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Sunday, 28 May 2023

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Mid-Summers Night Stagnant Air 

Ontario-geofish [23:11:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (36 visits) info
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 We've started heating up like a kettle of fish.This is our fine summer weather from now on.  No sweeping air from the Pacific, just a thick stew. We'll just get hotter and hotter, and may get rain when those weak Arctic blobs meet listless southern air.  Yeah!  Dust off the air conditioning or go to the cottage.  These were the conditions in the late 50's where everybody in Toronto got a

State of the Oceans - May 28, 2023 

Ontario-geofish [19:54:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (28 visits) info
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 The new ocean current maps just came in, and this article follows the previous one, This is the whole Pacific.  We have broken convection cells that aren't transporting anything.  You can see the pinchout and eddies, where the current reverses, and nothing beyond that.This is close-up, of Action Central, where the Great Splotch lives.  It is very disorganized, almost stagnant, so no cold

Toronto Garden Report 

Ontario-geofish [18:36:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (30 visits) info
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 Very weird weather for the garden.  The cold nights may have stunted some things.  Very few cherries and pears, but lots of apples.  Very dry, and my soaker hose system is always dripping.  In the [...]

El Nino Cometh 

Ontario-geofish [15:43:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (42 visits) info
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 I learned a lot with my past week of flubs.  First, the 'Great Red Splotch' is real, in an odd sort of way.  The base map of the average shows a huge cold spot there.  During all the normal times of the [...]

FOSSIL BIRDS FROM SOUTHERN VANCOUVER ISLAND 

ARCHEA [00:23:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (203 visits) info
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Stemec suntokum, Sooke FormationThe diving bird you see here is Stemec suntokum, a Fossil Plopterid from Sooke, British Columbia, Canada.We all dream of finding new species, and new fossil species in [...]

BLUE JAYS: KWASKWAS 

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If you live in North American, there is a high probability that you have seen or heard the bird song of the Blue jay, Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758).Blue Jays are in the family Corvidae — along with [...]

UK - land of eternal hope 

Ontario-geofish [15:08:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (27 visits) info
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 Everything shows continued cold, and the surfers are in heavy wetsuits.  Yet all the headlines are just about the 'coming' heat wave.  Just like 'Brexit Works'.  I have found they have lowered their [...]
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