Harold Asmis @hasmis@qoto.org

#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.

#linux **Losing the bluetooth keyboard** I have a small media computer on the big screen, running Debian. I was then trying to get the upstairs Android tv to work, and to clean it out. Those things are cheap because they preload with everything, probably for a kick-back. Anyway I foolishly took my little bluetooth keyboard/mouse upstairs and paired it to clean it up. Took it down again, and it didn't work -- surprise! I only had one usb keyboard and no usb mouse. Finally used ssh and bluetoothctl to hook it back up. Lots of walking back and forth between one computer and the tv. It's complicated. All works now.

#physics #weather **Numerical Problem**

https://www.wired.com/story/friederike-otto-world-weather-attribution/

She says 10 times, the met says 160. Even the physics approach predicts more big heatwaves. As the oceans shut down, the plumes become too weak to clear 'solar furnace' heat waves. Super-hot, but short summers, like the 70's

#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.

**The cost of going after someone**

https://financialpost.com/fp-work/jordan-peterson-order-could-happen-to-anyone-now

_As a result of the most boneheaded unforced error I have ever seen, the Ontario College of Psychologists is about to propel his already ascendant career into meteoric orbit._

#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!

**Still not seeing a recession** I would have expected to see some sign of it, like all the small businesses in the industrial condos. No house sales in the neighbourhood.

#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.

**US supported drug cartels take over Mexico** The druggies have more money than the army. This all comes from the insatiable demand of US movie stars. It will get to the point that none of us will be able to vacation in the Sun. In Canada, we should legalize opium poppies and coca leaves. That stuff is a wonderful cure, compared to all the substitutes.

#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...

**Warm story before the cold** This is a nice story, with Polar Vortex Fairies. Everybody has a different story.

#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.