Harold Asmis @hasmis@qoto.org

Got my wife the harry book today. Not saying how I got it. She calls out the page numbers and says 'Nothing good yet.' She's up to page 75. :)

@psmaldino Oh, that's a nice cover!

@TheOldGuy I still think Trump is 'unconvictable' like OJ. :)

**Getting used to Japanese Scotch** Before, I tricked a family scotch drinker to shoot it with me. Down like a hot poker. Now, I sniff it and taste just a drop. Very nice.

@ambulocetus anty-ish

@aebrockwell @freemo This reminds me of the abuse of the cc list in the old company. Emails had huge cc lists and the nasties tacked on other names to reply, thus making it invisibly bigger and bigger. So, I have a great fear of invisible lists, it is all for political purposes.

@freemo It's good to have a true 'gentleman scientist' which is a free-thinking scientist with money (male or female). Very rare.

#physics #weather **Arctic spill storm factory now starting in Atlantic** The bbc and other media keep insisting all this is just a lazy atmospheric river. Those are the pure ocean plumes without cold. They can drift forever, but when they hit mountains, they can produce rain. That's why the plumes are called 'precipitable water'.
But what we have in the Pacific are huge storms, near hurricanes, with a full feed of hot and cold. Now we are getting those hitting Europe. The storm drags in the cold feed, so the NW side is a blizzard.

#physics #weather **Pacific Storm Factory** Well, I find this fascinating, and have never seen it before. Yesterday, that storm near Japan was a baby, and now it's huge, fed by the Siberian spill. The big middle storm is now being fed by the Bering St. spill. There is no mention of the role of cold air in any of the news about these storms.

#physics #weather **All eyes on California**
My kids and grandson live on ground zero, so I am interested. The weather forecasters who can't physics themselves out of a paper bag, give a date of Jan 18 for it to end. But the power rating of the Siberian Spill looks to be increasing. Nobody is measuring it. An atmospheric plume is a benign thing unless cold air hits it. All those plumes are hooking with cold air, and forecasters can only see the pretty swirls. :) I have no estimate for it to end, perhaps the end of the month, but there's no physics to indicate that the Arctic headpoind is drawing down. Those other spills to Europe are weak.

**German left-wingers** After being on the Poots payroll for years, it will be interesting to see if they have any power left (sic)

#physics #weather **Ozone Follies**
I have no idea what the UN is talking about. I get a general impression that the ozone hole is getting bigger as things get colder. The chart is quite erratic.

#physics #weather *Large blob on the move** They finally fixed mimic again, so I can see. It is important to note the speed of the lobate blob. It's not like a spill, which is defined by the narrow laminar flow, but it was the big thing last year. At this speed, ENA will get it in a week.

#physics #weather **Europe lives in a plume paradise** They are surrounded by extreme cold, but nothing touches them. I am amazed.

#physics #weather **Give cold its due** The Siberian spill is still huge -- M9. You can see the clear blob incorporated into the ocean plume. Without the cold, these plumes can just drift forever, but the cold makes it rain.

**Washpost changes the headline** They named the big trouble-makers, and then changed it to **media**.

#physics #weather **All's quiet on the cold front** It's the same as yesterday.

@triptychphrases @xo Thanks for the response. I'm an earthquake guy, and the idea of filling all those basins fills me with dread. :)