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The basic climate of the UK annually is wet and cool in winter, spring, and autumn with frequent cloudy skies, and drier and cool to mild in summer. The climate in the United Kingdom is defined as a humid temperate oceanic climate , or Cfb on the Köppen climate classification system, a classification it shares with most of north-west Europe. [ 1 ]
A dunkelflaute of three days in Germany 2023 (wind in light blue and solar in yellow) In the renewable energy sector, a dunkelflaute ( German: [ˈdʊŋkəlˌflaʊtə] ⓘ , lit. ' dark doldrums ' or ' dark wind lull ' , plural dunkelflauten ) [ 1 ] is a period of time in which little or no energy can be generated with wind and solar power ...
The lightest mean wind speeds are in summer. The speed of peak gusts and mean wind speed follow a similar pattern throughout the year. [12] Mean wind speeds are generally lower to the north-east of the region and in inland areas. Yeovilton, lowland Somerset, has a mean wind speed that is two thirds that of St. Mawgan in coastal Cornwall.
A wind gust of 194 mph (312 km/h) was recorded at Cairn Gorm on 19 December 2008 but was discovered too late to be verified by the Met Office. [14] The highest wind speed in England was a wind gust of 125.4 mph recorded at The Needles, Isle of Wight, on 18 February 2022 during Storm Eunice. [15]
In 2022 three-quarters of the UK population supported further wind generated power in the UK and the majority would be happy for a wind farm to be built near them. [32] In 2022, wind generation in the UK exceeded 20 GW for the first time, reaching 20.9 GW between 1200h and 1230h on 2 November 2022. [33]
The wind gusting across north German farm country brings much to the village of Sprakebuell: fog and rain from the sea, the occasional migrating stork, the faint smell of manure in the newly ...
The wind attempts to strip the traveler of his cloak, illustrated by Milo Winter in a 1919 Aesop anthology The Sun persuades the traveler to take off his cloak. The story concerns a competition between the North wind and the Sun to decide which is the stronger.
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