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Temps to warm up this week following cold front

VERO BEACH — Seems Jack Frost is done with his winter vacation in Vero. Now temperatures will sizzle up to 80 degrees this week along many of the sunshine state's beach towns, according to the National Weather Service in Melbourne. The warm weather will come just in time for the New Year's holiday weekend. Vero Beach will have highs in the 70s Wednesday through Friday, which will dip to the 60s in the evenings, forecasters said. Saturday - New Year's Eve - and Sunday - New Year's Day - will have highs in the 80s, which will drop to the 60s at night. The week will have sunny skies, while the weekend will be a mix of partly sunny and ...

SpaceX Crew Dragon launches first operational flight to ISS

It looked like the sun rising above the clouds against a backdrop of a clear night sky. In reality, the large column of light that rose above the Atlantic Ocean Sunday evening was the historic launch of the crewed SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. Atop the rocket was the Crew Dragon capsule named Resilience. The capsule carried four astronauts including Victor Glover - the first Black astronaut who will live on the International Space Station for a six-month science mission. The journey to the space station was expected to take 27 hours. The Crew-1 astronauts are Crew Dragon Commander Michael Hopkins, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist Shannon Walker, all of NASA, and Japan ...

Vero Beach sets monthly rainfall record for July

VERO BEACH — The wet season lived up to its name this month as the city set a new rainfall record, beating the previous record set more than a decade ago. Meteorologists recorded 14.29 inches of rainfall in Vero Beach so far for July. This breaks the old July record of 13.72 inches reported in 2007, according to the National Weather Service in Melbourne. With four days left in the month, Vero Beach will likely add to the new record, forecasters said. Meteorologist John Pendergrast said the rainfall amounts are above normal. There were no reports of localized flooding for July in Vero Beach, meteorologists said. Wet season, also called rainy season, runs from mid-May to mid-September. The dry season ...