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Post by sigurdur on Jan 11, 2015 18:12:23 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Jan 19, 2015 21:56:17 GMT
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2914486/Arctic-blast-kill-one-person-seven-minutes-charity-warns-temperatures-set-plummet-15C-tomorrow-snow-way.html#ixzz3PGKM8vDjBritain braced for deadly freeze: Arctic blast so severe it could kill one person every seven minutes, charity warns, with temperatures set to plummet to -15C and yet MORE snow on the way •Britain's big freeze is set to continue for the rest of the weekend with temperatures plummeting well below zero •Cold could kill one person every seven minutes with one million elderly people unable to heat homes, Age UK warns •More snow is on the way tonight after as much as six inches fell in parts of Cumbria •Swathes of the south of England will be hit by 'wintry showers', with at least a dusting of snow •Temperatures will drop to -15C in Scotland and -10C in the Pennines on Sunday night, the Met Office says
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Post by dontgetoutmuch on Jan 20, 2015 2:29:12 GMT
I seem to remember a series of stories about the UK. grid... That it would be dangerously stretched in the event of a severe cold snap due to closure of coal plants and a Nuke plant that had troubles. Has anyone heard about whether this is a current concern?
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Post by acidohm on Jan 20, 2015 6:56:53 GMT
We had this weather and worse winters 2008-2012...In fact only last winter it did not snow. The weather is considered unusual but we've had so much of it, councils have invested in snow plough attachments for gritting lorries which make a huge difference to the roads. .
No reports of energy issue in mainstream media as yet.
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Post by nautonnier on Jan 20, 2015 17:03:30 GMT
We had this weather and worse winters 2008-2012...In fact only last winter it did not snow. The weather is considered unusual but we've had so much of it, councils have invested in snow plough attachments for gritting lorries which make a huge difference to the roads. . No reports of energy issue in mainstream media as yet. Apparently they had to bring one of the emergency open cycle gas fired generation stations on line yesterday. Things were close to the edge for some reason.
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Post by acidohm on Jan 20, 2015 18:54:18 GMT
www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/This site show energy usage and demand in the UK by day/week/month. Demand went way up yesterday, must be the cold weather...cannot find info on emergency measures being taken tho, but can see it in these charts, where did you come by this nautonnier?
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Post by nautonnier on Jan 21, 2015 11:35:27 GMT
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Post by dontgetoutmuch on Jan 22, 2015 21:13:23 GMT
I found it, here is the link.On the bright side they are keeping the lights on so far.
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Post by nautonnier on Jan 23, 2015 13:03:10 GMT
I found it, here is the link.On the bright side they are keeping the lights on so far. Note that the Large Combustion Plant Directive from the European Union, is to prevent 'acid rain' that never existed and was a whipped up frenzy before CO2. The fact that acid rain is not a problem is not preventing the Eurocrats from enforcing measures against it which happen to be closing coal and oil fired power generation. Strange that if its threat of global cooling, acid rain, or global warming - the cure is always to close coal and oil fired power generation. Its almost as if someone has decided that the power generation in the 'west' needs to be shut down - now come up with a good reason. However what is also clear is that once bureaucrats like the EU environmental groups and the US EPA have a reason to shut down industry, they will carry on despite disproof of the evidence that they used to justify their actions even to the extent in Europe that thousands of people are dying due to their policies. This should worry people more than it appears to.
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Post by nautonnier on Jan 24, 2015 14:10:48 GMT
Interesting parallels between current weather and past 'weather' Here is the GFS snowfall for the next week: Here is the Laurentide Ice Sheet
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Post by glennkoks on Jan 24, 2015 19:56:15 GMT
Joe B. over at weatherbell.com seems to think that the rest of this winter will be talked about for years and years as "epic". Starting late next week and lasting well through march.
We will see.
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Post by sigurdur on Jan 24, 2015 23:43:35 GMT
Joe B. over at weatherbell.com seems to think that the rest of this winter will be talked about for years and years as "epic". Starting late next week and lasting well through march. We will see. I think Joe is wrong this time. I am in Fargo, ND tonight and there were flocks of geese flying. Also some crows have returned around home. Birds somehow seldom make mistakes.
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Post by icefisher on Jan 25, 2015 4:49:27 GMT
I wouldn't go so far as to say birds seldom make mistakes. They are responding to current conditions and current conditions are warm with a huge mass of warm surface water all the way from the equator to the Gulf of Alaska. But I have seen it change rapidly . I am hoping the warm water will hold into the spring and give the spring a spring board into a warm water summer. But spring can bring conditions that drive huge quantities of deep cold water to the surface in a matter of very few weeks and change everything. The birds which lack any predictive ability can suffer a great deal from changing conditions.
But all that said, its nice all that energy is available and I tend to lean towards Bastardi being wrong on this one. . . .I hope.
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Post by nautonnier on Jan 25, 2015 10:22:44 GMT
"Summer in January." "Pretty amazing. The temperatures on Sunday and Monday will probably exceed the all time records for the date. They are WAY WARMER than the average temperatures for July and August, our warmest months. So the air above us tomorrow will be warmer than typical summer temperatures."
cliffmass.blogspot.com/2015/01/summer-in-january.html
Make the most of being on the equator side of the jetstream in winter for a change. WA State is right under the center of an 'Omega' blocking high at the moment. The East of the US is not so lucky.
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Post by acidohm on Jan 25, 2015 11:21:34 GMT
I can't help but notice that here in the UK, we are having a continuous cold snap, if it lasts the next 2 weeks as metcheck is suggesting (they havn't been wrong so far...) i dont doubt this will be a well below average january (average warm, 6.9..average cold 1.3)
This also is a continuation of numerous cold and exceptionally snowy winters (2008-2012/13) broken only by last winter where very wet weather that occurred first in 2012 dominated all winter 2013/14. so far...the gap in the cold coincided with the run-up to the peak in the current solar cycle.
Now this is purely observation, i am no a scientist in any respect apart from layman interest, however, to my mind it seems the UK's climate in this instance is tracking the solar cycle. I fully understand that historically attempts to allign the climate with the solar cycle have not born fruit. But is it possible that once the solar cycle drops below a certain level the feedback systems which help moderate the flux in the climate fail and allow us to observe the raw effect of say UV emmisions from the sun to greater impact the weather, at least here in the UK??
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