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[OmCheeto]

We're having such uncharacteristic weather here in San Diego. It's a relentless windstorm. No rain, just high winds. I have a bowl of water out for the feral cat that hangs out here, and I've had to dump it a few times today after it got clogged with dust, grit, and leaves.

I read this morning that California was supposed to get 10 trillion gallons of rain over the next week. [ref]
That sounded like a lot, so I did some calculations.
It comes out to 1/2 inch per day, everywhere.

 

[fresh_42]

I read this morning that California was supposed to get 10 trillion gallons of rain over the next week. [ref]
That sounded like a lot, so I did some calculations.
It comes out to 1/2 inch per day, everywhere.

I get 3.54 inch.

 

[OmCheeto]

I get 3.54 inch.

Excellent!

0.5 in/day * 7 days/week = 3.5 inches

ps. I expect some flooding.
hmmmm... I'm out of rice. How is this going to affect "Calrose" rice production? <google google google>
Make that, I expect more flooding.

This is interesting, the CA Rice Commission on Twitter has, IMHO, the best news coverage of what's going on in the region since I started following the Oroville Dam situation 6 days ago. What the heck has the national news been tweeting about, I wonder.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I read this morning that California was supposed to get 10 trillion gallons of rain over the next week. [ref]
That sounded like a lot, so I did some calculations.
It comes out to 1/2 inch per day, everywhere.

Yeah, it started to rain maybe a couple hours after I posted that, and it lasted well into the night. The sun came out this morning, but now it is raining off and on again. This is really good news with regard to our terrible, long drought, though the short term flooding is bad news.

 

[fresh_42]

0.5 in/day * 7 days/week = 3.5 inches

Da... I missed the time interval ... I was so busy changing gallons in $km^3$, $cm$ in inches and the American trillion in a European billion that I have forgotten this essential part.

 

[jim hardy]

Winter rains? hmmmm.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110119230522/http:/urbanearth.gps.caltech.edu:80/winter-storm/

Background on Massive Winter Storms

Beginning on Christmas Eve, 1861, and continuing into early 1862, an extreme series of storms lasting 45 days struck California. The storms caused severe flooding, turning the Sacramento Valley into an inland sea, forcing the State Capital to be moved from Sacramento to San Francisco for a time, and requiring Governor Leland Stanford to take a rowboat to his inauguration. William Brewer, author of “Up and down California,” wrote on January 19, 1862, “The great central valley of the state is under water—the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys—a region 250 to 300 miles long and an average of at least twenty miles wide, or probably three to three and a half millions of acres!” In southern California lakes were formed in the Mojave Desert and the Los Angeles Basin. The Santa Ana River tripled its highest-ever estimated discharge, cutting arroyos into the southern California landscape and obliterating the ironically named Agua Mansa (Smooth Water), then the largest community between New Mexico and Los Angeles. The storms wiped out nearly a third of the taxable land in California, leaving the State bankrupt.

The 1861-62 series of storms were probably the largest and longest California storms on record. However, geological evidence suggests that earlier, prehistoric floods were likely even bigger. There is no scientific evidence to suggest that such extreme storms could not happen again. However, despite the historical and prehistorical evidence for extreme winter storms on the West Coast, the potential for these extreme events has not attracted public concern, as have hurricanes. The storms of 1861-62 happened long before living memory, and the hazards associated with such extreme winter storms have not tested modern infrastructure nor the preparedness of the emergency management community.

 

[zoobyshoe]

That's amazing! I had never heard of those storms.

 

[jim hardy]

That's amazing! I had never heard of those storms.

My Dad was a weatherman in Miami. I remember his saying when i was just a little kid, before the space age: "I believe weather follows the sunspots, not so much the 11 year cycle as the 77 and 144. That's long enough nobody remembers. "

Information Age has changed our way of looking at things, we now have graphs and charts with just keystrokes . I guess we'll know in another few decades if he was right.

Dad marveled at the first weather satellites - he said "This completely changes weather forecasting. We used to rely on ship reports to find hurricanes , now we can see them."

We're in a great time to live, eh?

old jim

 

[fresh_42]

Would someone please, please be so kind and fix this da... double-slit hole!

 

[jim hardy]

Would someone please, please be so kind and fix this da... double-slit hole!

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Did i miss something ?

 

[fresh_42]

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Did i miss something ?

Not really, I only read for the hundredth time within the last weeks a thread title with a double-slit in it ... Time to get it fixed.

 

[Ibix]

Not really, I only read for the hundredth time within the last weeks a thread title with a double-slit in it ... Time to get it fixed.

Announcing the release of version 1.01 of The Universe. This is a bug-fix only release.

• A single electron now goes through one slit (fixes issue where it sometimes passed through both)
  
• Time now defined on null worldlines (fixes "no inertial frames at light speed" issue)
• Quantum mechanics interpretations now experimentally distinguishable
• Twins always remain same age
• Corrected issue where neutrinos intermittently exceed lightspeed; replaces "loose fiber-optic cable" workaround

We received a number of reports regarding the hemiptera, but these are behaving as expected and no fix has been applied.

Please report any further issues to the maintainers.

 

[WWGD]

Not really, I only read for the hundredth time within the last weeks a thread title with a double-slit in it ... Time to get it fixed.

It resulted in two separate threads in different forums, I think ;).

 

[WWGD]

Announcing the release of version 1.01 of The Universe. This is a bug-fix only release.

• A single electron now goes through one slit (fixes issue where it sometimes passed through both)
  
• Time now defined on null worldlines (fixes "no inertial frames at light speed" issue)
• Quantum mechanics interpretations now experimentally distinguishable
• Twins always remain same age
• Corrected issue where neutrinos intermittently exceed lightspeed; replaces "loose fiber-optic cable" workaround

We received a number of reports regarding the hemiptera, but these are behaving as expected and no fix has been applied.

Please report any further issues to the maintainers.

If you include Trump not elected and no Brexit, I am in.

 

[WWGD]

Kind of weird/frustrating: I finally overcame my difficulty in starting conversations with strangers. Only problem now is to have the conversation go beyond a trivial one-liner and a hmm response, after which it quickly dies out, some times in awkwardness.

 

[fresh_42]

Kind of weird/frustrating: I finally overcame my difficulty in starting conversations with strangers. Only problem now is to have the conversation go beyond a trivial one-liner and a hmm response, after which it quickly dies out, some times in awkwardness.

I asked women which gel they use under the shower. 99% answered Get-The-Hell-Outta-Here.

 

[fresh_42]

If you include Trump not elected and no Brexit, I am in.

Trump? He's just playing a pretty close Welsh Open final ...

 

[WWGD]

I asked women which gel they use under the shower. 99% answered Get-The-Hell-Outta-Here.

I went a bit further. But when they told me the brand, I asked them for pics to prove it , they always refused :(.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Watching this new show called "The Good Fight." Lawyer show. Very good.

 

[Astronuc]

I listened to an interesting conversation earlier today on "The Grandeur and Limits of Science".

Margaret Wertheim mentioned, "it’s often — when contemporary physicists write about the world, they talk about this as being a fundamental problem for reality. But it’s not a fundamental problem for reality. It’s a fundamental problem for human beings. The universe is just getting on with it." and followed with "And so I think the universe isn’t schizophrenic. It’s not having a problem. We’re having a problem."
http://onbeing.org/programs/margaret-wertheim-the-grandeur-and-limits-of-science-2/

 

[WWGD]

Told my boss about a problem with the data he asked me to analyze. Hope it will not hit the fan...EDIT: It went pretty well, I was able to finesse it.

 

[fresh_42]

I was curious and listened to some ABBA songs on Youtube labeled as (German version). At least five of them have been Swedish.
Who creates their title lines? And is it allowed to draw some conclusions on Californians?

 

[Psinter]

During the last week the moon looked pretty big and orangeish color.

 

[WWGD]

I can't understand why I keep eating ice cream and drinking iced water ( a tray-full of cubes) in mid-winter.

 

[dkotschessaa]

I can't understand why I keep eating ice cream and drinking iced water ( a tray-full of cubes) in mid-winter.

Are you trying to overclock your brain?

 

[WWGD]

Are you trying to overclock your brain?

Overclock? Sorry, don't speak Tampese (Tampanese?). More like overcluck.

 

[dlgoff]

I can't understand why I keep eating ice cream and drinking iced water ( a tray-full of cubes) in mid-winter.

When you're hot you're hot.

 

[WWGD]

When you're hot you're hot.

If we could only get a few of the local women to agree... :)

 

[dkotschessaa]

Overclock? Sorry, don't speak Tampese (Tampanese?). More like overcluck.

http://www.techradar.com/how-to/computing/how-to-overclock-your-cpu-1306573

 

[dlgoff]

If we could only get a few of the local women to agree... :)

One would do ...

 

[fresh_42]

I can't understand why I keep eating ice cream and drinking iced water ( a tray-full of cubes) in mid-winter.

Russian ancestry? Russians can't afford to wait for summer, and they love ice cream.

 

[WWGD]

Russian ancestry? Russians can't afford to wait for summer, and they love ice cream.

On one side , yes, but I have been trying unsuccessfully to learn how to do the Hopak for a while now.

 

[zoobyshoe]

It's psychological: you're wishing it was summer, so you're denying it's winter and acting like it is summer.

 

[Psinter]

The term economy, borrowed from Latin oeconomia, at the same time borrowed from the Ancient Greek οἰκονομία, which it meant in those times "management of a household".
Sources:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/economy#English
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oeconomia#Latin

So, how are you managing your household?

Me: I'd very much like to converse with the administrator of the house, please.

 

[dkotschessaa]

Oh, and for those who had any doubt, here is my Dino Selfie: