<story><title>Why Germans won’t heat their homes even with free electricity?</title><url>https://kaikenhuippu.com/2020/02/18/why-germans-wont-heat-their-homes-even-with-free-electricity/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marcosscriven</author><text>We called it storm Ciara in the UK. I wonder why we don’t unify names.</text></item><item><author>probably_wrong</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;On Monday 10th February 2020 something historical happened. For the first time, the market price of electricity fell below zero in Finland.(...) While this single day was a very windy one...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I feel I should point out that &amp;quot;a very windy day&amp;quot; is a &lt;i&gt;big&lt;/i&gt; understatement. February 10, 2020 was the day when storm Sabine arrived in northern Europe. In Germany, all medium and long distance trains stopped (electric trains, btw), and plenty of people stayed inside. Lots of closed schools, too.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t necessarily disagree with the article&amp;#x27;s central points. But picking up the &lt;i&gt;one&lt;/i&gt; outlier in which there&amp;#x27;s ridiculous amounts of wind and entire countries are working at half capacity seems naive at best.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Freak_NL</author><text>Names are being unified actually. The Dutch meteorological institute now cooperates with the British and Irish institutes for naming via the EUMETNET  system.&lt;p&gt;There are now two regions in Europe where names are decided in cooperation: West, and Southwest.&lt;p&gt;West is Ireland, United Kingdom, Netherlands, and Belgium, where storms tend to originate in the West.&lt;p&gt;Southwest is the Iberian peninsula and France.&lt;p&gt;A third region (Southeast) is being set up for the Mediterranean.&lt;p&gt;Every region has its own list of names, but when a storm is first named in one region, the other regions will use that name instead of assigning their own (if the storm crosses regions).&lt;p&gt;This means that everyone called this storm Ciara, except for the Germans. Germany is an exception, and has its own (commercial) naming system at the moment.&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.knmi.nl&amp;#x2F;kennis-en-datacentrum&amp;#x2F;uitleg&amp;#x2F;naamgeving-van-stormen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.knmi.nl&amp;#x2F;kennis-en-datacentrum&amp;#x2F;uitleg&amp;#x2F;naamgeving-...&lt;/a&gt; (Dutch)</text></comment>
<story><title>Why Germans won’t heat their homes even with free electricity?</title><url>https://kaikenhuippu.com/2020/02/18/why-germans-wont-heat-their-homes-even-with-free-electricity/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marcosscriven</author><text>We called it storm Ciara in the UK. I wonder why we don’t unify names.</text></item><item><author>probably_wrong</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;On Monday 10th February 2020 something historical happened. For the first time, the market price of electricity fell below zero in Finland.(...) While this single day was a very windy one...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I feel I should point out that &amp;quot;a very windy day&amp;quot; is a &lt;i&gt;big&lt;/i&gt; understatement. February 10, 2020 was the day when storm Sabine arrived in northern Europe. In Germany, all medium and long distance trains stopped (electric trains, btw), and plenty of people stayed inside. Lots of closed schools, too.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t necessarily disagree with the article&amp;#x27;s central points. But picking up the &lt;i&gt;one&lt;/i&gt; outlier in which there&amp;#x27;s ridiculous amounts of wind and entire countries are working at half capacity seems naive at best.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ysr23</author><text>brexit means brexit &amp;#x2F;s&lt;p&gt;In seriousness, wasn&amp;#x27;t Storm Ciara named by Met Éireann ? that was certainly my impression, given that most people in the UK struggled to pronounce it.  So there is some unification between The Met offices of Ireland and the UK with regard to naming.</text></comment>