Merry Christmas Everybody!

Posted: December 24, 2010 by tallbloke in solar system dynamics

Seasons Greetings from a cold and snowy UK. This year’s Christmas card is a satellite photo of the UK, which says it all:

Stay safe and warm wherever you are, and have a great time over the winter holiday.

Cheers

Comments
  1. Douglas DC says:
    December 25, 2010 at 3:09 am

    Here in NE Oregon, our turn in the Barrel’s coming by next week. The Polar Express had picked up a few extra cars in Siberia and it’s heading south…
    Merry Christmas to all!

  2. Joe Lalonde says:
    December 25, 2010 at 10:19 am

    I have a meter and a half of snow before winter started here with record breaking snow in the area in Ontario, Canada.

    Merry Christmas to All and to all a good night!!!

  3. Tim Channon says:
    December 25, 2010 at 5:07 pm

    Expect to hear about flooding in Ireland (maybe), England and Scotland as rain melts snow, a blast of jetstream.

    Few days of that and assuming the models are right we then get east winds. As usual the models mess up when there is blocking so the jetstream has been coming for some time, actually stalled west of Ireland.
    No guarantee it will move but seems likely.

    Based on US models, not Met Office, this is privately done and interesting stuff

    http://www.metvuw.com/forecast/forecast.php?type=rain&region=uk

    Usually some magnificant photos on the home page there.

    Links to a mountain of met resources is here
    http://www.weathercharts.org/

  4. Adolfo Giurfa says:
    December 25, 2010 at 9:24 pm

    Wow!….the changing magnets of the earth´s homopolar motor will change our future!

  5. Tenuc says:
    December 26, 2010 at 8:37 pm

    Hi Roger, here”s a quick thanks for running a cool blog and to wish you ATVB for a very happy Christmas.

    We’re enjoying the frozen snow and -4C temps here in Sunny Sussex.

    @Adolfo – is it a motor or a dynamo??? I still can’t decide how the system operates.

  6. tallbloke says:
    December 26, 2010 at 8:50 pm

    Hey Tenuc,
    Thanks, and I hope you are having a merry christmas too. I bet you are, since you can’t spell your own email address at the moment. 😉

  7. Tenuc says:
    December 26, 2010 at 10:11 pm

    …LOL…:-))

    Wondered why the moderation message came up!

    You’re not wrong Roger – started Christmass Eve and haven’t been sober since… Good job it only comes once a year.

  8. P.G. Sharrow says:
    December 27, 2010 at 12:45 am

    Tenuc says:
    December 26, 2010 at 8:37 pm

    @Adolfo – is it a motor or a dynamo??? I still can’t decide how the system operates.

    Tenuc: At times a freely rotating device can act as a motor or a dynamo depending if it lags or leads in the local fields. Energy in or energy out as the magnetic fields try to remain in balance. Energy is stored as angular momentum (AM) or dissipated as heat ( LIR?)

    Once magnetic fields are set in motion, they behave as if they are super conductors of electro- motive- force (emf) energy or seen as having inertia, momentum. The sun is the prime mover as it has most of the AM of the system and is the strongest originator of magnetic fields. Even the sun can lag or lead the system and be slightly sped up or slowed down or have its’ magnetic fields increased or decreased as the “load changes”. pg

  9. P.G. Sharrow says:
    December 27, 2010 at 12:54 am

    A better New Year to all and I pray you all are having a grand holiday season. It has been a great pleasure to converse with every one here over the last year and I look forward to the next. pg

  10. tallbloke says:
    December 27, 2010 at 1:50 am

    [Raises glass of Irish single malt to Tenuc] Cheers mate.

    PG, thanks for all your input here over the last year, you have an original mind and a great vision for electrickery on a vast scale. Just a point though, the Sun has 98% of solar system mass, but only 2% of the Angular Momentum. I think this may be why the big outer planets have a feedback effect on the Sun via the barycentre wobble. The inner planets have an electromagnetic effect on the Sun via thei disturbance of the field in my conjecture.

  11. Bob Tisdale says:
    December 27, 2010 at 2:58 am

    And a Merry Christmas back at ya, Tallbloke

  12. tallbloke says:
    December 27, 2010 at 2:13 pm

    Cheers Bob, and a huge thanks from all of us for the brilliant oceanic analyses you’ve been providing us with over the last year.

  13. Adolfo Giurfa says:
    December 27, 2010 at 4:09 pm

    Tenuc says:
    December 26, 2010 at 8:37 pm

    Wires are vertical with respect to the ground. Vuk knows more about it, however how does the earth spin? (we should test it for alcohol… 🙂 )

  14. Zeke the Sneak says:
    December 28, 2010 at 7:28 pm

    Quick, get stamps buy cards! Do we have any wrapping paper?!

    Oh well, Happy New Year then 😀

  15. tallbloke says:
    December 28, 2010 at 8:20 pm

    Heh. Happy Holidays Zeke. 🙂

  16. Adolfo Giurfa says:
    December 28, 2010 at 8:29 pm

    Zeke the Sneak says:
    December 28, 2010 at 7:28 pm

    Happy New Year too!

  17. Zeke the Sneak says:
    December 28, 2010 at 8:55 pm

    Thanks tallbloke, and Adolfo!

    I feel we are all putting a very good year behind us. Cheers, to pressing on to even greater things to come.

    Zeke