Monday 16 March 2015

Spring Thursday

20th March, Thursday, is recognised as the first day of spring by Meteo France (the spring equinox) and it looks from the forecasts that it may be a sunny day - though exceptionally there will be a solar eclipse that day.
A partial eclipse of the sun will cross France between 9.10 am and 11.30 am. Oddly there have been warnings not of paranormal activity (though no doubt somewhere someone will be predicting that the high tides forecast the following day are all part of an extra-terrestrial plot), but there has been concern that Europe's increasing dependence on solar energy could lead to power cuts during the eclipse. And we thought solar power was good. Is it too cynical to think the "concerns" are mainly those of suppliers of other energy sources?
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