... is barely mentioned (-17°C)
Now if it had been the warmest...
OT: Coldest UK temperature for ten years....
Feb 09, 2021
Last reply: 5 years ago
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Quite.
IIRC a few weeks ago we both predicted it was going to be cold...
global cooling due to no air travel less car usage etc
Nah! La Niña.
el camino
Can occur when there is a La Nina event in the pacific, which started late last year.
Fire up that Mustang and get driving Jim.
It's always cold in the Scottish Highlands !!
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yea baby
so tiz
I don't do foreign names.
-17? Almost tropical...
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What we want is a nice re-activated volcano in the lake district, we could tap it for energy.
Weren't they playing with geothermal energy up in the NE a few years ago ?
Many seem to have dabbled, but no headline news yet.
yup. its also v cold N america
If it made remote economic sense it would have been done years ago. waiting for government subsidies
I see on today's lunchtime weather forecast that later in the week they expect high pressure to develop over the north North Sea, accompanied by a drop in wind strength and for it to get even colder. Do we have enough OCGT capacity to cope, I wonder.
Sellafield ?. Plenty of useful decaying heat there.
I think the danger is that you end up - like Iceland - providing it to everyone at very low prices. And we all know that just isn't how we like to do things in England.
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