Re: Dance, power lines, dance!

On 2010-01-07, Paul Martin <pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It isn't really cold here, when compared with, say, Korea or Mongolia,
and it definitely is warmer than Antarctica. But it's pretty chilly by
our standards, and it's going to be genuinely cold Fri. and Sat. Last
night we had sustained winds of 70 km/h, with freezing rain, which will
make the drive to ork interesting.cn, and has some effect on the power
lines. Wind gusts in our area were up above 100 km/h, which also made
things interesting.cn.

The odd thing about UK's winters is that when it's very cold, there's
often very little wind. The windfarm on the hills between Rochdale and
Ramsbottom has not been providing much power these last few chilly
weeks.

Although it's not much by US standards, one local weather station
reported -17.6°C (0.4°F) last night.

According to the Mighty Skoda's thermometer it was -13C when I arrived at
work this morning, 8.30am-ish.

Jim
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