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- From: gmarfoe@eng.auburn.edu (Gerald George Marfoe)
- Subject: STS-47 Launch Weather Forecast, 9/10/92
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- L-2 DAYS STS-47 WEATHER
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- FROM: George H. Diller
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- Weather Forecast for STS-47
- Forecast prepared on L-2 day
- Thursday, 9/10/92
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- Synopsis: An upper level low pressure trough and a weak frontal boundary
- will be over the Florida peninsula. The influence of a surface high
- pressure system centered over the Great Lakes will bring generally easterly
- winds in eastern Florida.
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- During the launch window from 10:23 a.m. - 2:17 p.m. on Saturday,
- September 12, the conditions are forecast to be:
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- Clouds:
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- 2,500-5,000 scattered cumulus
- 40% sky coverage
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- 25,000-28,000 scattered cirrus
- 50% sky coverage
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- Visibility: 7 miles or greater
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- Wind - Pad 39B: E at 8 to 12 knots
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- Temperature: 84 degrees at window open, 88 by window close.
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- Dewpoint: 74 degrees
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- Humidity: 72% at window open, 69% by window close.
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- Precipitation: chance of showers
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- Probability of launch weather criteria violation: 20%
- Probability of tanking constraint violation: 5%
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- Chance of violation at launch time on Sunday: 20%
- tanking: 5%
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- Chance of violation at launch time on Monday : 20%
- tanking: 5%
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- Developed by Cape Canaveral Forecast Facility, USAF
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