Friday on the Space Coast: Nov. 13, 2026

About 90 households at the Windover Palms apartments off Eber Boulevard in Melbourne had to be out of their flood-damaged units by Friday, Nov. 13, so repairs can begin, after the Nov. 2 flooding damaged electrical, HVAC and fire-safety systems, the property manager, Atlantic Housing Foundation, said in a statement shared with WESH. The American Red Cross and the City of Melbourne opened a temporary emergency shelter at 4 p.m. Friday at the Joseph N. Davis Community Center, 2547 Bruce D. Buggs Street, for residents whose units remain uninhabitable, according to a city news release.

The FAA ordered a nationwide ground stop Friday afternoon, holding departures at Melbourne and Orlando airports and every other U.S. airport after Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on X the stop followed "a communication issue impacting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers." The FAA said on X at 5:02 p.m. that a temporary telecommunications outage led it to halt all flights "out of an abundance of caution," and as of 5:32 p.m. it had not announced that the stop was lifted; Melbourne Orlando International Airport asked travelers to contact their airline before heading to the airport.

United Launch Alliance called off Friday's planned Vulcan launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and will try again Saturday, Nov. 14, at 12:32 p.m. EST, after a power interruption at the Air Liquide gaseous nitrogen plant knocked out its high-pressure pumps, according to a ULA update posted Friday morning. Saturday's launch window runs from 12:32 to 1:01 p.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 41, according to ULA's mission page, and ULA said the rocket and the 40 Amazon Leo satellites are healthy.

The St. Johns River near Cocoa was at 17.1 feet at 9:15 a.m. Friday, in major flood, and is expected to stay steady around 17.1 feet, with slight ups and downs, through early next week, according to a National Weather Service Melbourne Flood Warning issued at 10:22 a.m. Friday. NWS no longer forecasts a 17.2-foot crest this weekend; flood stage is 16 feet, the warning remains in effect until further notice, and NWS lists these impacts at 17.2 feet: water entering homes in the Lake Poinsett area west of Cocoa and low-lying homes in Rockledge's Silver Pines subdivision and Cocoa's Shakespeare Park area, and Providence Road west of Cocoa becoming impassable.