Much like here in Pensacola (upon which I will post later), this winter has been a surprise to most of Europe and a truly unwelcome one at that. The relatively benign and temperate winters of the past couple of years have again, as these things tend to cycle, given way to a blast of winter reality and arctic chill enveloping the continent, and the British Isles find themselves swept by colder, fiercer winter blasts rolling in off the North Atlantic and Irish Sea.
They had a ripper come through last month – Storm Darragh – with tremendous winds and biting cold. Besides literally blowing people brave enough to be out in it around the streets, and thrashing fences, trees and roofs, it tore up a brand-new solar field and ripped blades from stationary wind turbines, none of which obviously, were operational at the time considering the adverse…
