Harold Asmis @hasmis@qoto.org

#physics #weather **Arctic spills in the news** Ha, no news, but the Siberian spill is now the most powerful I have seen in terms of energy -- M9 spill. However, a new spill is opening up to the UK -- M3. There are no other spills right now. It is expected that other spills would drain the system, thus ending the California disaster.

#physics #weather **Cooling Credits** It's a fine sign of the times.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/07/geoengineering-startup-mimicking-volcanic-eruption-to-cool-earth.html

#physics #weather **Dancing jet stream** Whoops, just a few days ago, it was a straight jet stream causing extreme weather. I just can't figure it out. :)

#physics #weather **December ice plot in** I can see it is going up, but nobody else can. It's a vision thing.

#physics #weather **State of the ocean** No change, so I'll just leave it as a blog.

https://ontario-geofish.blogspot.com/2023/01/state-of-ocean-jan-7-2023.html

All the cold Arctic air is sliding over to the Siberian side, and there's no news there. So, we have a mild winter -- Yeah!

#physics #weather **Cold blobs dead** They've been hit and shattered by ocean plumes. Except the Siberian flow. For a good M9 blob, you need to see powerful laminar flow behind it, and the others didn't have that. Siberia is going to extreme cold. NA has a Pacific plume schlooping over the mountains, so that is warmth.

#physics **Destructive Resonance Part 2** or organ pipes. This became a billion dollar issue at a nuclear plant. The key to destructive resonance is that the input can tune to the pipe resonance. Just like nuclear plants, the pipe makers would have wanted more sonic volume, while lightening the steel. **Lots of booms!**
The input for the pipe is a thin laminar stream of air onto a knife blade. Normal vibrations would get it going, and then the air stream would waver in time to the resonance. I used to do this to scare the tourists on those wobbly suspension bridges, but the secret was to appear to walk perfectly normally. You would sense the motion and swing in time to the waves going back and forth. Such fun!
On a pipe, the air would feed a pulse into the pipe at the right timing. The only thing stopping destruction would be the natural damping of sound energy exiting, and the flow of the air. That point was only found by blowing things up.

#physics **Organ pipe resonance** Now that I am rolling in the dough, or rolling the dough for pizza, I can go into simple, interesting physics. No need to be controversial.
A organ pipe is a lovely tone. However, it is thought of as a bell, or chime, vibrating when struck. The people who made these things knew different. Organ pipes live on destruction positive-feedback, that could easily blow up pipes. Lucky for us, that only happened with the early pipes in their shops.
To be continued...

#physics #weather **RSS world temp plot down** The big news is the huge dive of the tropics. My hypothesis has an extremely non-linear heat machine in the tropics. Of course, this would need physics funding to measure it, and that's not going to happen. As it is, the people can just stare at the effect of cold blobs and be pacified by jet stream stories. :)

#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.

#physics #weather **My forecast wrong**
The chaotic nature of the ocean plumes has zapped me again. I thought it would be a repeat of the NA and Europe Arctic spills. Instead, we have a huge cold air spill through Siberia and into the Pacific Ocean. This is giving California a heck of a time. If you just look at chosen spots, you see a lot of warm weather, and you can make a convincing story that we are having a mild winter.

#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.

#physics **The power of exponential growth**

https://brownstone.org/articles/the-evidence-covid-19-was-spreading-around-the-world-in-late-2019/

Covid was piddling around the world from the late summer of 2019. I got one of the first cases in Jan. 2020, from my brother-in-law who started the Bracebridge cluster. :) It was just a flu then. The article says that other viruses had a physics effect, but covid was under the noise. No philosophers in the media get the concept. The Chinese were just smart enough to type it first, as it blew up.

#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.

#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 **Dinosaurs with Physics** This is a great boring story, that I've done in my blog. It's the dinosaur story with physics. Nothing to do with the influencer story, I'm not even including charts.
You can get a chart of the Earth's temperature for the last 2 billion years. It goes up and down in a sinusoid with a cycle of about 300 million years. Nobody puts the plate tectonics 'Shmoosh Factor' on top of that.
Yes, Virginia, continental shmooshing is in perfect sync with that. When the continents are flung apart, we get cold, when they are together we get heat, and jungles on the poles.
The physics for that is beyond this discussion, but be assured that the same game physics has been operating since the beginning. During the last cycle, the Earth was cold and giant 'mammally' creatures roamed -- warm blooded. Then the big shmoosh of the Mesozoic. Those creatures all cow-tipped with heat stroke because of another physics thing - heat dissipation.
Although the biomass of mammals was as great as ever, only tiny, all attention was on giant dinosaurs. Then the continents did their thing again. The big Arctic air glaciers knocked down the dinosaurs like iguanas falling from trees in a Florida chill. The mammals ate them. Circle of life.
Don't get me started with giant mammals.

#physics **Goognoculars** A brilliant idea to keep Google from the trash heap of history. I was reading about mechanical stabilized binoculars. They used a liquid prism that probably wasn't good at 40 below. Then I thought a successor to the famous creepy Google glasses. Make stabilized binoculars, all electronic. We'd call them 'prismless' Hook them into the Pixel 7-8-9.
I'd look at a bird from the cottage deck and it would recreate a beautiful AI image. Then I would move the slider from 'dull reality' to 'AI happiness'.
I would say - 'Darn, that's a common house sparrow. I want a Greater Spotted Tit'. And poof! Take a picture.
Now AI would put everybody out of a job. And then, why need goognoculars? Just make up pictures. Life is good. :)

#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.

#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.