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  • Extreme cold grips Nordic countries, Russia as floods hit western Europe

    01/04/2024 2:49:14 PM PST · by yesthatjallen · 46 replies
    San Diego Union Tribune ^ | 01 03 2024 | JAN M. OLSEN
    Europe experienced stark weather contrasts on Wednesday, with extreme cold and snowstorms disrupting transportation and closing schools in Scandinavia while strong winds and heavy rain in western Europe caused flooding and at least one death. Temperatures fell below minus 40 degrees Celsius (minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit) in the Nordic region for a second day in a row Wednesday. In Kvikkjokk-Årrenjarka in Swedish Lapland, the mercury dropped to minus 43.6 C (minus 46.5 F), the lowest January temperature recorded in Sweden in 25 years, Sweden’s TT news agency reported. Extremely cold temperatures, snow and gale-force winds disrupted transportation throughout the Nordic...
  • A perfect (winter) storm brings lessons for gas producers and the electric grid

    01/09/2023 6:33:12 AM PST · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 27 replies
    The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | January 9, 2023 | Anya Litvak
    The brutal, unrelenting cold that lasted for several days over the Christmas holiday froze off a sizable portion of Appalachia’s ample gas production, cutting off supply to power plants when they needed it most. Gas transmission pipelines said the gas they were promised simply didn’t show up. On the electric grid that connects Pennsylvania to 12 other states, at one point almost 25% of the capacity on the system either didn’t start up or broke while operating, leaving coal and petroleum-fired units to pick up the slack. PJM, a Valley Forge-based grid operator, is still analyzing what happened during the...
  • Russia: World’s Most Extreme Public Transportation?

    04/15/2009 8:29:03 PM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 11 replies · 617+ views
    English Russia ^ | V. Makushkin
    World’s Most Extreme Public Transportation? Category: Funny, Photos, Society | Where is the world’s most extreme public transportation service is located in? It can easily be assumed that in Norilsk city, Russia. Norilsk people say about themselves “We have seen snowings in June, our parents are going to the job in the column of the buses leaded and followed by special snow clearing machines, our city was built by prisoners, when we hear that the weather is going to be warmer it means it would be -10, and we don’t have any homeless - just none would survive at -54″....