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July
Launch & Landing Weather Forecast Calendar
2003
Year At A Glance | Status
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Landing Facility
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