Summer weather extremes more persistent in warming world, says study
Scott Sutherland
jeudi, 22 août 2019 à 14:35 - What s Up In Climate Change? A new study points to more persistent summer extremes, and a new wind farm will double Saskatchewan s wind power.
We are already seeing summer extremes unlike ever before due to climate change, with spiking temperatures, as well as both extreme dry weather and extreme wet weather events. A new study is showing that these extremes are likely to cluster together as the world continues to warm, causing more persistent episodes of extreme summer weather. Our study found that if the world warms to 2°C above preindustrial levels, we could see a significant shift in summer weather conditions from the patterns we know today, study lead author Peter Pfleiderer, from Climate Analytics and Humboldt University, said in a press release on Monday. Extreme weather would become more persistent - hot and dry periods, as well as consecutive days of
The United States has been dealing with the impacts of a polar vortex that brought Texas, in particular, to its knees. Wind turbines there froze up, and natural gas infrastructure, built more to handle temperatures in the 40 C range, lacks the insulation to deal with severe cold, resulting in freeze-ups that have reduced gas flow for both heating and power generation in the most energy-rich state in that nation. Over the past few weeks, Saskatchewan has endured its own cold snap, but this is par for the course for SaskPower. The Crown utility has a total system power generation capacity of 4,893 megawatts, if everything is running at 100 per cent. On Feb. 11, it was producing a peak of 3,722 megawatts.