The belgian Royal Meteorological Institute calls February 2024 a “very warm, wet and gloomy month”. Specifically: no temperatures below zero Celcius, more than twice as much rain than normal in 23 rainy days, and only 30 hours of sunshine (compare that to the almost 73-hour average of the past 30 years). Combine that with somewhat stronger than usual wind from the SSW, and it’s hard not to link a part of what happened with the rising water temperature in the Atlantic Ocean.
Considering all those numbers, it’s almost a miracle that our solar panels managed to generate 59% of what we expected in terms of solar energy production! Nevertheless, even with a “good” performance of our panels in January, that makes it the darkest Winter of our solar array…
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