Harold Asmis @hasmis@qoto.org

NOAA global temp plots
#weather #climate
With the Pacific cold phase firmly entrenched, we have the 1 to 5 year physics forecast as cold for the world. It is fortunate that the temperatures look flat. Looking at past cold cycles, I continue to expect that it will be dropping more.

#weather #snow #Toronto
End of my broccoli. It was producing until now.

My daily blogging has transferred to here, for now. I do the larger articles on my blog because I can get more than 2 images. I give Mastodon till Christmas to live. :)

Disorganized clippers hit North America. A cold blob heads for Europe.
#weather
Pacific plumes hitting straight north usually give clippers, which are layered cold/hot streams from the NW. Now, we just have 'clipper swirled ice cream' Europe may be at the end of their happiness as a blob is forming, but it has to fight the Atlantic plumes.

Classic ransomware
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/inside-turmoil-sobeys-ransomware-attack-1.6650636

#security
This is always the same. ""Somebody higher up got an email and basically clicked a link they weren't supposed to,"
I always found that the 'top egos' always wanted tremendous access while letting their kids play with their laptops.

Montreal earthquake
#earthquake
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/earthquake-hits-montreal-area-saint-jerome-1.6651785
Earthquakes are my main love, but nothing has really happened over the last 20 years. I'm more interested in mechanisms and effects on structures. This was a common earthquake for the area.

#humor I just wonder if this is a passing fad.
https://globalnews.ca/news/9276997/amazon-layoffs-reports/

#mondog Just got the Christmas decors out with last year's dog hair all over it.

Fusion still decades away.
#physics
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d34y5/nuclear-fusion-experiment-reveals-unexpected-physics-inside-burning-plasma
Drat, there goes my hope to see it before I kick the can. Totally new physics, they are all happy, when they should be saying - f*ck!
As I have said, we have a severe scaling problem and now we have new physics. :) New physics, like new engineering is not a good thing for commercial power.

The question of masks
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-dr-kieran-moore-announcement-1.6650571

I would put forward a hypothesis that masks will not change any statistics with a general population. China is a fine example. Studies have been done with an uncovered cough, but who does that? Covid comes in through the eyes, so that masking would have to reduce air viruses to zero.
In the mass wearing of masks, people wear them for hours and talk loudly to compensate. The electric charge on the mask fibers is instantly killed by moisture.
Masks work for a short duration in an OR, where everybody talks quietly. I would propose physics tests on particles, and would further check the effectiveness of wrap-around glasses for a significant effect on large numbers.
I am not arguing this, as it seems to be a matter of faith.

Europe is warm
#weather #climate
There are no cold air blobs coming directly down on Europe. They are coming down the Atlantic, and colliding with warm plumes from the Gulf area. This looks to be a stable pattern for a month, as the Pacific plumes are just dumping on North America. The Pacific plumes generally scoop out the Arctic air like ice cream.

Old person health tips
I have found that nature conspires against you and wants to turn you into a walking fungus. The best help is tea tree oil. Scratch-massage your scalp. I found horrible bumps and these are colonies of yeast trying to eat you. They live under a biodome that protects them. Give them a light scratch and put on Polysporin triple for the pain. Continue with a daily massage of tea oil, and kill the bumps. Also toe fungus.

Physics Weather
#weather #climate
The big blob of cold air, pushed by Pacific plumes has come to the end of its run, stopping just short of freezing the big rocket. The Pacific plumes continue to push straight North, so we can expect more of these 'air glaciers'.

Speaking of eyes, if you are old and have dry eyes and need eye drops, try this, which is legit Scientific Method. Get a cheap red led flashlight from ammie, and shine it in your eyes in the morning for 3 minutes. The mitochondria love it and it takes 10 years off your eyes. Lots of articles on that. Then I go to my blue light because there's no sunlight in Canada right now. I've stopped using eye drops and I read constantly on my ebook.

I just love scrolling the Federated feed. I can last 10 seconds before my eyes fall out. 😀

Twitter will soon get up to its purchase price in economic damage.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/freeport-lng-calls-out-fake-freeport-letterhead-and-false-information-on-twitter-271668203580

Living near the airport, we are the drivers for the extended family. I always go by this plane and say something obscene.
https://www.insauga.com/russian-cargo-plane-stranded-at-pearson-airport-in-mississauga-owes-more-than-270000-in-parking-fees/