This is not good for western rain. That only comes when a Gulf plume zooms up the middle and hits an Arctic cold blob. The Pacific plume has been cut off, but still fights the big cold blob coming down. This will hit us in a week.
At the cottage, my reputation continues to be in tatters, as we get big rain fronts approaching, and then get turned down to Toronto.
The weather people are preparing for the cold by trotting out a 'Flash La Nina', which will hit us if it is cold.
It so happened that one day, Lowkey, the trickster god, was tired of the pink perfection of Barbieland. He designed a perfect smokeless fire pit, for burning wood pellets, and using a solid pellet starter.
For burning pellets it needed lots of air holes, and a chamber beneath to collect the ashes from the screened area above. This gave many of us in Barbieland a fine fire for cold Springs.
But, as Lowkey knew, Ken decided to have a dramatic show for his lovely ladies. Although Barbie had all the brains in the land, she let Ken be incharge of fires, because it made him feel good.
For the starter Ken poured on a litre of gasoline. Now, he gathered all the ladies, for the expected 10 foot whoosh of flame, just like a rock concert. Little did he know that Evil Physics was working its magic. Inside the lower chamber, the gas dripped through and created the perfect air-fuel mixture for a mega-bomb.
On the count of three, he dramatically dropped the match. BOOM! Fire shot out all the air holes, melting all the plastic ladies, sagging down to the knees. Nothing happened to them, they just went back to their PLASTIC surgeons, and got fixed again. But the shoes were ruined.
When the good government of Barbieland heard about this, they went "OOOOH NOOO! The Jimineychoochoos!" They issued a recall of all the fire pits, and those of us who had practically burned out theirs, got all their money back.
Now, this is a fable, and could never happen here.
Very powerful Arctic air is coming down on us.
Greenland is going back to cold.
We are back to colder than the average.
Our throwback 70's show 'Summer is Over', is trending, in the physics sense. However, we wouldn't mind the show being cancelled by the network.
This is a test of the 'Ice Advance Alert System'. In the event of a real ice advance, the snow wouldn't melt on the highlands. But the highlands won't come back for a few more thousand years.
Meanwhile, we can enjoy all the features of ice-advance weather without the wooly mammoths coming down to stomp us.
As always, this is just the physics version of reality, using the Scientific Method. Other versions of reality are available for your perusal. You may prefer the 'lefty warmie' version of a noble class of selfless intellectuals fighting the horrendous oil companies. Or the 'righty tighty' version of 'No Science, No Nothing'. They are all good.
ps all ocean temperatures are hooking down again. So much for my hopes of warmth.
