Hopefully the sky cover will cooperate this evening as a rare flyover opportunity may be visible tonight as the Space Shuttle Endeavour, the International Space Station and the Russian supply ship are flying over Acadiana at about 915pthis Tuesday evening . The shuttle should be visible first then the space station (about 150 miles behind but they’ll appear close to one another) followed by the supply ship. Look toward the west-northwestern sky and don’t be late…the spacecrafts will only be visible for about 2 and a half minutes. Keep your fingers crossed on the sky cover!
Meanwhile back on Earth even though most of us missed out on the storms today we should see a good scattering of showers and storms tomorrow with the daytime heating. Plenty of tropical moisture and instability should stay with us tomorrow while drier more stable air tries to move in for Thursday allowing us to lower the rain chances slightly. Yet another frontal trough will approach for Friday allowing for increasing rain chances again as we head into the weekend. Daytime highs will continue in the lower 90s away from the storms with heat indices pushing into the low 100s. Interestingly enough the anomalous upper level pattern of a northwest flow aloft is expected to continue through the first week of August…keeping the chance of storms in the forecast and tropical easterly waves suppressed well south of the northern Gulf Coast. Rob
Thank you so much for the heads up on this! I didn’t see a third object, I’m assuming it wasn’t bright enough, but the first two were very bright and amazing to see!!!
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29 Jul 09 at 2:36 pm