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Vandenberg Air Force Base announced that tonight's Delta 4 rocket launch is scheduled for a more-exact 8:14 pm. Countdown has started, but fueling was suspended because of high winds on the Central Coast. Spaceflight Now says that a weather briefing is coming up. [Just had it: no decision as of 3:10.] The website also has pics of the twenty-story-tall rocket on its launch pad.
Of course it all may be moot if these strange, tornado-alley conditions keep up. Out here by the beach the morning's June gloom has morphed into a heaving, humid beast that slams doors and gives off the vibe that something is going to happen. Wish it would already. Maybe the sky will clear in time to see the rocket exhaust erupt in the high-altitude sunset.
* All cleared up: As of 5:10 pm the launch is on and the Westside sky is high and blue.