
The shuttle launch was scrubbed today due to weather. Anvil clouds from storms 30 miles west of Cape Canaveral were blowing over the launch area, creating the risk of triggered lightning if the shuttle passed through these electrically charged clouds. The next launch attempt is 3:26 pm EDT tomorrow (Sunday). The weather outlook is similar - only a 40% chance of acceptable weather, with a repeat of today’s conditions considered likely. I took this photo at the time of the scrub, looking northwest from the Kennedy Space Center press site towards the approaching clouds.
July 1st, 2006 at 5:05:13 pm
Fucking thunderstorms.
I’m currently in Colorado, and after a week of super-duper-perfect weather in Denver, the weather in Leadville, CO (where I spend this weekend) prevented me from summitting a fourteener.
Why isn’t NASA/DARPA/whoever working on a weather control device?
Bah.