Page 10 WI RE www.sunnewspapers.net The Sun /Sunday, January 19, 2014 WEATHERIWORLD NEWS TODAY Mostly Sunny 680/ 500 0% chance of rain CONDITIONS TODAY UV Index and RealFeel Temperature Today 4 5 4 1 0 MONDAY Mostly Sunny 72 /550 0% chance of rain AIRPORT Possible weather-related delays today. Check with your airline for the most updated schedules. Hi/Lo Outlook Delays Ft. Myers 70/53 sun none Sarasota 69/50 sun none SUN AND MOON 45 64 70 71 66 60 SUN AND MOON 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. The u Rse et The higiertheAccuWeather.com UVIndex number, Today 7:18 a.m. 6:00 p.m. the heater the need for eye and skin protection. 0-2 Low; Monday 7:18 a.m. 6:01 p.m. 3.5 Moderate; 6-7 Hig; 8-10 Very Higi; 11+ Extreme. The Moon Rise Set RealFeel Temperature is the exclusive T 9 p 9 A AccuWeathercom composite of effective temperature Today 9:14 p.m. 9:10 a.m. based on eioit weather factors. Monday 10:06 p.m. 9:44 a.m. AIR QUALITY INDEX Last New First Full Air Quality Index readings as of Saturday I 36 50 0 2J n6 Pei IS.. Jan 24 Jan 30 Feb 6 Feb 14 0 50 100 150 200 360 506 0-50 Good; 51-100 Moderate; 101-150 Unhealthy for sensitive groups; 151-200 Unhealthy; 201-300 Very Unhealthy; 301-500 Hazardous Main pollutant: ozone Source: scgov.net POLLEN INDEX Pollen Index readings as of Saturday Trees Grass Weeds ooo.- Molds". " absent low moderate hie veryhigh Source: National Allergy Bureau ALMANAC Punta Gorda through 5 p.m. Saturday Temperatures High/Low Normal High/Low Record High Record Low Precipitation (in inches) 63/470 75/510 830 (1987) 300 (1977) 24 hours through 5 p.m. Saturday 0.00" Month to date 0.99" Normal month to date 0.99" Year to date 0.99" Normal year to date 0.99" Record 1.19" (2004) MONTHLY RAINFALL Month 2014 2013 Jan. 0.99 0.43 Feb. 2.12 Mar. 1.98 Apr. 3.06 May 2.76 Jun. 10.50 Jul. 7.38 Aug. 9.29 Sep. 11.12 Oct. 3.48 Nov. 0.01 Dec. 0.97 Year 0.99 53.10 Record/Year 7.07/1979 11.05/1983 9.26/1970 5.80/1994 9.45/1991 23.99/1974 14.22/1995 15.60/1995 14.03/1979 10.88/1995 5.53/2002 6.83/2002 (since 1931) Totals are from a 24-hour penod ending at 5 p.m. SOLUNAR TABLE Minor Major Minor Major Today 7:44a 1:33a 8:05p 1:55p Mon. 8:32a 2:21a 8:54p 2:43p Tue. 9:21a 3:10a 9:43p 3:32p The solunar period schedule allows planning days so you will be fishing in good territory or hunting in good cover during those times. Major periods begin at the times shown and last for 1.5 to 2 hours. The minor periods are shorter. TIDES High Punta Gorda Today 3:55a Mon. 4:37a Englewood Today 2:32a Mon. 3:14a Boca Grande Today 1:37a Mon. 2:19a El Jobean Today 4:27a Mon. 5:09a Venice Today 12:47a Mon. 1:29a Low High Low 11:22a 5:22p11:10p 11:50a 5:49p --- 9:38a 3:59p 9:26p 10:06a 4:26p 10:20p 7:59a 3:04p 7:47p 8:27a 3:31p 8:41p 11:51a 5:54p 11:39p 12:19p 6:21p --- 8:17a 2:14p 8:05p 8:45a 2:41p 8:59p FLORIDA CITIES Today City Apalachicola Bradenton Clearwater Coral Springs Daytona Beach Fort Lauderdale Fort Myers Fort Pierce Gainesville Jacksonville Key Largo Hi Lo W 64 37 pc 69 51 s 68 51 s 71 51 s 68 41 s 70 54 s 70 53 s 70 48 s 66 34 pc 62 33 pc 70 59 s TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY THE NATION Isolated RM. Rain 73 / 460 30% chance of rain Mostly Sunny 600/ 390 0% chance of rain Sunny 67 / 44 0% chance of rain I -f * Cleamrater 0 " 68 5 Plant City 68 51 J70: 44 Winter Haen I 68,45 ... ^Tampa Brandunl 67/50 70,44 Bt '''* Bartu* **.B, 68,45 " St. Petersburg n a i S68/51 Apollo Beach Ft. Mead 68/51 48.. Ft.MeadB 66 48 69/44 ^..;. .: Wauchula 9Bradenton 69 48 69/51 Myakka Cit ietn Longboat Key4 i70/49 Limestone 70/54 Sarst 71 47 Sarasuta I "- 69/50 Osprey Arcadia 69/51 70,49 - Venice H Shown is today's weather. 70/52 North Port k ull Temperatures are today's 70/50 | 71/48 highs and tonight's lows. Port Charlotte S 4i68/50 Enolr.i,-.,.,n J--_ .. Gulf Water Temperature 590 70 51 "'" Placida% 70/52. Boca Grande* 70/58 Forecasts and graphics, except forthe WINK-TV 5-day forecast, provided by AccuWeather, Inc. 2014 Publication date: 1/19/14 MARINE Wind Speed Seas Bay/Inland direction in knots in feet chop Cape Sable to Tarpon Springs NNW 7-14 1-2 Light Tarpon Springs to Apalachicola W 8-16 2-4 Moderate City Key West Kissimmee Lakeland Melbourne Miami Naples Ocala Okeechobee Orlando Panama City Pensacola Today Hi Lo W 70 61 s 68 43 s 68 43 s 69 46 s 72 55 s 69 54 s 64 36 s 69 46 s 68 45 s 62 38 pc 62 38 pc Hi LoW 74 60 s 68 45 s 70 45 s 69 51 s 76 62 s 72 57 s 65 43 s 70 48 s 69 48 s 62 46 pc 63 45 pc Punta Gorda 71/50 Fort Myers 70/53 4 Cape Coral 70/52 4 Sanibel 70/59 Lehigh Acres 70/50 Bonita Springs % I 70/52 Aa,. .uWn h. kw ir-im "* City Pompano Beach St. Augustine St. Petersburg Sanford Sarasota Tallahassee Tampa Titusville Vero Beach West Palm Beach Winter Haven *10s I -Os Os 10s 20s I 30s I 40s 50s I 60s I 70s I 80o 90s~ Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. S'. Winnipeg .. .----tlte ^_.r.. ,, '. '^ .'-* 45."6 ,.-. Momreul Billings 27. 49126 Olma ..Toro.to*411 Minneapolis .29110 'hewYorK IT- Derroit 4r .San FrancisooDe-nV Chicag 2421 6 14 ve 30122 WNashinlgton \45131 7 Kansas City Fronts Pi Cold Warm Stationary Showers T-storms Rain U.S. Extremes (For the 48 contiguous states yesterday) High ...................... 87 at Corona, CA City Albuquerque Anchorage Atlanta Baltimore Billings Birmingham Boise Boston Buffalo Burlington, VT Charleston, WV Charlotte Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Columbia, SC Columbus, OH Concord, NH Dallas Denver Des Moines Detroit Duluth Fairbanks Fargo Hartford Helena Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Today Hi Lo W 56 31 s 33 30 pc 46 33 s 44 26 pc 49 25 pc 48 30 s 40 25 pc 38 27 sf 28 18 sn 30 10 sn 38 26 sn 50 26 pc 30 22 pc 32 27 pc 28 24 c 54 27 s 30 26 pc 34 17 sf 66 44 s 60 27 s 44 24 s 28 21 sf 22 -5 pc 18 7 c 22 -4 pc 36 23 sf 43 20 pc 80 64 s 68 46 pc 32 25 pc WORLD CITIES .....City Amsterdam Baghdad Today Mon. Beijing i Lo W Hi Lo W Berlin 1 55 s 74 59 s Buenos Aires 4 38 pc 63 45 s Cairo 8 51 s 69 56 s Calgary 8 42 s 68 48 s Cancun 9 50 s 69 56 s Dublin 0 31 pc 68 42 s Edmonton 7 50 s 69 57 s Halifax 8 45 s 67 49 s Kiev 2 46 s 71 50 s London 0 51 s 73 56 s Madrid 8 45 s 69 48 s Weather (W): s-s Mon. Hi LoW 55 29 s 39 31 r 60 30 s 47 24 pc 38 27 pc 59 30 s 42 24 s 37 16 sf 20 0 sn 16 -3 sf 44 17 c 59 30 s 22 4 sn 34 11 pc 28 7 sn 62 32 s 34 9 pc 29 3 sn 66 35 pc 47 24 s 32 -2 sn 25 2 pc 3-16 pc 23 12 pc 1 -20 sn 36 12 sf 37 21 pc 81 64 s 72 48 pc 30 9 pc Today Mon. Hi Lo W Hi Lo W 45 39 sh 42 37 c 65 45 s 66 43 s 45 24 pc 40 22 s 39 32 c 37 30 r 97 75 pclOO 75 t 72 53 pc 74 52 pc 36 13 pc 30 23 s 79 66 pc 79 65 s 43 36 c 42 36 s 32 7 pc 23 16 pc 36 26 sn 31 14 sn 20 14 c 19 16 c 46 34 s 43 34 pc 45 30 r 47 30 s recipitati Flurrie Miami 72155 ion s Snow Ice Low ................ -22 at Embarrass, MN City Jackson, MS Kansas City Knoxville Las Vegas Los Angeles Louisville Memphis Milwaukee Minneapolis Montgomery Nashville New Orleans New York City Norfolk, VA Oklahoma City Omaha Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland, ME Portland, OR Providence Raleigh Salt Lake City St. Louis San Antonio San Diego San Francisco Seattle Washington, DC City Mexico City Montreal Ottawa Paris Regina Rio de Janeiro Rome St. John's San Juan Sydney Tokyo Toronto Vancouver Winnipeg Today Hi Lo W 54 34 s 59 30 s 42 27 sn 65 42 s 81 51 s 36 31 pc 48 35 s 28 14 pc 30 7 pc 54 30 s 42 32 s 60 39 pc 40 29 sf 50 33 pc 67 36 s 39 20 s 48 31 s 70 48 s 76 50 s 66 45 s 45 36 c 45 31 pc Today Hi Lo W 70 41 pc 27 3 sn 24 -1 sn 48 39 c 30 0 sn Mon. Hi LoW 64 37 pc 44 9 pc 51 24 s 66 44 s 78 53 s 39 16 pc 58 29 s 19 1 sn 10-16 sn 64 35 s 51 22 s 65 47 pc 42 21 pc 58 33 s 58 25 s 36 -1 pc 45 23 pc 73 49 pc 34 12 sf 30 6 pc 49 32 c 38 15 pc 59 32 s 40 20 s 42 9 pc 75 42 pc 73 54 s 67 45 s 52 37 c 49 26 pc Mon. Hi LoW 72 43 s 7 -9 c 3-13 c 45 34 c 5-10 s t 86 75 s r 59 45 sh sn 36 22 sn s 84 72 sh pc 79 66 c s 45 34 c sn 14 -5 c pc 45 35 c sn -8-27 c unny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice. Syrian opposition to attend peace conference ISTANBUL (AP) -The main, western-backed Syrian opposition group voted Saturday in favor of attending a coming peace conference aimed at ending the country's bloody civil war, paving the way for the first direct talks between the rival sides in the nearly three-year conflict. The vote in Istanbul came as food supplies began entering a besieged rebel-held Palestinian refugee camp in Syria's capital for the first time in months, an apparent goodwill gesture by President Bashar Assad's govern- ment ahead of the peace conference, Palestinian and United Nations officials said. The Coalition was un- der huge pressure from its Western and Arab sponsors to attend the peace talks, scheduled to open Wednesday in the Swiss city of Montreux. The Syrian government has already said it will at- tend the U.N.-sponsored talks. The Coalition's leader, Ahmad al-Jarba, said in a speech late Saturday that they are heading to the conference "without any bargain regarding the principles of the revolution and we will not be cheated by Assad's regime." "The negotiating table for us is a track toward achieving the demands of the revolution at the top of them removing the butcher from power," Jarba said. But many Coalition members are hesitant to attend a conference that has little chance of success and will burn the last shred of credibility the group has with powerful rebels on the ground, who reject the talks. Many members boycotted the Istanbul meetings that began on Friday, forcing the Coalition's legal committee to approve the decision in a simple majority vote. The Syrian National Coalition's media office said that of 73 voters, 58 voted in favor of at- tending the conference. It added that 14 voted against attending the conference, two ab- stained and one simply turned in a blank ballot. The aim of the confer- ence, dubbed Geneva 2, is to agree on a roadmap for Syria based on one adopted by the U.S., Russia and other major powers in June 2012. That plan includes the creation of a transitional government and eventu- al elections. The U.S. and Russia have been trying to hold the peace conference since last year and it has been repeatedly delayed. Both sides finally agreed to sit together at the negotiations table after dropping some of their conditions. One of the main de- mands of the opposition was that Assad agrees to step down before going to the conference. With his government troops keeping their momen- tum on the ground, Assad's government has said he will not surrender power and may run again in elections due in mid-2014. It will be the first face- to-face meeting between the representatives of the Syrian government and the opposition since the country's crisis began in March 2011. Activists say the fighting has killed more than 130,000 people while displacing millions. k HEALTH NOTIFICATIONS Are You Hard Of Hearing? A major name brand hearing aid provider wishes to field test a remarkable new digital hearing instrument in the area. This offer is free of charge and you are under no obligation. 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Ten days later, Ecuador's state-run El Telegrafo newspaper wrote about a proposed online media outlet that is seeking funds in the United States, including with the National Endowment for Democracy whose Cold War origins and "democ- racy building" efforts have made it a boogey- man in the Americas. There was one prob- lem with the El Telegrafo story: According to Martha Roldos, a former legislator and government critic who was pitching the idea, the only way the paper could have had access to the information was by hacking her email. The twin "hacking" stories shed light on the small Andean nation that has been hounding the independent press even as it builds one of the most sophisticated state- run media apparatuses in the Americas, behind Venezuela and Cuba. Correa, a U.S. edu- cated economist, has repeatedly called the media his "greatest enemy" and leveled mul- timillion-dollar lawsuits against those who cross him. This week, as he celebrated his seventh year in power, there were no signs of a truce. Hacking cases rattle Ecuador -Page 10 WIRE www.sunnewspapers.net The Sun/Sunday, January 19, 2014 s TE hi 941;GUWUMFIUF.1 WEATHER/WORLD NEWS