Tampa Bay Rocketry Association
TBRA
Winds aloft shown are for the St. Petersburg Airport, approximately 41 miles to the southwest of the launch site. This is the nearest winds aloft station.
The Keetch-Byram drought index (KBDI) is a continuous reference scale for estimating the dryness of the soil and duff layers. The range of the index is determined by assuming that there is 8 inches of moisture in a saturated soil that is readily available to the vegetation. Updated once every day at 1:15 p.m. Eastern/12:15 p.m. Central (Standard) or 2:15 p.m. Eastern/1:00 p.m. Central (Daylight Saving).
The Florida Forest Service uses the Wildland Fire Danger Index (FDI) for estimating the potential for a fire to start and require suppression action on any given day.
It does not consider how quickly any fires that do start will grow, or how difficult they will be to suppress.
Launch Site Weather Conditions
METARS report for the Brooksville airport, to include cloud ceiling,
temperature, wind speed.