I'll be watching from here in Tampa. Hoping for clear skies between here and there.
"The GOES-S weather satellite, to be renamed GOES-17 once in orbit, is bolted on top of a 197-foot-tall (60-meter) Atlas 5 rocket set for launch from Cape Canaveral at 5:02 p.m. EST (2202 GMT) Thursday.
The launch window extends for two hours, and the official weather outlook calls for an 80 percent probability of favorable conditions."