Geobulletin alpha

Linux - the great AI adventure 

 I am replacing my Zoneminder system with Frigate.  It does AI recognition with an attached Coral accelerator, which does something like a trillion ops per second.  Being raised on linear processing, I find it a stretch to do parallel processing, but every graphics chip does that.  I have just now finally got Docker working on the little computer.  It only likes Debian Stable, and I run Sid

Strong ocean plume action may be ending 

 Still no sign of an ocean current map.  The last week or two has been characterized by strong Pacific plumes coming over NA.  This gives us nice dry fall weather.  A far cry from the summer pattern of Arctic cold blobs meeting Gulf hot blobs right over Toronto.  That was a lot of rain.However, the Atlantic Ocean has shot its load like it always does, and we are relying on the Pacific,