Luxury everywhere, but shoved into a catering truck

 

That's the trouble with everybody wanting to kill you.  No gold toilets for the trumpybutt.

The Lion of Winter

 

I've got a cold from the grandkid.  That age, the Bubonic Plague is a sniffle.  We now have the end of Summer, and my one-second swims at the lake.  

It's very funny that this is warm air for the Arctic.  

We have a very solid front, but not the usual mechanism for winter.  This was caused by some Pacific air leaking into the Arctic.  Neat.

ps the Pacific heat blob continues to surprise, but with no heat energy.  All the world charts are staying up, but we are cold.

ps since this is Pacific air, it is just late August weather.

ps lots of press about July heat in NA.  Caused by stagnant air.  The warmie press is happy for now.

Deep Columbia M7.4 earthquake

 

This is an 'every day' earthquake for this region. It was quite deep and looks like 20 cm/s on the surface.  Most likely 5 cm/s on rock.  People are generally situated on deep soil basins or valleys.  Any size of earthquake can get them going.  They should have better construction, but who knows?

ps their site is all pga, and I can't find pgv