That explanation about ‘rare atmospheric phenomenon’ was from Reuters. But Reuters have later tonight retracted on this.
How? Which atmospheric phenomenon would cause such a massive power outage and how? Especially since batterie powered devices do not seem to be affected?
Induced atmospheric vibration.
AFAIK, this happens when certain conditions are set and then arcs induce air waves that can cause damage to nearby systems. They also talked about rapidly changing temperatures at some places and if I understood it correctly, then it is the case that moist and rough surfaces of electric equipment can increase the likelihood and severity of things like that, but rapidly changing temperatures can cause moist surfaces.
Interesting. Sounds weird AF, gotta look that up
A rare atmospheric phenomenon that is due to extreme temperature variations in Spain. Meteorologists in Spain are not reporting any unusual temperatures, so I guess someone forgot to loop in the weather community.
Meanwhile, the estimated time to resolve the power outage has gone from around 10 hours to maybe a week.
Power came back about half an hour ago in southern Spain.
The phenomenon is called russia sabotage (its my best bet right now)
In before the mods pointlessly lock this one too.
Why do you think that’s pointless?
I don’t see the point in locking threads to try and consolidate comments when new information is coming out and it’s only a handful of comments. It’s just pointless over moderation.
Inb4 I don’t do that, because this is actually new information, rather than another live blog. Deal?
I disagree, especially if it is news about an ongoing event with new information coming out. There actually is a rule about posting about ongoing events, but that aside; consolidating comments is valuable when new information is coming out so that the conversation going on can include the new information. Also, a mod cannot look into the future and know how many comments there will be made later.
Also, a mod cannot look into the future and know how many comments there will be made later.
Hence me calling it over-moderation. It’s getting involved when there’s no need to. For example there was an article posted earlier that was locked and redirected to an article which I missed and wouldn’t have even checked because the title just wasn’t great. Though my poor geography may have been the cause for that. Also sometimes, in fact most times, I’m commenting on an article, not the subject matter.
