It is here

[Jacob Bugge]

[Steve Fairbairn]

Wrong Wade. We’re talking about 0%C, 0%M, 0%Y, 0%K and below 0°C/32°F.

[Jacob Bugge]

Perzackly, to quote someone.

[tromboniator]

…0%K, ≤ 273.15°K

[Steve Fairbairn]

…0%K, ≤ 273.15°K

I think that should be 0°K = –273.15°C.

But It doesn’t need to be as cold as that. Not quite sure if It even can be as cold as that.

As a matter of fact I think it is incorrect to speak of °K. Just K will do the trick.

But seeing as how K and °C are exactly the same size and that 0°C = 273.15K, then I think It must’ve changed colour.

Solid black on two plates and 73.15% black on the third.

As we say here "Nú er það svart." Literally "Now it’s black" = Now we are in deep s**t.

Or are we getting sidetracked?

[Jacob Bugge]

As I read it, ... stand for 0%C, 0%M, 0%Y, so

…0%K, ≤ 273.15°K

means

0%C, 0%M, 0%Y, 0%K and ≤ 273.15°K

which is quite accurate (apart from the °K instead of K, but that is surely just to make sure that it is not a triple shot K print, but the opposite).

In any case I hope we are soon in deep s**w.

[tromboniator]

Jacob: K vs °K: Apparently that change took place without my awareness, the conference which made the change convening just after I had completed my last formal physics and geography coursework. You might think that somewhere in the intervening 45 years it would have come to my notice, but no dice. Please feel free, though, to maintain your above analysis of my usage. Also, I see that the correct figure is 273.16. The inaccuracy is in the conversion table in my computer's calculator. My brain had it right, but I believed the machine.

Steve: I was just restating your criteria in absolute terms.

Wade: Hard evidence only, please; and, by the way, no Photoshop!

[Jacob Bugge]

Peter, I was as surprised to see the K instead of °K as were you when I looked it up after Steve had pointed it out, and I assumed that I had just misremembered until read about the conference just now after your mentioning it.

About 276.16 here now, unfortunately, patches of brown and green starting to appear, hopefully another cover up on Thursday or Friday.

[tromboniator]

Ah. Jacob, I didn't understand about the K when Steve mentioned it. I only looked it up after your comment. You're right, Steve, thanks for educating me (yet again).

[Wade_Zimmerman1]

You ask any of them and I assure you they will swear there was snow that day.

Here in New York City we already had a snow storm in early November but as you can see it did not last long.

[Jacob Bugge]

It pretends to be here.

So much for having a great negative NAO value and 26 degrees below Chennai.

 

[Steve Fairbairn]

Ours has gone away again. Not a sight of It anywhere.

[tromboniator]

I'll have to read up on NAO, but later: music project has priority.

Ours is still here, crunchy and wet. Too gray and depressing for a photo today. Cow and calf moose in the yard, driving the dogs crazy.

[Jacob Bugge]

Now things are just beginning to look brighter here, with 30°bC, 1019.5 hPa, and NAOI -0.8 and deepening, maybe lasting well into March.

 

[Kar209]

pretty picture

[Jacob Bugge]

With the sufficient luck we have just started on our third winter this year; that is, if the NAO stays on our side (down) instead of going belly up as it has happened thrice over the last month.

As it appears, many cross the farmyard. Apart from the backtracking bigfootprints, there are many different made by paws, claws, and cloven hooves.

 

[Jacob Bugge]

The gentle beginning of the fourth winter this year. Seemingly it will last a bit longer than the third, maybe until the end or even into the next.

How is it up/over there?

 

[Steve Fairbairn]

Generally nondescript up here. This one averaged 55%K.

Some slight snow last week that came down brownish and covered the car and the house with mud.

We think it was volcanic ash from Eyjafjallajökull that got caught up in the high winds.

Hosing helped but there’s still mud on the ground. Maybe it’ll help the grass grow.

[Jacob Bugge]

How many words are there for (what feels like) snow in Icelandic, Steve (including different values of K and maybe even CMY)?

[Steve Fairbairn]

Not really so many.

Snjór, snær (rare), fönn (poetic), mjöll = loose snow, hjarn = hard crust snow.

Skafl = snowdrift

Mjallhvít = Snow White.

Reckon you need to go to Greenland. I believe they have dozens of words there.

[Jacob Bugge]

We were promised two lovely days with persoq and then nittaalaq, totalling some 10 inches of aput and up to a fresh gale to create a nice aniuvak here and there, maybe even a solid kimaugruk in the pass to keep everyone at home. But after just one day we are left with a calm greyness, no qanik and no ayak, a little anigruak on (some of) the branches and barely 1 inch of aput in the form of katiksunik, just to cover the old pukak, far from enough to create even the smallest natigvik, eventually to turn into akillukkak, then milik, then auksalak, then nothing. Just 20 miles away they have 4 inches, and further away they did get the 10 inches and all the fun.

So dreadfully little is happening here in the last week before the new day as you can see, and even less is likely to happen in the first couple of weeks to follow. This seems to be the very end. Oh wait, right now, after the photo, there is a very light apivoq (very) slowly forming nutagak right now.

 

[Jacob Bugge]

It is no longer here, the only whiteness being a light ghost show and the last shadow show.

I wonder how it is over/up there.

[Steve Fairbairn]

Nice nearly-springish weather up her.

Sunshine but still a chill in the wind.

Frost on the windscreen in the morning but it’s gone by around 9.

The grass is dusty because of all the ash that came with the last snow and they say that this March was the driest on record since 1949.

So we could do with some good heavy rain to clean things up.

[tromboniator]

Day before yesterday near -17℃, now at 3℃. It seems that we've had more days of melting than not for the past two months, yet still there's white slipperyness everywhere. Not particularly picture-worthy. We can do without the rain. No ash for a couple of years, I think.

[tromboniator]

It was spring yesterday…

[Kurt Gold]

You Ice Age people really need to go southwards.

In that current snapshot I replaced the original blue sky background with some greyish despair. Just to prevent you from grudging misery.