Sunday, May 24, 2026

UK gets our heatwave - bring out the water pictures!

 


Yeah, lots of pictures for one-day heatwaves.  I loved that heatwave!


Now we are getting cold equatorial plumes.  A while ago, I would have thought that to be impossible.  And a huge Arctic pulse is zooming down the Atlantic, instead of us or Europe.


You can see that plume is as cold as trumpy's heart.


Saturday, May 23, 2026

Starship blows an engine again

 


Mush is a 'bright' who did some really good stuff before he hit 40, and then, self-medicated.  Depression is the fate of all brights, and it requires careful medical care.  

This whole spaceship was conceived in a k-dream, and suffered from intensive attention from the big guy.  The first launch was too heavy and blew apart the launch base.  How could that happen?  It was classic 'tyrant engineering' and 'malicious compliance'.  I've been well aware of that at the old company.

Although nobody can tell, I think they have been actively removing the stainless steel and hiding it from mush.  Is it shiny any more?  They get lighter and lighter, but they keep blowing the engines at launch.  This one launched some paper satellites to show that it can carry something.

When a trillion dollars is in play, weird things happen.  It is so cloaked in blackness that nobody can be sure of anything.  We can only watch, and see all those investors having fun.

ps it's a wonderful rocket, he's a genius, blah blah, don't kill me.


Heatless Heat

 Today is a paradox.  We have the Gulf plume coming over us, and yet, not a speck of heat energy.  This should be as hot as the last mini heatwave, but nada.



Europe is now getting our heatwave.  Hope they take lots of pictures.

In the video, which I didn't bother grabbing, we have swirls, and another indication that the Arctic mechanism is dead.  We have stagnant conditions, and we should be hot from solar heating alone, yet nothing.  So, June is a write-off, but we always have July for the pictures.

ps this total weirdness takes me out of the weather forecast game.  

ps I'm also thinking this is worse than I expected - a total Little Ice Age.  Not fun.