Your economic loss of $240 million for the superstorm day

According to the analysis, our country has experienced economic losses caused by extreme weather events from 2010 the most - when the air is cold and the snow makes the economy of this country is "frozen" in the week before Christmas.

The greatest impact is the construction industry and the loss of 300 million pounds on the worst day when the temperature drops to 0 so that the workers can not work.

The influence of traffic network retail estimation is heavy because the road paralyzed many trains were canceled and ice on the road so that each operation is aborted.

These economists say, increase your GDP may decrease the 0,2 percent of the previous year, only half of the forecast to 0.4%.

In 2010, the air coming into your ice and snow at Christmas is considered to be one of the worst event in the history of the water, the serious influence to economic growth. According to the National Bureau of Statistics (ONS), the incident GDP growth of 1% in the water.

Snow was two times the record for 1996 at the Glasgow International Airport - Image: the guardian.

Last week, on behalf of the Glasgow International Airport, told the snow had two times as thick as the level recorded in 1996. Here, more than 25000 passengers told the reason to be delayed or canceled flights every day.

At the same time, the state electricity and natural gas suppliers wholesale price for y-title: know the highest level of gas in the past ten years more than two, no mutation was found to increase the use of energy bills to customers.