[FRIAM] overshoot day

[Stephen Guerin]

Yesterday's microburst from Los Alamos over Otowi Smith's Hacienda with a
rainbow pointing to the 6' leprechauns yurt down canyon on the Rio Grande
:-)

https://node.redfish.com/Documents/cody/timeLapse/output/LosAlamos1/2023/214/LosAlamos1_2023_08_02_00_00.mp4

On Wed, Aug 2, 2023, 3:24 PM Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:

>
> On 8/2/23 2:55 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>
> I just noticed it was overshoot day, and just after the hottest July ever
> recorded.    Yay!
>
>
> I'll be mixing up a nice ice-cold (luke warm?) cocktail of shame with just
> a splash of Cassandrafruede (reminiscent of Absinthe?) at sundown today
> (spectacular when orange-tinted from the wildfire smoke and dust blown from
> drought-denuded areas)... While I pop the ice-cubes from the tray I'll
> remember the recent factoid from someone (McKibben?) that the annual carbon
> budget of most people in the third world is roughly that of an American's
> refrigerator with an Ice-Maker or a Brit's electric Kettle for twice-daily
> tea.  If I had AC I'd turn it down to it's coldest setting to spite my
> neighbor by belching superheated air into their AC air handler intakes...
> but alas I only have adobe walls and brick floors and lots of windows to
> absorb night-time coolth...   no fun in that!  <ahhh... the lingering
> aftertaste of Cassandrafruede!>
>
> The wycked hot here in NM finally broke somewhat for us yesterday with an
> hour of rain like the "good ole days" when every afternoon had a rainstorm
> starting in July to cool off the second half of the summer.   The crew down
> in the Bosque building a pumping station to move the water pumped from the
> Colorado Basin to the Rio Grande (San Juan to Chama) is busy belching
> diesel exhaust plumes and  throwing adobe-bricklets from their tires when
> they pull out on the highway to become ad-hoc speed control bumps for the
> Los Alamos commuters usually roar by at 80 in the 55mph "safety zone"
> morning and night.
>
> All the world is a circle?  Or is it a donut?  I think maybe I'm
> channeling Terry Pratchett?
>
> Cheers!
>
>
> https://www.overshootday.org/
>
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