Ozone hole goes back forever

 

This is an excellent article in the art of making things up.  They found that the ozone hole existed before freon, and then blamed carbon tetrachloride "because it's there".

The physics hypothesis is that we always had it, and it is related to temperature.  During our cold cycles, nothing at all happens in the ozone layer, so no ozone is formed.

This was always my best example of "dogma over the Scientific Method".  nasa needed some drama, found one chlorine atom on a plane survey, and conjured up the whole freon disaster.  The funny thing is that they still had some scientists in the basement who followed the SM.  Those guys did an experiment in their atmospheric chamber, and published that no chemical reactions were possible under the extreme cold and vacuum-like conditions.  Hoo Boy!  They were destroyed, and the papers, which I once read, disappeared from the Universe.

After that, no more sm.

Nobody in Ottawa can pass the French test

 

In our family we have endless stories of true Francophones failing the official French test for more money.  This was another test.  What's wrong with flashing pubic hair, I say?

Philippines Earthquake not done yet, Venezuela Earthquake is finished

 This is a tale of two earthquakes.  They were the same in that they had shaking on basins and the pgv was mostly 20-40 cm/s except right on top.  I talk in absolute terms for 80-90% confidence, which is much more restrictive that most media.  As always, I expect that nobody will read this.

Forget the 'Double Tap Crap', this was a standard M8, 100 km long.  They always rupture in fits and starts, and this was well within the norm.  The USGS should not have declared it two earthquakes, a big math error, caused by AI.

Like I've said, the USGS has a model of two steel plates releasing energy, formulated during the steam era.  Totally wrong.  In fact, the rupture resembles an excavation into stressed rock.  The strength of the fault has always been near-zero, and it goes to zero in an earthquake.  I liken this to a recurring volcano.  They are finally starting to see my side, that the magma is resting in a solid container, formed by rock arching, or a hole in the stress.  The next outburst does not come from some sealed-off intake, but from the failure of that stress arching.  Easily measured, and they have done some.  I have the curse of always being right, and never believed.  All influencers are the other way round, with lots more money.

This is now the same for this earthquake.  All that crap about the fault 'nearing the highest stress in 1000 years' is crap.  In 100 years, there may be another earthquake down the railway tracks, but not here.  However, they are on a jelly basin, and must use screw piles, real concrete, and tied-in steel.

Not such a happy picture for the Philippines.  The mechanics of the stress distribution puts increased thrust on the next section, but not on the fault.  We can expect failure and whoosh goes the fault down the tracks.  This was the mechanism for the Christchurch earthquakes.

As for impact on a place already smashed, it might be little or none, or lots.  The seismic motions will be a tiny bit smaller, but many buildings are softened but unrated.  As with the other quake, everybody will go happy-happy into their 'undamaged' building, and smack!  Again, the only way to handle this is as I said with ven.  Also, follow my guidelines in my best-seller book: "So, You Don't Wanna be a Pancake".  Coming out soon.

State of the Oceans - June 29, 2026

 We have reached close enough to July to do this.  I have 3 steady readers because I stick to the Scientific Method.  Nobody else does, because they like to define themselves by dogma, which is a stated position by a celebrity.  The SM puts all the chips on the table for an experiment, and empires may fall.  No way anyone in power is going to do this.

The downside of dogma is that it drifts away from reality, as defined by the basic laws of physics.  You can always think you can fly by flapping your arms, but one day the odds-chickens come home to roost.

My main hypotheses for weather are:  We have a wildly convective atmosphere, including 'invisible' clear air convection.  No way we can have any sort of greenhouse effect.  It's like building a greenhouse without glass.

 The other is that ocean currents convect on their own, with 100 times the energy density of air.  They distribute the heat energy around the world, and the air just tags along.  The dogma has the air driving the currents.

This is the best plot to see what's going on.  The ocean currents have switched the feed to the equatorial belt, showing the start of a Major Ice Cycle (same as the Little Ice Age).  Under this new regime we had a major heating event in 23-24.  Since then we have had reverberations, getting smaller and smaller, and ending now.  You can see it all on this chart.

The heating events go down S-E.  This last one grazed the Nino Zone and flung up the curve.  The poor weather people totally missed the 23-24, and only snuck in references to it as an El Nino when it was done.  That's because it had a huge effect on this curve.

This last heat blob is breaking up.  There will be no great effect on the charts, which seems to be the definition of the day, for these things.  They will give a party, but nobody will come.

Even in the midst of the Little Ice Age, we had 2 weeks of summer.  The mechanics of a heat wave is the Sun overhead and no breeze.  Nothing to do with global trends.  However, the wipe-out of heat energy in the Pacific leads to stagnant pockets.

The currents change day to day.  The big reversal current is above the equator, and is carrying relative warmth (anomaly) but not very hot for the world.  The weather people made the 'Big Mistake' of overlaying an equatorial sea level anomaly over the hot zone.  Only out by a few hundred klicks.  You will never hear about it.

The state of the oceans means a very short, intense summer, followed by snow and cold that will make the last two years seem tropical.  The climate people will simply adjust their dogma, and all will be well.  There is nothing that could get them to admit they are floating on a cloud that is starting to freeze solid, and coming screaming down.  Their groupthink does not lead to a disaster.

A new Arctic blob sweeps clean

 

Enjoy a heatwave when it comes.  

Arctic air is sweeping Europe.  Still time for some pictures.

California is still cold.

The Arctic Ice Vortex keeps coming back.  Why won't it die?  Maybe summer is reduced to 2 weeks in July.  

ps The Last Heat Blob in the Pacific is nearly dead.  The world air temperature is diving.  But at long as we have pictures, we're golden.

Steampunk earthquake fantasy - part 2

 Ha, this gets a full post, but it really is an addendum.  The other 'Easter Egg' they gave us in the famous California report, is the holy treatment of peak acceleration.  This came from early film strong motion recorders that only put out acceleration as a body force, like gravity.  In other words, a pendulum.

This religious assumption probably cost the 30,000 lives in the Ven earthquake, and many thousands before that.  It is that you can determine structural loads by treating the earthquake ground motions as a body force, like tilting the building.  This is so wrong, I just grind my teeth.  But, as an engineer once said to me "How else can we operate?"

By using the Scientific Method with Physics!  Anyway, this system downplayed soft basins by a factor of 10 or more.  Oh, you are on a nice soft cushion that reduces the pga.  No need to design anything.  

And a million people die (maybe too much?).  What kills the building, my friend, is base shear.  This is directly correlated to peak ground velocity, or pgv.  No other indicator need apply.  We have a standard factor of 10 amplification of pgv on soft basins.  

I want world standards of 20 cm/s for 'riding it out untouched' and cracking at 40 cm/s and sides fall off at 80 cm/s.  Even 100 cm/s should leave most of the slabs supported.  All this is easy with steel and real concrete.  Guatemala does this, and it should be easy in the US drug supplier countries.  

This also goes against the Shake Table Industry, as evil as anything trumpy ever did.  Just add to the death count.

ps oh, and shout-out to growing out own Coca leaves in Canada.  The US drug demand has rendered all these countries non-operational.  We want a slice of that action!

ps this wonderful 'buildings are a pendulum' has given us soft-story condos all over the place.  Also, they will not find any example 'complex vibration modes' in the observations.

Life in the Fault Lane

 If you are interested in the conventional view of things, don't read me.  Everybody pushes things, and I push the Scientific Method with Physics.  Nobody does that because the essence of the sm is a hypothesis, and the pass/fail of experiments.  No institution wants to fail on 'explanations' that have sustained them.

These earthquakes have brought to light (to me) many 'myths'.  The USGS was founded because of the 1906 Sanfran earthquake, and a huge famous report.  I read that report.  The mechanics was based on a steampunk view of the world, and came as an 'explanation', not the sm.  You could not argue with this much weight in paper, and the signatures.

They called it the 'Elastic Rebound Theory', and went right to theory and not hypothesis.  Basically, they modelled the fault as two big pieces of steam steel pushed against each other.  The steam pistons activated, and stress built up on the crack.  Then it let go, like a boiler explosion.  The steel pieces whipped past each other and even overshot the zero stress spot, due to momentum.  Wonderful stuff, all great in a steam era.

If you reformulate in terms of a testable hypothesis, it has failed so many times that we should toss it out in the garbage of failed ideas.  This is just like NOAA's 'wind pushes the ocean currents', and NASA's "There's greenhouse glass in the atmosphere'.  

There no use presenting any of this, but I try.  There are many spinoffs from the usgs model, and one was the concept of 'early warning'.  This has bit the dust, but they need it to keep living.  On to the next earthquake.

ps this is as close as I go to California in my Grand Tour of the Ring of Fire.  Have fun everybody!

Venezuela Earthquake Fills In

 

Got this from one website, who got it from another.  You might as well just call this an M8 that ripped along the coast.  Forget the 'double tap' drama.  Damage was related to peak ground velocity (pgv) but no records yet.  They are just estimating.

I am interested in horrible damage from a measly 20 cm/s.  That happens with no steel and slime concrete.  If somebody got 100 cm/s and only lost the outer bricks, then that is amazing.  However, in general, I'm just seeing old Soviet construction here.  No steel, no cement powder.

I'm wondering what the minimum concrete strength for a building to just stand up.  Good concrete is about 5,000 psi, and a 'one bag mix' for fill might be 500 psi.  I suspect they used that.

Toronto on Fire

 When I was a kid, the heat waves were so bad that everybody started to get above-ground pools.  Then, the air conditioning came in, and nobody used the pools.

Europe is breaking up, and we'll move to Montreal, with no air conditioning in the brownstones.

The Pacific is weird and I'm following it.

El Nino leaves Europe and comes to Toronto

 Yeah!  The travelling El Nino show.  It's proof of climate change.

An Arctic flow is going to end the pretty pictures of French girls being hot.

We should get our heatwave now.  Good thing we have air conditioning.  I remember really horrible heatwaves of my youth, but nobody else remembers them.  This is proof of climate change.

An earthquake so cool, it's Chile

 

As we go up this coast, we encounter the straightest and smoothest subduction zones in the world.  Every one of these is kept clean by M9.5's or greater.  When one goes, they are all going to go.  

This is the home to the recent Chile earthquake, which was an eye-opener for me, one of the greatest learning earthquakes ever.  But just for me.  The world went 'meh'.

Chile has one of the best general earthquake codes in the business, and it is enforced.  No sand houses.  We hit 40 cm/s on the basin, and 80 cm/s right near the outbreak.  So neat.  Standard frame houses just got rumbled, people I know said it was fine.  However, they, too, have suffered from shake-table fantasy, and built lots of condos with soft stories and transfer slabs.  All turned into garbage by tilting and cracking.  Did you hear about that?  Nope.

At 80 they built so well that the buildings just fell over intact.  Not good if you have a grand piano in your condo.  

This has started my totally ignored vendetta against shake-table fantasy.  It's a bit like the feather duster against the brick wall.  But I have my fun.

- next up to the Caribbean.

You will notice these articles are getting cheaper and cheaper as I head to California, the Heart of Darkness, for earthquake engineering.  Be very afraid.

ps I now have a very strong incentive to stop this series.  Fear.  I have lots of AI's reading me who can't afford a cup of coffee.  I'm not going to poke the monster of earthquake engineering.  

Venezuela Earthquake Sat Pictures

 

There are a lot of pictures.  With 50,000 missing, I increase my death estimate to 30,000.  As with Armenia, the ratio of deaths to injury will be out of this world.

Lots of the mid-story buildings were still standing.  Are they liveable?  Maybe not.  That would mean 100% of housing wiped out.  However, if people can get out, it meets the code intention.  I have to assume the standing buildings have steel.  There is no steel in the pancakes.

All the low buildings look wiped out.  This is like the India earthquake, but with no single-standing houses.

However, without my handy-dandy 2-buck accelerometer (imagination), we can't tell anything about the standing buildings.  I suspect the next earthquake will flatten them.

The weirdest thing for strike-slip (horizontal shear) is that there are no aftershocks.  This more resembles a continental thrust earthquake.  If I had any coffees, I would bet on an M8 finishing the run.  However, as always, the uncertainties in the probabilities overshadow the odds themselves.  In other words, a sucker bet.

As comparison, look at the Phil earthquake

This is normal for an edge earthquake.  Does it mean anything?  Nope.  Just as much chance to complete the sequence.  After a month or so, the odds go down to the regional odds before.  An earthquake does not change those odds.  All those people who thought an earthquake 'relieves the stress' are foo-foo.

Put a Ring of Fire on it - New Zealand

 

We could skip nz and just call it Mini-Japan, but for one unique thing.  It has a ripped-off slab of continent to bugger things up.  That's right, the lost continent of Zealandia.  It's full of mermen and ancient civilizations (Stop the fantasy!).  Ok, nothing interesting down there.

Except it is the home of my favourite earthquake zone - The Christchurch Basin!  Remember, we talked about 'learning earthquakes'?  This is one of the best, except nobody learned anything, because earthquakes are so institutionalized that to learn something new is to admit failure with the old.

I loved this earthquake.  They had a policy to just give money to victims, so they all buggered off to Australia.  Does anybody live there anymore?  They did so many things wrong, and now it doesn't matter, because they did it all again for Phil and Ven.

Phil is a twin to this earthquake, and we will get the 'double tap' as well.  The earthquakes line the basin, and mountains go up and the basin goes down.  I think it is a giant sag pond caused by the shear of Zealandia, but who knows?  Just like Phil, it's deadliness was caused by a long return period.  They used to have beautiful old brick houses.  For me, the most famous learning experience was their one office tower which was 'cleared' by the old farts, and then collapsed with the second tap.  I learned a lot, nobody else did.

We are going to get lots of these, now that the Ring is alive again (fantasy!).  

- next, up the other side - Chile!

ps - we're finally into summer.  Writing will stop unless somebody totally different buys me some coffee.  Too bad that Chile is the most significant non-learning earthquake of all!  (stupid teaser).

Where Arctic Elephants Go To Die

 Finally, we get to July.  This will be our only bit of summer.  We'll complain, and then say "Where did it go?"  The Arctic Ice Machine, which gave us a very long winter, is finally breaking up.

With the Pacific out of action, this has kept us cool throughout June.  Soon we will have our Death Valley moment.  The difference is that we have moisture in the air, so if it gets too hot, we get the thunderstorms.  That makes the only break from the stagnant air, and is the power of convection, which is ignored in fantasy.

The heat blob has broken up, and the currents have become a two-headed snake.

The return current has decided to veer up north, and get lost.  We have a very deformed El Santa-o.

ps Verry Scary, kids

ps ha, ha, they were forced to change the headline by the warmies

Earthquakes in Middle Earth

 As before I will talk in an expansive BBC fantasy tone, and the pesky physics brackets will correct me.

Middle Earth, for me, is the zone between Japan and New Zealand.  The Good Tectonics Guy gave up all thought of clean lines for this area (pure chance).  Directly opposite is the Caribbean Giant Thumb, so maybe there is something about the middle.

Anyway ME is a magical place (comon'!).  It's the only place I've looked at that has two oceans subducting at each other.  Over at India, the oceanic plate jammed the whole subcontinent at Asia, and formed the Himmies, but here, the Indian Ocean thinks it can push around the Pacific.  

The two plates dive beneath the earth and cannot give each other a punch in the nose.  That's because their feet are too long and meeting on the 'down low'.  (subducting plates collide).  That whole zone is the bubble-froth of the two plates fighting it out.  Will one stay on top?  Who knows?  Lots of volcanoes and lots of interior earthquakes.  We saw the Phil earthquake recently.

This zone is a mess, and you can't predict anything with it.  Sorry.  However, the inhabitants should expect an earthquake at any time.  Again, the return period is a few hundred years at any one spot.  This is the worst, as people fall asleep at the switch.  If you have a big earthquake every 50 years, that's 'living memory' and you get "Old granpa said put steel in everything.'

- next New Zealand

ps - getting sleepy.  I need more people to buy me a coffee.

Ring Around the Ring of Fire

 Everybody who lives around the RoF, is going to get something in their lifetime.  Might just be a 50 foot tsunami.  Next is Japan.

You can't get prettier subduction zones than here (very active).  

Zooming in to 'nuclear land' Fukoshima (whatever), you see a wonder of the ages (very active subduction zone).  We know from Japanese records how often these things go.  A big M9+ just tends to rip on the smooth arc, and doesn't want to take the S-bend.  The next place on the list (same odds as anywhere else) is Tokyo with a fine M9.  

Like Phil, there is a captured basin in the middle, where the action is slower.  Doesn't mean anything, a devastating earthquake was under Kobe, the black spot in the middle.  Since the whole area is being squeezed and pulled, we can get earthquakes anywhere.  Kobe suffered from a shallow M7, like Ven, with high pgv.  I never saw the charts for that, but it must have been above 40 cm/s.  Since they tend to make their houses out of paper, with open fire pots, the fires were something.

The Japanese don't talk much, but I can usually get charts.  I have no idea how they are doing with the state of earthquake building, so we'll find out with the next earthquake.

- next Middle Earth

El Santa is Coming to Town

 On July 1, we will celebrate 'El Santa Day'.  or some country's day.  This is maximum sun over the N hemi, and should be the hottest.  Only if there are no ocean breezes.  Then it sets up a 'heat lock' which has the same physics as an 'Ice Lock'.  All due to stagnant air, which is caused by having no energy in the Pacific.

I hate to tell the kiddies this, but El Santa isn't real.  It's a made-up construction to support the weather and anxiety industry.  No need to buy toys, just take pictures of hot people.  

What they thought was the 'Coming of the Hot Sled' was just a left-over blob that is breaking up.  Hardly anything left of it now.

This is the definitive indicator of a heating event.  There is nothing else.  It's going down.

Very sad to report the tropics are falling like trumpy's popularity.

The good news is that it doesn't matter in July.  Always hot everywhere.  Stagnant air forms a big Death Valley, and doesn't tell us anything.  

ps lots of popularity today, but no coffees.

ps I mucked up the graphics.  The above is the tropics, and this is the world.

The Pacific Ring of Fire is On Fire - Part 1

 

Nothing better for attracting coffees is to start the myth that the Ring of Fire is a living entity.  We will have a grand tour, with my expansive, interesting voice.  Physics is relegated to brackets.

We start with the magnificent spectacle of Alaska, with it's clean, giant tear in the Earth (subduction zone).  All of these zones must produce M9's every 300 years or so to maintain their bright, shiny appearances (clean trenches).

We haven't had much action in the past hundred years, so we are 'due' (random clustering).  The M9's are thousands of kilometres long and must always stay on a smooth section of the railway track. Unlike other myths, these faults are weakness zones, and do not 'produce' earthquakes.  They just go with the flow of the stresses around them (strain accumulators).

Looking closely, we have the beautiful clean cliffs of the subduction zone.

And here is the muck of the Cascadia zone.  (sediment).  They always go 'Big Bad Cascadia' but they are full of it (probably 1000 years).

Moving on over, we have the Tsunami Shotgun.  This is over by Russia, and when it shoots its load, it drowns the whole Pacific (large tsunami).  This is what really happened in 1700, not Cascadia.  Both sides go at the same time, and I don't know what happens.  Honestly, when this blows, forget the high land, it isn't high enough.  

- next is Japan

The Arctic finally runs out of juice

 Toronto will soon get to join in the Heatwave Party.  Even in the coldest part of a Major Ice Cycle, we'll always have July.  

July is the time you might as well just go with the whole climate thing.  

I'm so happy to see some warmth in the forecast, that I give up on physics.  I don't think I'll find anything interesting on the recent earthquake.  It's not Taiwan, and everybody covers up.

ps

I have a headache from all my earthquaking yesterday, so I'll just laugh at all this.

Who wins the Golden Trumposity, Phil or Ven?

 We have had two corruption earthquakes in a row.  These are when you finally notice that there is no steel in the concrete, and the concrete looks like Brownie Mix.  I was impressed that even Guatemala forces steel in the construction of their very weird peasant cabins.  The people only have a cabin on a very small piece of land and the only way to expand for the grandkids is to go up.  Thus, we have endless needle towers.  Good thing there is steel in the columns.  I have to assume that they tie in the slabs or the flooring, whatever they use.

The point was that it is obvious when building uses steel, and fairly thick reinforcing, not the few strands in the Turkey earthquake.  Even when hit with 100 cm/s, lots of steel and tied slabs results in something that you can rescue people from.  There is no PGV that should result in a pile of dust.

Yet, that is what we have.  The Chile earthquake cracked and tilted soft-story condos at 40 cm/s.  This makes the buildings unliveable, but everybody gets out.  At 80 cm/s the whole building tips over, perfectly together.  This should have been Ven, with their oil fortune.  But, not a speck of steel anywhere.

Of course, the early pictures just show the disasters.  I had to squint for the background to see undamaged buildings in Phil.  Nothing yet for Ven, maybe some drone shots needed.

The mere fact of one building without steel shows the failure of traditional earthquake engineering.  All this damage was high-velocity 'fling' or base shear, and not any 'resonance' damage.  You can tell I think that earthquake engineers are flakes, and that's why only 3 people read me.

These earthquakes 'hammered' the buildings.  All this engineering crap with shake tables is crap.  The concept of 'soft story' condos is a creature of the shake table.  The Chile earthquakes showed this, but nothing changed.  However, I don't think we will get any 'critical' reports, since everybody has their iron in the fire, and wish to cover up things.

There is no malice in this.  All these people are stand-up guys.  Just trying to make a living.

ps the AI also mentioned that the earthquake dampers were overwhelmed.  That's another silly thing that comes from shake table fantasy - no physics.  You can get the hint that I think earthquake and weather people are exactly the same.  Whatever floats their boat.

ps I am now calling Phil and Ven to be identical earthquakes in terms of ground velocity and 'no steel'.  Ven had a bigger exposure and death count may exceed 10,000, because nobody got out.

Venezuela Earthquakes M7.2 and 7.5

 Right on top of each other.

Not a lot of aftershocks, but this is the bottom of the Caribbean Push and most likely ripped to those far small aftershocks.

The fault mechanism is pure strike-slip along that fault.  An M7.5 should be 200 km long.  The fact they are located right on top of each other shows sparse seismometer coverage.

The big earthquake you are thinking of is the 1967 Caracas earthquake, which struck on July 29, 1967, at 8:00 p.m. local time. While it occurred just before the 1970s, its catastrophic impact heavily shaped Venezuela's building codes and urban history heading into that decade.

That's the big one I remember that corrupted earthquake engineering for the next decades.  That's because some damage was noted to be associated with building 'swing'.  That started the whole 'response spectrum' thing, which has given Toronto soft-story condos.  Blah

These earthquakes are bigger and assumed to be on the same fault.  That gives a very short return time, and so the Caribbean is moving faster than some people thought (me).

You can see the straight line of this fault, so it is ripe for an 8 or 9.  But not in any 'anxiety sense'.  M 7's are big enough.

No steel and this area was already cleaned out by an earthquake.  I think this will be a fine case of 'softening', or buildings softened by the previous earthquake, with nothing apparently wrong.

Don't expect any instrument recording, looks the same as the Phil earthquakes, about 20 cm/s.

This sort of thing is a good money-making anxiety machine.  We've had a huge interval where I was so bored with no earthquakes, that I went to the climate-hype machine.  blah.  These are just random clusters, sometimes nothing, sometimes lots.

The Japan earthquake is nothing.

ps at least the Phil slabs held to pancakes.  This was just Armenian Dust

I would hate that this is just 20 cm/s which is a crime, but I think it is.

ps Caracas pancaking at 25-40 cm/s  On top of the break-out over 130 cm/s which throws the instruments.

ps they are saying Phil earthquake at Gen Santos was 40-60 cm/s

ps earthquakes were really on top of each other, deep to shallow.  Combined effect maybe an 8.

Super El Nino Roars to Life

 Those are the headlines.

You can see the little heat lump is decaying.

No life in the world picture.

The tropics are really sad, so the real title is 'Roars to Death'.  

Earthquakes Galore

 

Quite a list of earthquakes on the email this morning.  I'm at the cottage, so it will take me a while to get to them.  I expect to see some steel in Ven, since this was the location for a big learning earthquake 50 years or so ago.

ps sorry, the two of us had the 4-year-old grandson with us at the cottage, and now, I don't have a thought in my head.  Good thing I don't make a living on this.

Cottage Report

 Very cool, water is ice cold.  Not many bugs.

Stopped to pick strawberries, they are at their peak, large, juicy and sweet.

Europe Heat Lock

 If the tropical plumes are weak, and the Arctic is calm, we get 'locks'.  This is static or stagnant air that is extremely hot or cold.  This summer I was expecting a heat lock for Toronto, but we only got a small pocket in Europe.

In July, the sun is overhead, and can create a 'solar furnace', or the 'Death Valley Effect'.  I have no idea as to the detailed physics of this, but you can see it on the ocean plumes chart.

It just stays there.

The northern red isn't really anything because it's not that hot.  Europe is the only place for pictures now.  There was some mention of Asia, but I don't see it.

I know your all saying 'When do we get one of those?'.  Tough luck, looks like the Arctic is doing the 'Oops, I did it again.' dance.

This dance is bringing rain to the West, when I was expecting the start of the 300 year drought.  Who knew the Arctic Ice Machine would keep going all year?