UK COLD SNAP FORECASTED FOR MARCH - PETROL/DIESEL AUTO OWNERS ADVISED TO FULLY FILL UP4 Feb 2023 23:22
UK snow: Exact dates polar vortex could strike which threatens major snowfall and ice - Mirror Online https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-snow-exact-dates-polar-29095724
- I can't find the link to do with fossil fuel-loving ICE vehicles but there is a recommendation being put out there to fully top up to put less strain on fuel filtration systems and because in the cold weather expected soon E10 petrol and will freeze in the tank (diesel will also, but for different reasons). E10 petrol also corrodes plastic/rubber components and creates moisture that corrodes metal via rusting reactions.
So, if people take their advice, the demand for oil will increase during the cold period
we are about to experience, which maybe why brent oil is still in the 70s/80s.
The expectation over the next few years is more of the same.
I've seen it suggested that 2022 heat waves around the world
were caused by suddenglobal warm due to th eruption of the Tonga volcano in the Pacific,
which released millions of tonnes of steam into the (normally dry) stratosphere.
India and ****stanwere first to experience the resulting heat waves,
then Europe, UK, Midwestern United States and Southeastern United States , and China ,
as you'd expect for a cloud of water vapour gradually falling to ground level.
Looks like China was last because it was closest to the eruption,
so the cloud was dispersed and out of range to have any effect over a number of passes,
until mid-June when the cloud was entering the troposphere.
So, seems that none of those 2022 heat waves were really man-made,
but they were made by nature, due to one very powerful volcano.
Unless another volcano like that goes off and creates another heatwave,
I expect 2023 & 2024 to get colder and colder due to Earth-orbit-induced Milankovitch cycles.