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Originally posted by Ginger Yellow View PostYikes:
ajor power failures have been reported across large areas of the UK, affecting trains, airports and traffic lights.
Power operators for the South East, Midlands, South West and Wales said there was a "major incident" affecting electricity.
UK Power Networks said it believed it was due to a "failure on National Grid's network".
Transport for London said the drop in power is affecting traffic lights, while many trains have been delayed.
Blackouts have also been reported in the North East.
Don't actually know if it's whether related, but maybe.
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Enappsys, an energy consultancy, said the blackout may have been caused by the unexpected shutdowns of the Hornsea offshore wind farm, which is owned by the Danish wind farm company Orsted, and the Little Barford gas-fired power plant, owned by German utility giant RWE.
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We return from holiday today and have woken up to photos on social media of flooding on our road. Our house should be ok, the road has a slight gradient (I know it very well from running and walking routes) and we're at the slightly higher end. However even at the lowest point it's still one of the higher elevations in Carlisle and so it must be the drains backing up, and it must have been a hell of a downpour in a short space of time to achieve that.
Some of the usual risk areas in town also seem to have had a bit of localised flooding but not on the scale of our "once every hundred years" flooding that has happened twice in the past 13 years. However there's a solid day of rain forecast today so our return home around midnight tonight will be interesting, both for the journey from the airport and what we find when we get to Carlisle.
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Not sure if this should be in the map thread or the weather thread, but thanks to Greta Thunberg's crossing of the Atlantic, I have become aware of Windy.com, which seems excellent.
Here you can track Greta's journey https://www.windy.com/track-team-mal....706,-41.484,4
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- Mar 2008
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- Revelling In The Hole
- England, Chelsea and Tooting and Mitcham. And Surrey CCC. And Wimbledon Dons Speedway (RIP)
- Nairn's Cheese Oatcake
So, the late August Bank Holiday Monday temperature record has been comprehensively smashed - was 28.2C (in 2017) but we've already hit 32.4C today and it'll probably go a bit higher.
It was 33.3C yesterday when the new late August Bank Holiday weekend record was set.
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- Mar 2008
- 20916
- The House with the Golden Windows
- Fast falling out of love for football.
- WasPlain Hobnobs
Originally posted by ad hoc View PostNot sure if this should be in the map thread or the weather thread, but thanks to Greta Thunberg's crossing of the Atlantic, I have become aware of Windy.com, which seems excellent.
Here you can track Greta's journey https://www.windy.com/track-team-mal....706,-41.484,4
It's great, init.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#curren...=-5.197,-3.596
Is very similar
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I'm in Provence and it's mid to high thirties here, so it appears there's no escape back home.
Although you aren't suffering Asian Tiger mosquitoes. They are fucking relentless and happy days, carry some lovely tropical diseases such as dengue fever.
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Currently projected to hit Cape Canaveral as a Category 4. Many gas stations are already sold out. Huge queues at Publix, Walmart, etc.
My area, SWFL, projected to get winds of about 50mph, as it will weaken as it crosses Florida and we are not in the centre of the cone.
Puerto Rico thankfully dodged the bullet, mostly.
Strangely, as an aside, cruise lines do not cancel. Those arriving in Miami Sunday-Tuesday are still going; Cape Canavaral arrivals will stay out at sea an extra day.
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