Harold Asmis @hasmis@qoto.org

#physics #weather The Siberian spill continues for California, Europe is about to be 'sandwiched' by two cold air blobs. NA has a good blob coming down. The dam has breached and it'll be a cold time in the old town tonight.

**Poots orders things for the Front** But they have no phones. "Hello, hello? Why is nobody answering?"

**Tanks are just memories** This is a heavy tank war, and the West doesn't have any to spare. All the action went into these 'light vehicles' for Afghanistan. In the 70's all the action was into various loser tank designs.

**The Trillion Dollar Club** Notice that ammie just bought irobot. **A new robot sweeps clean**

**No heat electric cars** My kids have one of the first Ford electric cars. The range on a warm day is 70km. In winter, at 20 below, with snow on the road, it's about 30, if you turn on the heat. So, they are always freezing in the car. This innovation allows you to be a tiny bit warmer with no heat. I can't drive with a frozen nose. :)

#physics #weather **Siberian spill makes California wet** In California, the effects of an earthquake depend on the water table. Let's hope for no earthquake right now.
50% of a storm is the cold side. Right now, that's coming down from Siberia and the Alaska spill is still active. Everywhere else in the world, it's just swirly-mucky.

**All Glory for Tesla** Wow, I didn't realize the extent of the crash.

**Super-Gig Economy** Companies will fire all those working from home, and go for super-short gigs for 'skills'. This won't help them hire the 'brilliants' and they will all go down the tubes. :)

#physics #weather Last time, extreme weather was caused by a 'dancing jet stream' Now, they are into 'straight'. This is the Wednesday dance. On the physics side, the Arctic headpond still builds up, and all the ocean plumes are low and flat. At least the polar vortex fairies are quiet.

**Poor Sweden** Having been in the nuclear industry, and glad to be retired, I'd only buy reactors from South Korea, and poach all their people. :)

**No Canadians to China** Canadians should not visit China right now. Who knows what they will do?

#physics #weather **Spencer world temperature plot down** Sat plots work like a 'no touch' thermometer. They read infra-red and microwave energy from warm air or the surface. The Spencer plot follows most of the other plots that come later in the month.

#physics #weather **Nothing much going on**
The cold spill continues into the Pacific. The Arctic headpond of very cold air builds up, and it looks like a weak spot about to spill on NA. Europe continues to get plumes. We are waiting for another burst.

#physics #weather **Trickle Becomes a Flood** This is just pouring through the Bering Str. but no big flow on the continent. However, we are getting standard cold.

**A fine raqulet dinner for New Years Day** You can see it's Teflon. :) Very Canadian.

#climatechange **Insulation allows you to get a hot-tub**
There are no words for this.

**Hershey House** from the kit. By the 30-something kids. Lots of cursing, and not recommended for kids.

**Canada in the news** Although I hate the concept of lithium cars, this can be used for my methanol hybrid cars. :) We just need that whole groupthink thing to explode. The biggest crime of that, is not building a million windmills for battery cars (Ha!), but in the elimination of >all< funding for atmospheric physics. :(

**Oversteering** You can safely depend on the gov't to oversteer. A foreign coin laundry drove up prices of luxury condos and houses that nobody in Canada can afford to buy. When walking, watch out for falling houses. :)

#physics #weather **Cold air about to spill** Once again I am blinded by mimic, but this is also in the regular forecast for Toronto. The headpond is now leaking in two places, one for Texas and one for UK. Texas spill is now going through the Bering Straight. This will turn and freeze Vancouver and Sanfran. The flow will split and pour down to Texas on the other side of the mountains. This is a very early physics forecast, and I'm following the last pattern, because of no ocean plume activity. I wouldn't speculate on natgas with this.