Saturday, December 28, 2024

The physics review of 2023-24

I was just going to do 2024, but 2023 had the biggest Earth Physics surprise of my life (that's a bit much), so I have to start from there.


 

The world temperature plot was down in the dumps.


Suddenly the sea temp took off like a rocket.  I totally pooh-poohed this as a chart error.  Was I wrong!



nooa became all focused At the Wrong Spot!.  I didn't see it either.  We were still cold in Toronto, and Arctic spills continued.

For the summer, we had endless wildfire smoke.  blah.  I put out ocean current maps, but never looked at the far west Pacific.  I was an idjit.  


I was certain we would freeze. We froze on our Tahiti vacation.


And there is was, the Great Red Spot that heated our world.  When I glanced at the currents once, I saw a huge uniform current to the south, at the far west.  I never recorded it, darn.  

'23 closed out, and we had the warmest winter for a long time.  No ice formed on the cottage lake.  Everything I was blabbering about turned to ashes.

-- to be continued

ps. not doing '24.  Just decaying heat, and when I thought we would have a good 'Texas Buster' blob, the action has shifted over to the middle of the Atlantic.  Who cares?


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