I was setting up an animation of the situation of the southern ocean earlier today when it occurred to me that these systems never blow themselves out.

The pattern repeats to infinity without any reason for doing so.

Consider a small part of the situation as the influx of precipitate from Rio de la Plata. The range of precipitate on the BoM chart's scale goes from:
0.2; 1; 2; 5; 10; 20; 50; 100; 150; 200.
All denoted by colour.

And there is no black.

What that means is that the procession from calm to storm -to the next step in the mechanics of the fluid being studied, is denoted by exactly the same processes as is displayed on all weather charts that display isobars.

I'd been using the wrong format to create the animation and the scale was lighting up through blue to pink (200 mm of precipitate in 6 hours for several hours.) And it woke me up.

And got me thinking.

If all the world's isobars indicate a change of state, then all the world's energy was fluctuating in harmony. So what the was happening to its entropy?

Damn!
I just realised I ditched the earlier animations. Now I will have to recreate them. Or maybe they will evolve if I leave them long enough.