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Came across this today - DUNKELFLAUTE. A word of German origin which is used in the energy business .It refers to a period of winter weather with low light and little to no wind and therefore unsuitable for generating renewable energy. Can't wait to use it!
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Colleague of mine lives in North East Scotland and has an interest in Doric:
www.facebook.com/reel/451544174618916
Keeps sharing words from the Doric dictionary related to whatever subject we're discussing.
Last edited by: Bromptonaut on Tue 4 Feb 25 at 20:27
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The classic source of Doric humour were the trio who performed the “Scotland the What?” sketch shows. There are quite a few on YouTube. Some have aged better than others but “the Ballater Toyshop” is a good introduction to the dialect, words and humour.
If he is old enough your colleague will no doubt know of these.
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My colleague responded to the moon landing by sending the Ballater Toyshop link.
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Dunkelflaute has been in daily use on an energy forum I frequent since about November since it became the cause of many of us not really doing so well on some of the more exotic Octopus tariffs as in previous years.
I've not had an overnight where they pay me for a good couple of weeks, and in fact overnights often aren't massively different to daytime on the Agile tariff. E.G. the lowest overnight tonight is a huge 22.57p at 01:30. The washing and dishwasher will have to wait another day :-) though the longer term forecasts (often less than accurate) are hardly showing anything lower than that before 12th
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Word of the day - Bromptonaut
