I just pointed out on the air this morning that there's a little disturbance right now between Hispanolia and Puerto Rico (just to the north) that will affect our weather next week. As high pressure breaks down over the southeast and slides east, the flow will turn more southerly and southeasterly, allowing this disturbance to push toward the Florida Straits. Right now, it looks like much of this moisture will just miss our side of the state and end up on the east coast or out into the Atlantic.. if it noses a little farther west, though, we'll end up with even higher rain chances early in the week!
In the meantime, some new model runs are coming in and they continue to point to the possibility of a shower along the Gulf breeze tomorrow. I'm still leaving that chance of rain out of the forecast, but plan on some more clouds tomorrow afternoon -- so enjoy the beach earlier in the day!
By the way.. launch forecast for Atlantis (2:20 pm today) looks good. Mostly clear with an east breeze at 10. Only concern is some lower clouds coming in off of the Atlantic but, right now, looks like those clouds should be west of the launch site by the time we hit the scheduled launch time.
Brian
