It rained here in Georgia today. Not that unusual except that the rain came in from the southeast, which is not what we usually expect. The culprit is a tropical system, not organized enough to be named but carrying plenty of moisture with it, that has been drenching the Miami area today. (You can see it in the radar image below off the east coast of southern Florida.) The spin around the storm is bringing Atlantic moisture into the region, resulting in lots of showery activity. It also has the potential to interrupt a historic space launch from Cape Kennedy, the first time in many year that American astronauts are being launched from the US (recent astronauts headed to the International Space Station hitched a ride on Russian rockets). Dr. Marshall Shepherd of UGA’s Atmospheric Sciences program is a former NASA employee and wrote an interesting article today on how the tropical system could affect the launch on May 27. You can read it at Forbes.com here.
