UK Braces For -20C (-4F); Ideology Above Energy Security; Finland To -38.9C (-38F); Madhya Pradesh Freezes; + Southern US States Expecting Heaviest Snow In Years

Yesterday, Brits were paying millions of pounds per hour to boost gas power output as wind and solar all but flatlined.

UK Braces For -20C (-4F)

Scotland is bracing for a hard freeze, the hardest in decades (perhaps ever) with temperatures in the Highlands forecast to drop below -20C (-4F) Thursday night.

Dalwhinnie, near the Cairngorms, is forecast to hit -18C (0F), with the likes of Altnaharra possibly dipping below -20C (-4F). If reached, this would be the coldest January temperature recorded in the UK since 2010. If breached, it could mark the coldest January 9th/10th since 1982. (The nation’s record Jan low is the -27.2C (-17F) logged in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, also in 1982.)