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Occasional Thoughts on Climate Change
Typhoon Tip replied to donsutherland1's topic in Climate Change
Yeah...don't disagree. I'm tempted to summarize your thoughts here by saying that real intelligence isn't being exceptionally good in a narrow discipline. It's quite intuitive that the "relational database" is perhaps hugely more intelligent than the sophistication in the data tables. Just quick metaphor. Point being the relational aspect stops the over application specific finding..etc But in my discourse here I'm also venturing into the ramification of providing information to those that don't know how to objectively consume it - that's a problem with just giving data out. January 6 is an example of a segments of population gaining access to information, not judging in properly, than working en masse. We could tire of writing specific examples that point out the risks of giving information to basically .... idiots. Lets not mince words. The lovable Idiocracy of civility at large! -
Occasional Thoughts on Climate Change
Typhoon Tip replied to donsutherland1's topic in Climate Change
LOL ... yeah, sorry... the other aspect triggered me .. But that doesn't have much analysis. It's a brief homage or outright complaint about taking data in quadrature and perhaps over applying its significance? heh, more in line of what I was talking about, tho. So I launched... Much of my rhetoric and diatribe comes down to a simple sort of reflection. Vast amounts of data and access to information doesn't make someone or an institution necessarily very smart. We live in an era where said vastness is already incomprehensible for lacking the the ability in the audience. And the "institutions" we are creating out of it are not very intelligent, most probably because of that. ( as an aside, a glaring example of one in a few ways in which human innovation has outpaced evolutionary built-in checks and balances; I once mused long ago but still find myself coming back this upon occasions like this conversation - the greatest natural disaster to have ever befallen this planetary history might actually turn out to be the rise of human innovation) I mean I understand the poster's sentiment to have given a broader spectrum of it all upfront, and not after it has passed through a narrow analysis ... or possible bias lens..etc... However, I don't know if that helps. Because there's a bigger problem with humanity whence exposure/consumption of waves of assumptive crushing new information isn't being properly handled. There are evidences abounding as to the ramifications in doing so. -
Occasional Thoughts on Climate Change
Typhoon Tip replied to donsutherland1's topic in Climate Change
That's opening a Pandora's box of "sociotechnological" ramifications ... holy shit! In a simplified ... hugely, hugely reductive idealistic sense... yeah, data that effects/affects everyone gets to be seen by everyone, with expediency, upon its very emergence - the only restrained factor being the communication time it takes to get the information to 8+ billion eyes and ears... Yay! What happens when you subject the population background density, one understandably characterized by limited or narrowed intelligence scope just for shear lack of previous exposure and/or education, certainly lacking any wisdom thru common experience, to the vastness of data outside their perspective frame and natively derived belief systems? Let's spell it out. F E A R The rest is academic. Fear and histrionic triggers 'compulsion' of reactionary response at worse. At best, hasty judgement. Look around us... Oh, I dunno... maybe paranoia and bad judgement..etc might say drive a society into voting into a dark triad personality convicted felon ruler, into the most powerful post known to modern humanity - and I'm not using this to make a political statement with this.. it's just a fact of circumstance we are all in - find a fucking cause for that predicament. People are in the process of mass-hysteria proving that aliens are walking among us based on some sort of "plausible" explanation of the last 5 to 7 years of Pentagonia released informatica on UAP's ...must just be a neuro-linguiestic preparatory course work to some big reveal that doesn't have a prayer at being either real...or if so, is not likely to be very big. People are lusting for some sort of overarching explanation for all this information they are too challenged to effectively categorize in any objective spectrum. Even if 90% of humanity had IQs of 120+ and en masse PHD's... the shear amount of incoming stimulus and information far, far exceeds brain capacitance at this point in evolution. It's probably why the savior thinkers among the various walks of society are beginning to cave themselves ... We can digress from here a lot of ways.... but if all this going to end well? It will be on the other side of (probably) narrowly avoided end scenario. -
Occasional Thoughts on Climate Change
Typhoon Tip replied to donsutherland1's topic in Climate Change
Speak of the devil... "Oceans near record heat again as El Niño conditions begin to build" https://phys.org/news/2026-05-oceans-el-nio-conditions.html https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/?dm_id=world2 -
It's also been going on since last October, too. All but one month, which is arguable anyway ..., were showing a plaguing cold anomaly, either in scalar extreme when not relative to the whole planet, situated over the eastern N/A latitudes .(.aka, us ) since late last autumn. I've been posting them since mid winter. NASA releases them around the 10th... so April should be prepped soon. I would not be shocked and in fact expect to see this has continued. We may still be "above normal" ... or not. But if we are, we will likely be still cooler than everywhere else.
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it's a winter pattern in the curvature/geometric orientation, but the sun's forcing it's will ... such that the former is doing so around spring hydrostatic and non-hydrostatic heights. It's been this way all spring thus far. 80 F? doesn't matter... that's just the higher relative hydro and non hydro heights. And the fact that it never lasts longer than a day, no sooner and there's frost on the car tops so quickly - it's like a cutter pattern in January, just dong so with spring heights. Below is being forced by some sort of background/non-linear forcing that we've been plagued with for weeks. It's been the resting/return state ... unrelenting. We're still in winter. We need to get away from this... These blue hydrostatic height lines keep laze faire drooping down as we're speeding toward the solstice and it's gotten rather anachronistically late. We don't have to be 87/63 ... But, lows both predominately and pervasively < 40F, even preceding "warm" afternoons (fake warmth that feels like it's bleeding out) is not going the right way and are just numbers and sensible appeals being created by a zombie winter baseline, hauntingly late. This, while the world is presently in 3rd place warmest ever (relative to date/CC).... too. zomb!
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Occasional Thoughts on Climate Change
Typhoon Tip replied to donsutherland1's topic in Climate Change
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-rapidly-antarctic-ice-shelves-global.html -
Interesting article ... scientists having pitted AI against SRES model systems. It inspires new research ideas for me where this could just be a start. But in so far as what it achieves, the basic finding is that AI is under-selling extreme events, performing demonstratively worse than standard physics-based SRES modelling - particularly with intensity handling. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aec1433
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might be a dangerous heat wave toward the end of the month
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I know ...but that's the tip off. I mean, there's only so much Earth can do. haha
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Ha.... better than "flawless" that's a neat trick... But you know, in quantum mechanics there can apparently be to concurrent states so ... maybe you can have both perfect and perfect Haven't looked at the weekend yet
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It's -SAD, or "summer SAD" in psychobabble, Scott. (he/she is not the only one I suspect suffers that in here )
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no matter what the species... they're called 'widow makers' for a reason. heh
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Thursday's a top 10 ...maybe top 5 day if using these raw FOUS grid numbers ( NAM). 7 kts NW down sloping compression under +3 or +4 850 mb. Mixing probably limited to 900 or 875 but with unadulterated early solar max irradiance at 100%, the sounding will been dry air unstable to 900 feet or so and it will be warmer than standard adiabat in the lowest layer That's approaching flawless.
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Norway is a "soft" hard maple wood? What were the circumstances behind the felled tree ? I happen to like the spring flower blossoms of the Norway - they have a nice aroma that reminds me of spring. It sort of fades into Lilac season... It's probably just sentimental nostalgia from having grown up with them. I just didn't have any reason to be aware of any issues with them. They're trees. Pretty yellow and orange pallets in the autumn.
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70 so far the wind's a no show here. Perhaps we have a thinly stable layer just yet...
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well sign me up
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Not sure about "big" per se... but I agree. I explained this yesterday/why... at the time, the signal is/was mostly numeric, with some hint in the actual spatial synoptics of the general ensemble means. The operational models were, and in some cases still are, lagging a bit on that. The 00z operational Euro's extended is now just detecting the change. First to do so. It's got some spuriously oddly wrapped cyclones in the interim running up where it shouldn't but removing those and normalizing out those daily aspects that look engineered by the run .. the height changes paint an 80/60 day-night regime from IND-BOS, in real seasonal move. We'll see if the others begin to do so.
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Not sure it matters as an augment or not but it may be worse than usual. It seems we've been through an unusually proficient upwelling circumstance along the interface water where the Labradorian flow abuts the warmer Atlantic. Those 'tuck' waters running parallel to the coast out there are impressively colder than normal according to this source: https://climatereanalyzer.org/wx/todays-weather/?var_id=sstanom&ortho=1&wt=1 so yeah...intuitively any S or even SSW flow is unusual doctored. I wonder if this also the case NW Pacific. Because from the vantage provided above, ...we are uniquely cold abused. F'n weird... air and sea since last October is like a cold targeting attack right here
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And here we are ... 63+ already. Full sun. Bit of a breeze but we're probably making 74 for a high so that won't be much of a factor. Tomorrow's warmer yet... So it was 53 here yesterday. Dry though. Grading is subjective silliness but will play ball for a miniute and say it was a C day. Today is an A.
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The operational models, all of them ... are lagging behind the mid month warm signal that both the numerical indices, and the extended range ensemble synoptics ( all three) suggest. They are flipping the script after ~ 12th to 15th in there, but the oper versions are feeling pretty strongly that a winter pattern is most appropriate and likely during the entire summer of 2026 as we continue to face an inevitable GW future... The operational versions are oblivious. Reloading a winter mocking pattern foot. They're stuck. It's gotta end at some point... So I guess we'll see.
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see...I think it's really just whether the sun is shining for a lot of return engagement in this social media. I've come to find over the years there's a coherent increase in the complaint rate based on whether that is the case. Less about temperature and more about sun. Cloudy and dry.... 'top ranked shit day' this and that. All complaints more than just seem to settle off if the sun blasts through south facing windows I have a stretch of cedar fencing coming in tomorrow ...I had to go out and prep the property line; pretty nasty job toiling in contaminated dirt and old human detritus. This is kitty corner to an urban setting so it's not like rooting around in nature's regolith and bucolic Earth. Pretty sure I was turnin dirt and exhuming plastic fragments from 1972 back there. Gross. But I can say...dry and cloudy at 52 F? It was a helluva bargain over having to do that toily task if were 80 F and humid. ho man. it's all relative I guess
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Just be thankful those model solutions from 10 or so days back failed. They had us heading into some kind of a 2005 May redux ... Tomorrow at about 4pm will be like a completely different universe. mid 60s to lower 70s, with partly to mostly sunny. Altho probably a tad breezy for some tastes. Tuesday could be 80... At no time in the 2005 May ordeal did we even see 50 spanning that multi-week captivity.
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so, tomorrow we'll be above normal... Not thinking the low dunnite's too cold? The 'core" of the coldest air is passing thru right now. Wind looks to stay up ...defaulting to dry WAA. Has a "steady or slowly rising" vibe there I guess. Then tomorrow, good WSW mixing under surged 850 to 900 mb layer (-3 to +5) probably sends non-south coast tainted HFD-BED areas close to the adiabat. Looks like mostly sunny. 74-ish. Same is true for Tuesday, only add 7 or 8 ... just spit ballin' here based on a cursory eval of charts. But case in point to what I was just saying to John. We're heading into a couple of days that will try and hide the abuse over the last week's piece of overall shitness
