Discovery is due to launch in about half an hour.
If it stops raining, and the lightning stays away.
If you have been to Florida, you know that if it's August there will be lightning. One year we sat on the runway for an hour, ten yards from the jetway, because there was lightning on the tarmac at the Orlando airport, and the guys who wave in the plane couldn't do their job.
The last shuttle launch was scrubbed a few times (after being delayed several days for a mechanical issue) because of lightning in central Florida.
I hope Discovery launches tonight. But if it doesn't, I'll be watching them resuit and try it on the next launch date. And the one after that, if necessary.
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