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Originally Posted by nomadking
It's not about temperature, it's about the amount of wind power available.
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Perhaps not, but an interesting aspect of our energy issues and especially our dash for wind as a key renewable resource is that in the UK, our lowest temperatures tend to be associated with reduced wind speed. This is because the low pressure systems that give us our best wind come from the west or the southwest across the Atlantic and so are relatively warm. Polar maritime and polar continental air masses are generally dragged over the UK by high pressure systems which tend to have lower wind speeds.