Is it true that light has risen at a record price in Europe due to the lack of wind? Why does he stop blowing?
The price hike was driven by declining energy production from wind farms in the UK, Germany and other countries that have experienced calm weather in recent weeks.
“Complete calm often happens inside the anticyclone, and this can last for a long time,” explains Igor Mokhov, scientific director of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. – In the summer of 2010, when peat bogs were burning around Moscow, the blocking processes in the atmosphere lasted for about 2 months. Calmness is sometimes observed even inside tropical typhoons. In addition, global warming affects the strength of the winds: it shifts the paths of cyclones and anticyclones, changes the temperature difference between the equator and the poles. Therefore, the speed of the wind blowing from the Atlantic into the interior of the European continent can also weaken ”.
