She managed between commercials and before the half time show to do a post on the advisory providing some excerpts from it, with a link to it to prove she was not making stuff up, noting that the excerpted info might well change as the situation changes.

Well, she was correct on that, because this morning the advisory had been downgraded to reflect a weakening of the disturbance such that it went from a moderate chance of developing into a cyclone to zero chance.

Consequently, anyone noting the post today and taking the link may be suspspicious of the "cyclone" verbiage in the excerpts.

So, in her defense she requested (from under the covers, a little hungover from finally getting into the party) that I find something more permanent to back up the original post (at this link), which I provide below -- excerpts and link to full article -- from the Wunderblog of the World Weather Report website, which always has really good info on the weather around the entire planet that you will never learn of from corporate-owned mainstream media denierologists...

Is this football season or baseball season? The Super Sunday Invest 90L looks more characteristic of something we’d expect to see in May.

OK, this is officially nuts. The first Super Sunday Invest in history formed this morning in the Yucatan Channel between Mexico and Cuba, and is slowly becoming more organized as it moves northeast towards Southwest Florida.

The new disturbance, dubbed Invest 90L by NHC late this [Sunday] morning, has a modest but growing area of heavy thunderstorms near its center.

Visible satellite imagery shows a pronounced spin at middle levels of the atmosphere, and 90L may be able to close off a surface circulation if it can find 24 more hours of marginally favorable conditions.

Wind shear is a high 20 – 25 knots, which is marginal for tropical storm formation.

Ocean temperatures in the Yucatan Channel are 26 – 26.5°C (79 – 80°F), which is also marginal.

90L is suffering from ingestion of dry air along its western flanks, courtesy of an upper-level trough over the Gulf of Mexico...

Forecast for 90L predict that the shear will remain below 25 knots through Monday, so there is some potential for continued development of 90L as it moves northeast towards South Florida.

On Monday afternoon or evening, the storm will merge with a cold front and move over South Florida, bringing heavy rains of 1 – 3 inches and sustained winds of 20 – 25 mph.

If it develops into a tropical depression or tropical storm, which I put at a 20% chance [the National Hurricane advisory gave it 30%], the winds and rains will be higher.

Local yocal SoFla weather update. As of 11 a.m. in dark, gloomy, chilly south Florida, the rain is coming down in a hard rainfall, which has been picking up steadily since it started as a drizzel sometime well before dawn.

Given the above factors, it's our guess that the one to three inch prediction was low and we will no doubt have the ponding that we are now getting much too used to in what used to be the sunshine state but now seems more like the depressingly chilly swamp water state.

If you have not visited or vacationed here in a while, don't expect the weather to be like it was only a few years ago, and especially not like a few decades back when it was most always sunny and warm and pleasant in the fall and winter months.

As the non-football gal noted in her post last evening, the weather was better at the super bowl in Indy than it did here...

If you would like to peruse her original post on the intial Hurricane Center advisory, here is a link to it.

Editorial emphasis. Make clear note of the above implication that the "never seen before" super sunday tropical disturbance with moderate potential to become a "cyclone" -- in early February -- is at least four months "early", and is aberrant, but is "the new abnormal". Expect worse, for decades unfortunately, with increasing catastrophic weather events all around the planet, just like you see just about every day now, but which Republicans and their corporate-owned mainstream media denierlogists downplay, lowball, smokescreen, ignore, and just plain lie about...

Link to full article on the officialy nuts Super Sunday tropical disturbance in Yucatan Channel.

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If the system does not develop it still has had some really lousy effects on the weather here today.

Lucky the Super Bowl was in Indy. At least they had sunshine and comfortable temperatures there, and would have been a lousy day for it here...

And, again, even if the system does not turn into a hurricane -- or "cyclone" as the NWS put it in the warning -- you can see from the text below it could still pack a mean punch, as we well know here with past "popup tropical storms" (during the summer hurricane season, not in the middle of winter).

Anyway, recall that the U.S. just experienced a plethora of aberrant "winter tornadoes" in January, and now Florida is threatened with a "moderate chance" of a "winter tropical cyclone" hitting south Florida in February? With a 24 hour warning?

So, just like those corporate-owned mainstream media denierologists blew off the recent "winter tornadoes" as a silly ole "early start to tornado season this year", will they blow this off as an early start to hurricane season, or just a post-season tropical storm awakening three month late?

Well, what it is folks, is "the new abnormal". We have been ranting lately about global warming messing with the internal and external machinations of the planetary weather "oscillations" and "anomalies" creating all kinds of aberrant "first time ever" abnormalities in weather patterns while shameless corporate-owned denierologists lie to you for their mindless corporate slavemasters.

And so the new abnormal continues to worsen. And unfortunately, so it will continue to get worse in frequency, intensity, and strange new deviant abnormalities.

Realize and remember that If all human generated greenhouse gas emissions were stopped today, we would still suffer this increase in abnormal catastrophic weather for decades. And if greenhouse gas emissions are not slowed significantly within five years, you and yours are in deep doodoo, but lest we digress, below is part of the warning (caps by NWS) followed by the link to prove that this potential "winter cyclone".

SPECIAL TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 645 PM EST SUN FEB 5 2012

A NON-TROPICAL [sub-tropical] LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM INTERACTING WITH AN UPPER-LEVEL LOW

THE LOW IS CENTERED JUST WEST OF THE WESTERN TIP OF CUBA...AND A SURFACE CIRCULATION CENTER IS GRADUALLY BECOMING BETTER DEFINED. SHOWER ACTIVITY HAS BEEN SLOWLY INCREASING AND HAS BECOME BETTER ORGANIZED TODAY.

IF THIS DEVELOPMENT TREND CONTINUES...THEN A SUBTROPICAL DEPRESSION OR A SUBTROPICAL STORM COULD FORM DURING THE NEXT DAY OR SO. THIS SYSTEM HAS A MEDIUM CHANCE OF BECOMING A SUBTROPICAL CYCLONE DURING THE NEXT 48 HOURS AS IT MOVES SLOWLY NORTH-NORTHEASTWARD TONIGHT AND MONDAY MORNING...BEFORE TURNING NORTHEASTWARD AT 10 TO 15 MPH TOWARD SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE FLORIDA KEYS BY MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. REGARDLESS OF DEVELOPMENT... THIS SYSTEM WILL LIKELY BRING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS TO PORTIONS OF THE FLORIDA KEYS AND SOUTH FLORIDA OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS.

There ya go all you boneheaded Florida Tea Party legisgators, just pull your panties down and bend over and stick your head in the sand and try to ignore your first ever chance at a "winter cyclone", and keep it mind that it's the new normal. Still want to deny global warming goobernor Scott???

Link to NWS page that had this warning (it may be updated, not sure how they do their pages).

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"Death by committee" yet again for ethics regulations that would ban the same lawmakers from enacting legislation that would earn or cost those same lawmakers money. Or, more specifically...

The ethics proposal would prevent senators from proposing, participating, or voting on bills that could provide special, private benefit for themselves, their families, their employers, or their colleagues.

If elected officials were honest and "did the right thing", there would be no need for such laws, but almost all states have this type of ethics law, except Florida. Nor does it look like it ever will as long as the Florida legislature is infested with a majority of shameless TEApublicans. One apparently embarassed senator noted that...

"There used to be a feeling of shame up here where you wouldn't want to propose something from which you would personally benefit...I don't see that anymore."

Not since unsconscionable, greedy TEApublicans got -- for some reason -- voted in as the majority of legisgators.

There was plenty more about the unethically sleazy, underhanded conduct by the TEApublicans in the article, but the above gets the point across and the rest is just more nauseating TEAcraporama.

We ran across this article in the hard copy Miami Herald on page 7B of the February 4th edition and we are unable to catch the link right now.

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Below are some pertinent excerpts from the L.A. Times on the EPA pulling their panties down and bending over for big biz TEApubbers, with a link to the full article following the excerpts to prove we did not make this up...

Proposed new beach pollution regulations from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, meant to protect public health, instead would continue to allow lots of people to get sick, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council, or NRDC.

The EPA proposal, released in December, would allow 1 in 28 beachgoers to experience some gastrointestinal illness after swimming, rather than the 8 in 1,000 that were previously acknowledged. It’s mostly a tale of numbers, but the NRDC is trying to force the EPA to better the odds.

“They’re supposed to be using the new science to come up with a determination of what’s protective of public health,” says Steve Fleischli, senior attorney at NRDC. "All they’ve really done is said, ‘Well, the 1986 numbers are fine.’

Moreover, the new proposal allows sampling for bacteria to be averaged over a 90-day period, which is basically an entire season. Thus, a bad week might easily be missed when swimmers should be kept out of the water.

Link to "EPA beach pollution rules allow 1 in 28 to get sick".

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Then too, recall those increasingly "worst ever" heat waves and droughts that have killed thousands around the planet?

And what about those 2,800 heat records just broken, just in the U.S., just in the "lower 48", mostly in the eastern states, just in the single solitary month of January (facetiously renamed to Juneuary), with that many records broken for high temperatures in that one month, totalling four times more broken records than all of the heat records broken in the entire U.S. all of last year, all 12 months...

Golly gee whiz, I wonder if that might portend anything for the future? The near future. Like maybe something worse than "extreme heat", which is a rather loose term... In our highly researched humble opinion, they are understating the future overheating problem by qualifiying it all with the word "extreme". OK, it's semantics. But the point is, it's here to stay, let's just do something about it now to try to make it less worse in 20 years.

We provide excerpts from the article on extreme heat below, but first realize and remember that what all the predictions in the article ignored was that the existing atmospheric and oceanic overheating caused by global warming, clashing with the near-freezing meltwaters of thawing ice caused by global warming, has thrown off planetary bio-machinations, spawning catastrophic climate destabilization. You know, like...

• "never seen before" droughts in regions not prone to drought,

• epic wildfires that were state wide in Texas,

• historic flooding,

• a record Atlantic tropical storm season but all but one straying aimlessly north and not hitting land,

• a moisture-laden tropical storm remnant from the one landfalling hurricane devastating New England with record floods,

• the emergence of massive "supercell" tornadic systems wiping out large cities,

• snowless and idle mountain ski resorts from Tahoe to the northeast for the month of January,

• mile high and miles wide sand storms turning day into night and swimming pools into mud baths,

• a plethora of "winter tornadoes",

• wind blown coastal sands burying entire houses,

• temperatures of 80 below zero in Alaska,

• record cold and snow in eastern Europe stranding thousands and killing over a hundred people,

• F5 winter typhoons bludgeoning Australia and southeast Asia,

• a massive aberrant winter cyclone pounding South Africa,

• reports of vegetation and trees moving north into previously vegetationless polar tundra,

• the USDA redrawing maps of "plant hardiness" to reflect milder temperatures moving further north (hundreds of miles in some cases),

• animal and birds and fish and pestilent insect species moving further north and south into warming but cooler regions away from hotter central latitudes,

• oceanic shipping lanes opening in subpolar regions all year around,

• rising sea levels requiring populations to move further inland and away from island nations whose islands are shrinking up on the residents,

• and other problems that we either forgot about or do not have the time to bother with...

As you peruse the following excerpts, ponder that as the temperatures continue the obvious climb to more "extreme" levels, the more extreme "side effects" of global overheating such as catastrophic climate destabilization, are going to continue to escalate to new heights. And then consider that those of you -- not in, but -- that might be anywhere near tornado, flood, drought or wildfire prone regions, realize and remember the above noted northward warming trends and just how radically and erratically the aberrant weather has been bouncing all over the place, such as the spate of "snowmageddons" last winter doing an about-face to the snowless and spring like winter this year. That is not "freakish", it is what some refer to as "the new normal" but more realistacally is increasingly "the new abnormal"...

...change is expected to develop so quickly that by the middle of this century even the coolest summers will be hotter than the hottest summers of the past 50 years.

�We find that the most immediate increase in extreme seasonal heat occurs in the tropics, with up to 70 percent of seasons in the early 21st century (2010-2039) exceeding the late-20th century maximum�[this neglects the fact that the polar and near-polar regions are warming faster than sub-tropical and non-tropical sub-polar regions where the highest number of people reside].

Permanent changes in temperatures will have severe consequences for human health, agricultural production and ecosystem productivity [inrcreasingly more disease, food and water shortages, and depletion of vital resources, all of which is already occuring of course].

Unfortunately, the research was based on a relatively moderate forecast of greenhouse gas emissions [all climate modelling omits the increasing "natural" greenhouse gas emissions from avalanching feedback loops] in the 21st century, meaning that if human contributions to climate change continue unchecked [for five to seven more years], consequences [will be radically] more severe than predicted [the irreversible tipping point thresholds of the circular cascading feedback loops will be exceeded, triggering an explosion of hundreds of trillions of tons of naturally stored greenhouse gases 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide].

Link to full article at care2.com.

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And that number of records broken was -- pay attention now -- more than four times more than all of last year. Read that again if you did not catch the fact that four times more records were broken in just one month than all of last year. Remember that, and consider installing a new A/C if the old one might not be up to snuff for the coming summer...

That NBC Brian whats-his-name booblehead actually said all that benignly with a straight face, like, hey, so, what's the big deal Chemosobee...

Is anyone awake out there? Does anyone get it yet? Is everyone pharmaceutically lobotomized with doan-worree-bee-happee drugs?

Anyway, the coroporate-owned monopolized NBC evening nooz deniorologist excuse of the day for the above-noted EPIC record breaking June-like warmth in the middle of winter was simply that the silly ole jet stream just got lost and happened to have mozied on up there a little farther north than it was supposed to. Like hundreds of miles...

No mention of why the jet stream was hanging out waaay up there where it should never be, no mention of global warming being the actual reason for the aberrant jet stream movement. Hells bells there was no mention of anything else. Just, hey, that's ok, enjoy the nice winter spring-like weather, ain't it by-golly gee-whillickers wonderful that you can get out in shorts and a tee shirt in the middle of winter!

And forget about that late fall October record breaking aberrant snow storm, and never mind the snowless ski resorts all across the country this winter. Ignore the spate of "winter tornadoes", it's just an early start to the tornado season this year. Just enjoy the warmth and you ski resort owners, just file bankruptcy and move on to warm weather activities, forget snow and build a water park for somewhere to cool off in the overheated future!

Yeh, go on, burn some more carbon fossil fuels, generate some more greenhouse gasses, doan worreee beee hopeee, pull your panties down, bend over, stick your head in the sand, go back to sleep, and never mind that abrupt intervention into your behind, it's just social Darwinist corporate-owned Republicants doing what they do best, SCREWING YOU AND YOURS!!!

Did anyone notice there are no denierologist blabbering "where's winter?" or "where's Al Gore whin yuh need 'im?" like they were last year. Nope, there is not much they can salvage to distract people with when the weather shifts from a morass of epic "snowmageddons" one year to the exact opposite June-uary extreme the very next year, like, well, you know, that's just what happens when GLOBAL WARMING IS messing up the weather patterns of the entire freaking planet you mental midget Republican morons!!!

But no doubt, those same sinister jackasses are scheming up things like "hay! like, if it is global warmin, aint it great, instead of bieng snowed in and freezin to death (like they are in eastern Europe right now) you can get out in shorts and have fun (just don't look ahead to spring floods and tornadoes or summer heat waves and droughts, that's not so far away)...

Footnote of interest. Doing an online search on the phrase "2,890 heat records were broken in January" and another dropping the "2,890" produced a wholloping two direct hits, neither of which was corporate owned mainstream media puppets of course. We did note however that one result from Accuweather.com featured an article titled "January 2012 Breaks Heat, Cold, Snow and Tornado Records". We would bet a lot of money on that never having occurred before. Remember that, and file it away as highly aberrant, not "freakish" as the corporate owned mainstream media puppets blabber. It's actually "the new abnormal" brought on by global warming messing with the internal machinations of the planet, which the denierologists lowball, downplay, ignore, and just plain lie about...

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Speaking of fools, how can hypocritical, devoid-of-ethics, corporate-owned, obstructionist Republicans continue to shamelessly deny that global warming is real and mindlessly deny it is caused by greenhouse gas emissions from burning the carbon fossil fuels of big oil and big coal, going so far as to egregiously blabber that "global warming is the greatest hoax ever" [sic, sick, siiiick!].

Research shows that more than 97% of scientists actively publishing in the field agree that climate change is real and human caused. It would be an act of recklessness for any political leader to disregard the weight of evidence and ignore the enormous risks that climate change clearly poses. In addition, there is very clear evidence that investing in the transition to a low-carbon economy will not only allow the world to avoid the worst risks of climate change, but could also drive decades of economic growth.

Correction to the politely stated (and outdated) "97%" figure in the above excerpt. The figure is actually 100% of true climate scientists, as the other supposed 3% (which is now actually down to only 2%) are self-professed "experts" of some kind or other that are hired bribe-taking shills of big oil and big coal charlatans. Further, many of the denierologists "experts" are the exact same sinister shills going back over several decades that claimed that smoking was not harmful, that acid rain was not real, that the ozone hole did not exist, and that the "Star Wars" program was not a sham of the military industrial complex.

Repeat, the exact same nefarious people -- proven several times over to be serial liars -- now are denying and being devious skeptics and being deceptive contrarians about global warming and it's ugly growing spawn, extreme catastrophic weather, and of course these sinister bastards are getting well paid for it by big oil and big coal.

Proof we did not make this up: link to WSJ article source of the excerpt (it's the very last paragraph, but the entire article is worth reading, just don't read and believe anything else in that still untrustworthy front for the plutocratic wealthy elite).

For anyone that takes exception our labeling the WSJ as an "untrustworthy front for the plutocratic wealthy elite" deniers, just read the ludicrously ridiculous denier comments that follow the piece...

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Note that the following excerpts were from the usual overly cautious article, whereby scientists seek to avoid accusations by corporate-owned denierologist shills of being Chicken Little screaming that the sky is falling. Where we could not resist -- in addition to normal bracketed corrections -- we replaced some of the downplayed statements -- which from years of research we know to be standard "lowballese" -- with our own bracketed interpretations of what they avoided stating...

Scientists have warned of "dire consequences" to the human race after detecting the first signs of dangerous climate change in the Arctic [never mind the Antarctic?].

The region is fast approaching a series of imminent "tipping point [thresholds]" which could [sic] trigger a domino effect of large-scale [catastrophic] climate change across the entire planet [that means YOU Republicant denierologists!].

In a paper published in the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' journal AMBIO and Nature Climate Change, the lead author and director of UWA's Oceans Institute, Winthrop Professor Carlos Duarte, said the Arctic region contained arguably the greatest concentration of potential tipping elements for global climate change.

"If [when] set in motion, they can generate profound climate change which places the Arctic not at the periphery but at the core of the Earth system [biosphere]," Professor Duarte said. "There is [hard] evidence that these forces are starting to be set in motion."

Professor Duarte said the loss of Arctic summer sea ice forecast over the next four decades − if not before [yes, two decades before] − was expected to have abrupt [disastrous] effects in northern mid-latitudes, including Beijing, Tokyo, London, Moscow, Berlin and [hopefully Washington D.C. and] New York.

Research showed that the Arctic was warming at three times the global average...

In the next 10 years, Professor Duarte warned summer sea ice could be largely confined to north of coastal Greenland and Ellesmere Island, and was likely to disappear entirely by mid-century ["if not before"...].

A drop in Arctic ice had opened new shipping routes, expanded oil, gas and mineral exploitation and led to new harbours, houses, roads, airports, power stations and other support facilities [never mind the houses, roads, airports, power stations and other support facilities and forests that are collapsing into the melting not so permanent after all "permafrost"].

It had triggered a new gold rush to access these resources, with recent struggles by China, Brazil and India to join the Arctic Council where the split of these resources was being discussed.

But increased deposits of black carbon (soot) from coal-burning power stations had accelerated warming and ice melt.

Professor Duarte said the rate of Arctic climate change was now faster than ecosystems and traditional Arctic societies could adapt to.

The Arctic [will] stop being a carbon dioxide [absorbing] sink and become a source of [emissions of] greenhouse gases [trillions ot tons of methane, 20 times worse than CO2] if seawater temperatures rose by 4-5C ["IF"?].

"We [must] stop debating the existence of tipping points in the Arctic and start managing the reality of dangerous climate change.

"However, should these changes involve extinction of key species − such as polar bears, walruses, ice-dependent seals and more than 1000 species of ice algae − the changes could represent a point of no return.

"Confusion [CAUSED BY DENIEROLOGISTS bellering lies!!!] distracts attention from the urgent need to focus on developing early warning indicators of abrupt climate change, address its human causes and rebuild resilience in climate, ecosystems and communities."