OT: World’s Most Accurate Hurricane Models 09SEP2017

 OT: World’s Most Accurate Hurricane Models

This is off topic but should be useful and of interest

given current events.

Here’s what the world’s most accurate weather model

predicts for Irma. A potentially catastrophic hurricane

will approach southern Florida this weekend.

Eric Berger, Ars Technica , September 6, 2017

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/heres-what-the-worlds-most-accurate-weather-model-predicts-for-irma/

Please, please stop sharing spaghetti plots of hurricane

models All forecast models are not created equal.

Eric Berger, Ars Technica , September 6, 2017

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/please-please-stop-sharing-spaghetti-plots-of-hurricane-models/

Yours,

Paul H.

OT - Be Warned, Malware Cripples Computers Worldwide

OT - Be Warned, Malware Cripples Computers Worldwide

Looks like a major malware attack is in progress.
So you-all be careful out there.

Malware, described in leaked NSA
documents, cripples computers worldwide Washington Post, May 12, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/hospitals-across-england-report-it-failure-amid-suspected-major-cyber-attack/2017/05/12/84e3dc5e-3723-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html

Yours,

Paul H.

OT: The Geologists Are Coming! And Other Quirky Geoscience Tunes

OT: The Geologists Are Coming! And Other Quirky Geoscience Tunes

The article about geology songs is:
Showstack, Randy, 2016, Amoeba People Sing Quirky Tunes About Geoscience. Eos. Vol. 97,
no. 18, pp. 8-9 https://eos.org/current-issues

and PDF
https://eos.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/15-Sept_magazine.pdf?cbb367

In the same issue, is “New Insights into North America’s Midcontinent Rift” by Seth Stein, Carol Stein, Jonas Kley, Randy Keller, and others and “Bacteria Preserve Record of Earth’s Magnetic Fields” by Elizabeth Deatrick.

A couple of Amoeba People’s songs are:
The Geologists Are Coming!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NU51lJIdrg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCYVhPp7cUs

and

Continental Drift: Alfred Wegener Song by The Amoeba People

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1-cES1Ekto

Other tunes are:

Country Western Geology - Brad Paisley - 5/10/2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF0iC6DXMQ8

Tiktaalik (Your Inner Fish)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9h1tR42QYA

Trilobite Deep time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d9NztifSD4

Yours,

Paul H.