[tcrlaf]

“Winter didn’t just settle in over there. It’s been settling in for several months now.”

This happens just as the UK is having it’s coldest night in a century...
Gotta admire the timing.

[tcrlaf]

Sounds like the Czechs are in a real panic:

“Without prior warning and in clear contradiction with the reassurances given by the highest Russian and Ukrainian authorities to the European Union, gas supplies to some EU member states have been substantially cut,” the EU said in a statement.

“The Czech EU Presidency and the European Commission demand that gas supplies be restored immediately to the EU and that the two parties resume negotiations at once with a view to a definitive settlement of their bilateral commercial dispute,” the presidency and the Commission said in a joint statement.

[DoughtyOne]

There is positively nothing to admire here.

[AuH2ORepublican]

“This happens just as the UK is having it’s coldest night in a century...”

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That’s not what the article said. It said that “The UK is suffering one of its coldest nights this century with temperatures plunging to as low as -10C.” “This century” means since January 1, 2001. So what the article states is that the UK is experiencing “one of its coldest nights” (what, 10th coldest?) *in the past 14 years*. So I don’t think that it’s anywhere close to the coldest night in the UK in the past 100 years.

Moreover, if the article is correct in that “temperatures plung[ed] to as low as -10C,” then it couldn’t possibly be one of the coldest nights in recent British memory. Ten below is pretty darned cold when we’re talking degrees Fahrenheit, but -10 Celsius is an unimpressive 14 degrees *above* 0 Fahrenheit (to convert degrees Celsius to Fahrenheit, multiply by 9, divide by 5, and then add 32). I’ve never been in the UK during winter, but I know that it’s pretty far north and that it can’t be unheard of for it to get colder than 14 degrees during winter nights.

So I think that the Daily Mail is engaging in a bit of hyperbole regarding the extent of the cold spell facing the UK right now, which is consistent with the alarmist tone of the article. But I hope that Europeans react by extracting more natural gas to bridge the gap in the short run and by permitting fracking so as to end Russia’s extortion in the long run.

[edpc]

From what I read in the story, UK supplies won’t be affected much, if at all. Seems like he’s stiffing the countries that really can’t do anything about it if push came to shove. Though.....I don’t think I’d want to piss off the Turks unnecessarily.

[FreeReign]

This happens just as the UK is having it’s coldest night in a century...

I don't think that's correct. Temperature range today in London for example is 37 to 48 degrees. That's right about normal.