Met Office says cold winter may continue | UK | Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - Below average temperatures are likely to continue into January after the coldest start to winter in over three decades in December, the Met Office said Monday.

The official forecaster said in its winter weather forecast in late November that while December was likely to be cold, temperatures for January and February should be around or above normal for the time of year.

But the cold winter now looks set to continue in Britain.

"UK mean temperatures are likely to be below average in January and nearer average in February," the Met Office said.
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The last few winters have all been significantly milder than the winters of 1971-2000 because of global warming.

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The U.K.’s Telegraph reports that the British Wind Energy Association recently halved its estimate of the amount of the CO2 emissions saved by using wind turbines...I wonder whether BWEA’s numbers include the CO2 emissions that result from the backing up of wind turbines by conventional power sources. More broadly, I wonder if they count any CO2 emissions from wind power at all — for instance the emissions that result from building and erecting turbines — when computing their estimates.

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