"Auntie 'Em....Auntie Em....It's a Twister, It's a Twister!"
Posted on 01/31/2014 11:05:29 PM PST by Errant
Thanks so much for checking in!
AND for your “sunny” update.
High winds are always the cause for concern here too.
Trees fall and out goes our power.
Thanks for sharing!
This could be epic in Scotland it sounds like. Independent Scotland is going to need a lot of external help to cope probably
Epic fail could be coming for the UK, especially Scotland
It’s about 5 or so Sat. ... I haven’t checked to see how things have gone over their today...will look soon...but it won’t be good. Hopefully people will be safe and take measures to be so til this threat moves past them.
"Auntie 'Em....Auntie Em....It's a Twister, It's a Twister!"
Geez, just use the Mouse wheel. It zooms in and out so you don't have to use both hands on the keyboard.
Maybe they meant 150 KPH and not 150 MPH.
Wetter, yes; windier, yes; colder - certainly not. The rain and wind are from warm air over the Atlantic. (Cold winters in the UK are relatively dry, with continental air.) The UK- wide average in January was 2 degrees c above the long-term average. That's a lot. It's northern Scandinavia which has had the really exceptional conditions - 4 degrees c above average. Caused by exactly the same Arctic vortex which brought exceptional cold to the US.
Hardly. Despite the best efforts of the UK government, wind and solar still provide only a miniscule fraction of the UK's total energy supply.
Sorry, those figures are way out. 10% is the total for all ‘renewables’, not just wind. And as for 40% in Scotland - that’s the pie-in-the-sky total renewables target by 2020 announced by the SNP for an independent Scotland. Nowhere near that at present.
Didn’t you folks have a lot of snow earlier this winter - more than usual?
That might explain such a large miss.
Yes, that’s right, there was a flurry of early snow for a couple of days in November. Ever since then, the weather has been coming inexorably from the south west, and temperatures have been way above average.
I see, then thanks for correcting me. I was basing what I said about the increased snowfall on that occurrence alone. Temps really depend upon the wind currents as we’re seeing in the deep South of the USA.
Yeh, you’re probably right that my statement is off. Lots of sources are claiming all kinds of numbers. Here’s one example:
Renewable Energy Now Has 40% Market Penetration Of Electricity In Scotland
Here’s another:
Going green: record 40% of Scotland’s electricity is coming from renewables
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