Thursday, December 21, 2017

All's Cold on the Northern Front

Britain seems to be the last of us to get blustery, wet, cold weather.  It's coming from weak Atlantic plumes, that should give up soon.  Our weak mid-Pacific plumes have all died.  Now we are into very cold weather.

The physics of the plume is very interesting.  First, any injection of one fluid into another forms a plume.  But how does this air get injected like it is coming from a nozzle?  That's atmospheric physics which was killed by fanatic warmies and ozoners.  Nobody on the Guardian com-board can believe such a fantastic conspiracy.  But it really wasn't a conspiracy, it's just that physics is expensive, and talk is cheap.

The warm water currents create the low pressure channel for the strongest air plumes.  They follow the current until they bloom out.  This is happening in the Southern Hemisphere.



The mechanism for ice advances is simple.  There is an ocean current change, all the heat transfer to the north is stopped, and ice builds.  It catches like a forest fire (cold version) when the ice and snow stays all summer.  We are not going into this for another 1000 years or so because the land is still sunk down from the last one.  However, the fundamental physics for this is not being done.

Toronto is going cold and our temperatures track the global charts almost exactly.

ps.  Yeah, a white Christmas, first in a long time.

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