Harold Asmis @hasmis@qoto.org

Snow building up in Toronto.

#weather #physics I've been waiting for this. The extreme cold is 10 times worse because of climate change. They are using the 'dancing jet stream' as the villian. I totally believe that (so the Dr. doesn't get blocked).
If we want to go into physics, you can look up on WikiP that the jet stream is passive to hot and cold zones. It's like a shadow, and cannot move air particles. It is just a continuous roll, like a thunderstorm, except there is a slight vector westward on the descending air. This can be 'sailed' by jet planes. Please don't think about physics, it keeps you up at night.

#weather Toronto as the snow starts. I like looking at this stage because I keep saying "Yeah, I don't have to shovel yet!"

I think we should make a list of qualifications here. My relative had a work term with a desk right beside him in early Tesla days. All I can say is 'wooo boy" :) For my suggestion, I keep thinking about Trump's press secretaries.

#physics #weather Western US in a cold-lock, UK has another very persistent cyclone. A cold lock is what happens with Greenland all the time. The cold air is so dense and stationary that the ocean plumes of heat can't penetrate. Never saw it with NA, but you can see all the plumes are bouncing off the coast. Revel in the new experience!

#physics #weather All hopes are on the impossible physics of the ocean currents turning on a dime. When that map starts turning white it's -60C, or something in F.

#weather - 50 below goes to Texas, again. This is a repeat of the 'Big Freeze'. We should be hearing all the stories soon. It was curling to the East Coast. This is accredited to 'Polar Vortex Fairies', even though the PV exists only in near-vacuum. High velocity, very little energy.

#weather The Big Black Blob.

Planes, trains, and automobiles. Great movie. My son is right now on a flight from Sanfran. His plane suddenly zoomed from 30 min early (when they thought they had the wind behind them) to 30 min late (probably had to avoid the turbulence). Never seen that.

In a shock to all us old people, she has been declared 'over the hill' and will soon star in Hallmark movies.

Oh, don't we have a nice tax-evader for him!

Christmas gift for our fearless qoto leader.

#physics #weather -- Fickle Finger of Cold heads to Toronto -- My son's flight from Sanfran to Toronto was cancelled, probably stuck in Vancouver. They better get here before this thing does.

#physics Momentum keeps cold water going -- It is universally acknowledged that La Nina must die. All 2023 forecasts incorporate this. However, the kinetic energy involved in this flow probably exceeds all known natural events.

AI to destroy the Internet. Quote:

But there is a more serious long-term implication. We may be witnessing, in real time, the birth of a snowball of bullshit.

Ha, I think I broke my side laughing. Can we have a list of all the current bullshit?

BC gets the black. That's 40 below. Pipes will freeze.

#physics A tale of two graphics. First is the latest from The Guardian, second is my choice of 'all months' from NOAA. Mine makes it look like the temperature is going down. Perhaps it is distorted. Anyway, we have a hypothesis --

" But he added: “For next year our climate model is indicating an end to the three consecutive years with La Nina state, with a return to relative warmer conditions in parts of the tropical Pacific.

“This shift is likely to lead to global temperature in 2023 being warmer than 2022.”

#physics Violent Clear air convection. It's not studied any more, since it can't exist in a greenhouse gas situation.

Hudson Bay closes up for the winter. We had a heat vortex for the last month, and now the cold air just goes over it.

Texas has to move injection sites. Perhaps back to Oklahoma? But the sad news is that there is no site in world for this injection.