http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: It's October! en Sun, 31 May 2026 23:10:56 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15520#post-200554 Thu, 01 Oct 2015 12:58:17 +0000 Stickman 200554@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My wife's birthday is in June, mine in October. Over the years we've frequently noticed that the weather on my birthday is much better than on hers. Maybe the gods just shine on me ;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15520#post-200552 Thu, 01 Oct 2015 12:54:13 +0000 threefromleith 200552@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A few years ago I sat in sweltering heat along at Cramond reading my Kindle after cycling there on the fixie on a mid-October flexiday off.</p> <p>It was better weather than we'd had all summer that year, iirc!</p> <p>Conversely, I remember sitting out behind the Waterfront Bar at the end of March in glorious, hot sunshine having a birthday drink. Ended up with sunburn.</p> <p>Funny old game, our weather! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15520#post-200540 Thu, 01 Oct 2015 10:26:22 +0000 panyagua 200540@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was browsing through my Strava activities in an idle moment the other day, and I came across a commute home from *31st* October last year, which I'd named</p> <p><a href="https://www.strava.com/activities/213953682">Summer gear on Halloween - must be a first.</a></p> <p>My Garmin recorded the temperature as 18 deg C, so I wasn't just making it up!</p> <p>So... maybe not remotely normal, but far from unprecedented. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15520#post-200538 Thu, 01 Oct 2015 10:22:17 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 200538@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>About 13 years ago, on 10th October, I was playing cricket on a beach up on the Dornoch Firth in a t-shirt and sweltering heat. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15520#post-200537 Thu, 01 Oct 2015 10:08:19 +0000 DaveC 200537@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Bally foggy over the wat'r in darkest Fife (The Sunny Kingdom (TM)).</p> <p>Cool n damp until I got to the out skirts of the burgh where the sun was making a late appearance. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15520#post-200536 Thu, 01 Oct 2015 10:07:44 +0000 dougal 200536@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Several years ago I spent the day with hired rowing boats on the canal, celebrating an October birthday with drinks and cake on the water. We were all in t-shirts and got quite sunburned. I was looking at a photograph from that day before I left the house this morning. It was very much like it is at the moment. Or how people tell me it is, as my work doesn't get natural light... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15520#post-200534 Thu, 01 Oct 2015 09:57:20 +0000 SRD 200534@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Don't know about 'normal', but it relates to gulf stream being so far north, while all summer it was south. </p> <p>In Newfoundland, September's been warmer than July (statistically, not just anecdotally), although last week they also had the earliest recorded snow since the 40s. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15520#post-200533 Thu, 01 Oct 2015 09:53:05 +0000 chdot 200533@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"for some reason I put a light jacket on top of my t-shirt this morning. sauna-like"</p> <p>SRD @ <a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15452&amp;page=2#post-200528" rel="nofollow">http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15452&amp;page=2#post-200528</a></p> <p>Is the current spell of warm (once the sun is up), still, dry weather <em>remotely</em> normal for Ed?? </p>