Blackouts latest: 'Rare atmospheric phenomenon' behind huge outages in Portugal and Spain
Spain and Portugal blackouts latest: Power cuts not caused by cyber attack, Spanish grid says - but investigation launched
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)
That explanation about 'rare atmospheric phenomenon' was from Reuters. But Reuters have later tonight retracted on this.
Thx for the info. Current thinking is concurrent over / undervoltage in 2 separate power plants/points of failure, if I'm reading correctly.
While my bets are on sabotage, happenstance is almost as likely. Takes off tinfoil hat
