The forecast is pretty much on track with a few scattered showers possible Wednesday preceding, accompanying and following a cool front tomorrow. Guidance is a little cooler for late in the week so look for highs in the 60s Thursday and Friday with morning lows in the mid-upper 40s. I’m still looking at our next storm event to arrive by next Monday evening. This system may induce some shower activity with a warm front on Sunday and should give us a healthy round of storms Monday night. It’s too early to tell whether there will be severe weather, but it is a possibility. This system should be progressive in nature so hopefully the rains won’t be too heavy but 1-2 inches would be a good guess right now. It’s still looking quite wet and stormy the following weekend.Â
Good news for the astronomy community as the Space Shuttle will go on a service mission to the Hubble Telescope sometime in 2008. In addition to the continued research that will be enabled by this mission, there should be an extra bonus for 
 Acadiana. The trajectory of this service mission should give us an opportunity to see the Shuttle re-entering the atmosphere. The return will have to be in the evening, night time or early morning hours for us to see the plasma trail…so we’ll need a little luck as well. NASA’s policy has been against night time re-entries so I’d be willing to bet on a morning arrival…So in addition to more beautiful Hubble images, we’ll have something to look forward to!