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Damn the Dunkelflaute

Damn the Dunkelflaute

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Dec 31, 2024
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To Europe’s growing list of troubles, add the Dunkelflaute.

It may sound like a tasty taco-pumpernickel fusion, but the Dunkelflaute is actually a German term for a weather phenomenon when dark clouds envelop northern Europe, blocking out the sun and even the wind. In other words, the kind of gloomy fall and winter conditions most non-Europeans associate…

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