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B8 Wednesday, April 14, 2010 WEATHER VALLEY MORNING STAR AccuWeather.com SEVEN-DAY VALLEY FORECAST VALLTY MOKJUMO I ItAgrkihfiiHki MMaay kkc 88' I 10 eT Iff 65' Mostly cloudy, a couple Mostly cloudy, a couple of t-stonm8 of t-storms Mostly cloudy, t-storms possible Periods of sun, a t-storm possible WindK ESE B-16 mph POP 30 Mostly cloudy, a t-storm possible Windc ESE 12-25 mph POP 30 Mostly cloudy, a t-storm possible Winds SSE B-16 mph POP 30 Partly sunny Winds: ESE 10-20 mph POP 10 Wind ESE 12-25 ntfi POP 60 Windc ESE B-16 mph POP 65 Wind SE 15-25 mph POP 35 i i A k. i A k. i A k. i A i A Forecasts and graphics provided by Accu Weather, Inc. O2010 RIO GRANDE VALLEY TEXAS WEATHER TODAY POP: Probability of Precipitation Showers and thunderstorms Scattered showers and SOUTH PADRE ISLAND TIDES TODAY IT" ALMANAC DATA Statistics through 6 p.m.

yesterday HARUNGEN Highlow temperature 75769 Normal hkjMow 83763 Record high 100 in 2009 Record low 43 ki 1913 24 hours through 6 p.m. yesl 0.12 Month to date 0.33' Normal month to date 0.90 Bartodate 2.64' Normal year to date 5.49' Record precipitation tor date 1.3C BROWNSVILLE Hightow temperature 79770 Normal highlow 82765 Record high 95 ki 1983 Record low 44 ki 1913 24 hours through 6 p.m. yesl Trace Month to date 0.66' Normal month to date 0.76 YBartodate 625' Normal year to date 423' Record precipitation for date 0.90 MCALLEN Hightow temperature 76770 Normal hkjMow 85763 Record high 97 ki 2009 Record low 48 ki 2004 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest. 0.85' Month to date 123' Normal month to date 0.47" YBartodate 4.84' Normal year to date 3.99' Record precipitation for date 021' AIR QUALITY INDEX Raymondvllle PA.JZjI Mft.

tf1il4ll7IIW1a-1il4ll7ll1l11 i i oun tat Rio Grande City 8163 V. It II 9 Dev 1 thunderstorms. Cloudy, with a high near 79. East wind between 6 and 16 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40.

Tonight Scattered showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 63. High 5:59 a.m. PL Low PL 1.5 9:55 p.m. South Padra Island AAmarlllO 6875 -Dallas "sSiit, Shown Is today weather.

Temperatures are today highs and tonight-slows. Brownsville I Af I' OX 2QT MARINE FORECAST Laguna Madrs Wind east at 8-16 knots today. Waters a light chop. Visibirty under 2 miles in showers and thunderstorms. Rio Grande to Baffin Bay Wind east at 10-20 knots today.

Wave heights 4-8 feet. Visibirty under 2 miles in a shower or thunderstorm. POLLEN INDEX Yaatarday Grass jjWN Low Tree jjy Moderate Weed w8rs Low Mold Moderate 4067 ElPaao j7 78752 UV INDEX TODAY Tha hlghw ABBuWaalnrjoai UV Max nunbar, graatsr tw naad tar aya and akki TODAY'S FORECAST iar4i, a a Mvez i 7759 YESTERDAY'S AO) READING WaatharfW): a-surmy; pc-party 10 am Noon 2 pm 4 pm 0-2 Low, Moderate, 8-7: High, -10: Very high, 11: Extreme douoy c-ctoudy, ah-showars, tthunderetorms, Hah, atarow flumes, an-snow, Hob, Prcp-preopHatlon, TNraoa, NATIONAL CITIES Source: Dr. Gary Smith Source: TCEQ NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY la I Ma I I Ma I Hflfla I HHft.1 40a I 7t I -10a -Oa Ob 10a 20a City Ud Rock Los Angeles Loulsvie Memphis Miami wv City Many Abuquerque Anchorage Atlanta Atlantic City Bangor Banrnora Warm Front ationay BaT Minneapolis Mobile Montgomery Nashvttto New Orleans NawttxkCty North Ptada Oklahoma City Omaha Orlando SUN AND MOON Sunrise today 7:09 a.m. Sunset tonight 7:54 p.m.

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But the astronauts had trouble attaching the new tank to the space station because of a stubborn bolt, and some chores had to be put off. A couple other tasks were scuttled Tuesday because of all the time spent on the latest troublesome bolt Mastracchio and Anderson wrapped up the 6V6-hour spacewalk with some prep work for the next shuttle visit, scheduled for just a few weeks from now. Down at the Florida launch site, Atlantis was moved out of its hangar for the short trip to the Vehicle Assembly Building, the last stop before the pad. NASA temporarily parked the shuttle outside in the sunshine so workers could snap pictures. It will be the last flight of Atlantis.

Liftoff is targeted for May 14. The spacewalkers indulged in some picture-taking of their own. "Look over here," Anderson told Mastracchio. "Oh, baby, you're going to want to take this one to the grandkids." ByMARCUDUNN The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fta. A pair of spacewalking astronauts finished installing a fresh storage tank outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, but a stuck valve was threatening to jeopardize half of the cooling system.

No sooner had Rick Mastracchio hooked up the fluid valves for the new ammonia tank on the third and final space-walk of shuttle Discovery's flight, then flight controllers encountered the valve trouble in a separate pressurizing unit Flight director Ron Spencer said the problem needs to be resolved as soon as possible and that spacewalking repairs may be needed sometime after Discovery leaves this weekend. The problem is exasperated by the fact that a period of intense sunlight on the space station is fast approaching, and the ammonia will be expanding more than usual with the added heat The stuck valve is in a nitrogen tank assembly on the right side of the space station. Nitrogen is used to pressurize the ammonia, which circulates through large radiators. Without that capability, half of the station's was. Mission Control told the astronauts that they had to drive in all four bolts all the way, one way or another.

"How you guys feeling?" asked shuttle pilot James Dutton Jr. "I'll feel better when we get this thing bolted in," Mastracchio said. "No kidding," Anderson added. When Mastracchio finally drove in the bolt astronaut Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger shouted, "Now I can finally say good job, we have the ammonia tank in the payload bay." Earlier, she was too quick in offering congratulations. NASA wants to return the old tank to Earth next week, in order to fill it and fly it back up this summer as a spare.

The space agency is trying to stockpile as many big parts up there as possible. Only three shuttle missions are left after this one, and there will be limited room on the much smaller Russian, European and Japanese cargo ships that will be supplying the station until its projected end in 2020. President Barack Ob-ama will outline his objectives for NASA's human spaceflight program Thursday during a visit to Kennedy Space Center. He's already axed I i I NASAThe Associated Press In an image made from a NASA television broadcast, Rick Mastracchio and Clayton Anderson work in the paytoad bay of the space shuttle as they prepare to load a virtually empty storage tank to take back to earth for a refill Tuesday. The seldom-used valve cannot be replaced alone.

The entire nitrogen assembly would have to be swapped out. Fortunately, two spares already are at the space station. As engineers struggled with the nitrogen valve, Mastracchio and Clayton Anderson were dealing with a stubborn bolt on the old ammonia tank, which had been removed on the previous electronics eventually might have to be turned off. The cooling system on the left side left alone on this flight is operating just fine. For now, so is the one on the right side.

"We do have a couple tricks up our sleeves" to remotely free the valve, Spencer told reporters. He said a spacewalk would be a last resort and that it was too soon to know when a decision might need to be made. In what almost seems to be a common occurrence on this flight one of the four bolts on the tank would not engage. Mastracchio and Anderson were trying to secure the boxy, tank in Discovery's cargo bay when the problem cropped up. It appeared to be a misalignment, and they pulled out a pry bar to try to fix it The pry bar wasn't needed, but a torque-increasing device.