No joke, some text of the above noted warning is provided below with a link to the NWS page.
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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