Beyond that, things looked bad: he said that a mass of frigid air behind the cold front had swept down from the Canadian arctic, and his forecast for Monday night and early Tuesday was for extreme cold. The temperature in Tampa would fall to 14 degrees Fahrenheit, 21 in Orlando; at the Cape, he predicted it would be slightly warmer, but still in the mid-twenties. This was colder even than the record-breaking weather that had bedeviled Ellison Onizuka’s mission aboard Discovery almost exactly a year earlier.
303. Remember that flight? Oh boy.
