cottage report

 Cold wind coming. Colours this year are horrible. Don't pay money to see them. 

Lots of leaves gone. Very cold. 

Cold blobs start rolling in

 We're closing the cottage early.  We are back to possible snow on the Thanksgiving weekend.

Europe looks just as bad now.

Installed new induction Cooktop

 I've been tracking these things since before Covid.  I predicted that the price should fall, as production ramps up, and the recession digs in.

This is the Frigi Gallery induction cooktop.  It has temperature control, which is essential.  I think its down about 50%. since the two-buck addition of thermal sensors used to cost 1000 bucks more than without it.

Temp control is essential, since the induction is so powerful.  People complain about instant scorching.  It's so easy to throw on another cooktop.

Ambition for Canada

 

We are luckier than the UK, being close to the States.  The guy is talking about 'broad talent ambition" which results in successful start-ups.  The UK is trying to create a Japan miti, or US Darpa.  Usually, these things are a total failure.  That's because the 'narrow ambitious' go to government.

Any Toronto engineer with ambition goes to San Fran.  The number of Canadians in the tech scene is amazing.  The investors throw money at people, like gambling at the horse races.  Here, it is like Shark Tank, with very tight-fisted drunks.  But that's the whole Canada scene.  

The other thing is the huge tax burden.  We have millionaires, but hardly ever billionaires, who are not associated with a monopoly.  And no matter how broke we are, the social spending keeps going up.

ps. and of course, we have this problem.  All our banks are going to collapse when they finally come clean that housing has dropped more than 50%.  Maybe we'll need an election.

Spencer plot still hanging near the top

 

The other types of plots are showing a drop.  I have no idea what is happening, but this goes with the tide gauge.

I will attribute it to all the storms.  However, if the temps do not drop, then I'll go back to the drawing board.

ps. this may be just standard thermal decay, taking a long time.

Mixed air blobs make for a mess

 

This is the long version of 120 hours.  The three main forces affecting our weather now are:  Gulf plumes, Pacific air crossing the mountains, and Arctic blobs.

We've got them all here, at an equal share.

In other news, Northern Spain finally has rain!

Hopefully, this becomes more common.

ps I'm beginning to think that this is just standard thermal decay.  It takes a long time.

Fact checking weather sites

 These guys just follow the main thought.

Reference

They are declaring La Nina, with the muck on the Pacific belt.

What's fun is that they are declaring, out of the hat, that all that turbulence is 'standard' and caused by winds.

However, the winds are not going that way.

But, they can get no feedback.  So, our cold winter is all due to this.

ps. in reality, all that texture on the ocean temp anomaly chart is due to ocean currents.  It is against the religion of weather people to look at this.

really wild ocean currents these days.

ps. and the natgas traders are starting to look at this.  Price up for the year.

Cold blob swoops down on Toronto

 

Time for cold blobs again.  This one went down a different path, along the mountains.  It will sweep out the remnants of the hurricane.  I am expecting the cold blobs to hold their pattern for the winter.

Europe is quite cold right now, and I expect that to drain the natgas this winter.  I expected all of that last year, as well, and then the big heating event hit.