Harold Asmis @hasmis@qoto.org

#physics #weather **New Zealand hit by a plume** A very unusual steady plume has a direct hit.

**Ontario to build new nuclear station** Too many cooks, etc. They are contracting out all the engineering and keeping the high-paying stuff for themselves. I wish them luck. Note to engineers: Killer rabbit, run away!

#physics #weather **Cold California** If this wind channel shifts a bit more to the west, they'll get their storms again.

#physics #weather **Gulf Stream may be back** For most, it was never gone, but since 2016, the temperature plot of the ocean did not show any thermal signal that was different from the Pacific. Now it shows warmer water up past Scandinavia. This is leading the plumes up into that zone. No idea what that means.

**Intel goes down** They were a classic monopoly with MS. I was on Usenet with chip designers, when I hearing all the stories about how horrible they were with their people. It took a long time. Now, we have MS, the scourge of the world, who have a lock on businesses who like to be hacked. :)

#physics #weather **No change in Pacific**
Just got the ocean currents map -- no change in anything. The Pacific Cold Phase will continue, and we might as well stop calling it La Nina. This is all being assimilated into Climate Change, as we speak.

#physics #weather **Winds of the Earth**

No. 1 - NA is getting a direct stream from the pole. Very cold, should nudge natgas prices.
No. 2 Asia continues with a much stronger flow from Siberia
No.3 Europe has mixed flows

#physics #weather **Extreme cold is climate change** It all makes sense to the influencers.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/25/asia/east-asia-cold-snap-climate-japan-korea-china-climate-intl-hnk/index.html

“we can consider this extreme weather – extremely hot weather in summer and extremely cold weather in winter – as one of the signals of climate change.”

This is the exact same symptom as the ocean currents flipping, and the coming of the Little Ice Age. Of course, this is all due to carbon dioxide acting as a thermal blanket. I'm 100% for this, and I no longer have to offer basic physics.
I will continue to show the charts that the world temperatures are going down, and this is an 'all inclusive deal'. Drink all you want!
In Canada, we will get colder and the Arctic ice will build up. There's nothing that climate change can't do. Just don't invest in an Arctic shipping service.
In the summer, we are free to note that El Nino has been killed by his little sister La Nina, and his body stashed in a snow drift. It's all good! Invest in umbrella sales for Australia.

#physics #weather **Europe is a warmer mess** This is what I mean about it being a mess, but the African air is coming back, and the Siberian air is gone. Lots of tropical plumes up in the northern reaches, again warming everything. The influencers can dance again, the cold air isn't building up, and it will never come down again....

#weather **Toronto driveway cleared** We have the fun that the guy cleaning out the snow-row at the end is always too late. This was with my 6hp Honda single-throw blower which is enough for Toronto. Doing a full maintenance on my indoor sprout farm seemed to be more exhausting, but with limp, flavourless lettuce being so expensive, we all greatly enjoy the microgreens.

**Toronto Snow** A very wet snow, and now it is getting frozen solid.

**NHL massive tanking - not Leopards** They all want the new whiz kid. I'm not linking any more, since they all have paywalls, but it can be found using search.

**Social media landmines** Bunch of wimps.

https://www.ft.com/content/8d995a24-d77c-4208-a3a6-603d8788ebcd

#physics #weather **Normal winter** For NA, at least. Europe is a mess. Still not much air coming down the Bering Str. so we just get clippers.

#physics #weather **Moore Snoo** Wow, a neat storm in Toronto.

#gardening **New Seeds** We just discovered a great *hack*. Nobody gets photo prints any more, and we have these albums hanging around. We just got in our seeds for the season. I start the tomatoes in March under the lights. I may start the onions earlier, but extreme cold makes things difficult in the garage.

**Toronto Snow** It's coming in really heavy now. I'll have to get the snowblower out one day. We don't drive much, and I'll try not to drive in a storm.

**Google breaks me up** This is not like the at&t days. These things go so slowly that the company just dies by itself. However, this is a good signal that AI will prove to be their demise.

#physics #weather **No Go El Nino** At this point, the end of January, we must declare the death of Mr. El Nino. Perhaps, some might want to go on for another couple of months?

**Tanks** This is fine news for the morning. It's the only counter to the Stalin technique of sending millions of poorly equipped canon fodder over the front.