UK may have to ration natural gas due to excessive demand during cold weather -- and it's spring.
Mail Online is reporting:
- plunging temperatures forced millions to turn up their heating
- shortfall could add more than £200 to family bills, analysts warn
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- gas stores at their lowest level for three years with snow forecast
- government insists gas needs are 'continuing to be met'
- Britain relying on pipelines from Norway and shipments of liquefied gas
- energy giant SSE was of 'very real risk' of lights going out
- Downing Street spokesman said: 'It is absolutely clear that supplies are not running out'
Meanwhile, The (London) Express is reporting:
Up to 16 inches of snow will fall over high ground with several inches likely across much of the UK, the Met Office said last night.
Over
1,000 schools were shut and transport was disrupted as any hopes of
spring were dashed by yet another onslaught of snow and flooding today
as temperatures fell as low as -12C (10F).
Emergency services saw an early surge in weather-related
call-outs as some parts of the country were hit by blizzard conditions.
Government agencies issued a string of warnings urging the public to
take care on the roads.
The South-west, which
will escape the worst of the winter blast, faces flooding with up to
100mm of rain – almost two months’ worth – over the next 24 hours as
yesterday's heavy rain continues.
Back in the 1980's we were stationed in Great Britain for four years. I never recall any winter this severe. After we left, warming must have continued, but then, sixteen years ago, the earth quit warming and began to cool.