Just watched a yellow tourist minicar get chased down Lombard Street by a San Francisco fire engine, like watching a lion pounce on an unsuspecting gazelle, true hertzog-esque uncensored reality happening in this great city.
Few things sit with me like this:
predictive modeling on today’s best supercomputers runs maybe ~10× faster than reality. The physical ceiling is ~10⁶×.
We’re only 1 order of magnitude past nature itself, but still 6 away from the true limit.
My how far we have to go.
#PickettFire Update -
3 Helicopters with night flying capabilities will continue working the fire overnight. We also have multiple ground resources that will continue with suppression efforts. There are multiple agencies are actively working to control the fire. Crosswalk…
I’m now getting baseball card content in my for you unprompted.
@RichIMET what have you done to my algorithm, it’s associating wildfire and baseball card content now 😖
I’m now getting baseball card content in my for you unprompted.
@RichIMET what have you done to my algorithm, it’s associating wildfire and baseball card content now 😖
Still looking very hot for #SoCal the 2nd half of next week:
- Temps peaking Thu-Sat (98-108) away from coast
- RH 8-20% away from coast
- Chance of TSTMs from eastern San Gabriels Mtns southward
- Deep mixing heights (10-17000 ft)
- Chance of critical #FireWx conditions
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