Like everything else, the Pacific Heat Engine collapses

 The backlash against the backlash against rationality continues.  That's an irrelevant point to highlight the collapse of the Pacific heat engine.

We always have some plumes sticking out.  These drift over and give us extra warmth, over that which is our due, due to stagnant solar heating.  If we just rely on stagnant heating, we are very cold indeed.  Without this mess of plumes, the temperatures stratify.  The bad thing about stagnant heating is that it all goes away in the first few hours of night.  Our night temperatures are our true 'ambient', and that is determined by ocean plumes.

All our storms have been cleared out by cold.

We have our usual incursion of warm Gulf air sneaking up the side of the mountains.  This will ensure another bout of storms.  We wake up to snow this morning.

I love to wake up to the smell of snow in April, smells like victory!  Not really.

Back to the backlash.  We have finished a wasted decade (or two) when the rise of Influencers wiped out all scientific progress, and the Scientific Method.  What did we get?  Lots of useless windmills and solar cells.  Computerization that anyone and their dog can wipe out.  All great stuff.  

The world always has great swings.  This is just a 30's swing against gatsby excess.  It never goes well.

ps omg!  I went out for the dog walk.  Apocalypse Now!  Full winter clothes, and I lasted 3 minutes walking into the snow and wind.  I'm still frozen.  This is the worst for all winter, but maybe I didn't go out for heavy winter storms....