[FRIAM] overshoot day

[cody dooderson]

Forgive me for nitpicking but there have been some huge fires in western
Canada this year. For instance, this fire was 1.4 million acres
https://www.simtable.com/apps/fireProgression/output2023/BritishColumbia_G80280.html
.
I doubt the smoke from that blew down to the bay area though.




_ Cody Smith _
cody at simtable.com


On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 6:15 PM Stephen Guerin <stephen.guerin at simtable.com>
wrote:

> 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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