Rain begins moving away from Florida today as seen on local radar.
There are no technical problems at pad 39A and the only concern remains the possibility of showers that could cause a delay. A broad mass of tropical air has soaked the Kennedy Space Center with torrential downpours over the past two days. The clouds are going to start to pull out of the area so now we're worried about where this moisture is really focused. I think as this low moves off from the coast, conditions look like they'll be more acceptable than they will be unacceptable. To reach the international space station, Discovery must take off within five minutes of the moment Earth's rotation carries the launch pad into the plane of the target's orbit.