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@chdot: pioneering delayed due to lack of bath shelf thingy
@wingpig: if bathing in milk is good for the skin, a sour cream sauce is surely also going to help?
@gembo: how precise an eater are you?
Highly imprecise! But see above.
Bubble bath is an abomination btw. Always weirdly scented and makes me itchy.
Zigzag from Restalrig path up to Hawkhill Avenue solid frost.
@unhurt, mental, when you proposed eating your mushroom stroganoff in the bath I had assumed you had to have a bath shelf thingy. Without a bath shelf thingy the whole proposal is madness.
@wingpig - zigzag was like that yesterday when our three trikes were out.
Freakishly warm weather forecast for Storm Dylan coming. Expect ski season may finish for a while. Temps of 15° - we are seeing the end of seasons it seems.
I was (maybe not) surprised to hear that the arrival of frost over last week is now classed as temperature below seasonal average.
@gembo: you are right. I'm shocked at myself.
Walked along Gilmerton to Loanhead push this morning; sheet ice in quite a few places. Not one for cycling, just in case anyone was wondering.
1.5 deg in dalgety bay today, dropping to 1 at inverkeithing up to 3 and 4 in the City
hard ice on the car and on the paths where wet, i decided to drive in today. - car park at work super slippy, like a caked frost ontop of semi frozen tarmac.
be careful!!!!!!!!
I'm hoping that the canal towpath is free of ice again today after yesterday's mild temperatures, although I did see a little tractor driving on and gritting pavements in town last night which seemed odd timing given that it was the first night without a forecast ice warning since Wednesday...
Icy on untreated surfaces this morning (south Edinburgh and Dalkeith). Seemed okay on main roads.
Note on KB campus the road parallel to West Mains Road seems to have black ice in place - unusual for KB - this is the newly surfaced bit.
Frost on pavements in Edinburgh and Livingston - anyone whose route is usually off road, be wary.
@amir thanks for the heads up. I saw your post just before setting off and took the precaution of wearing extra socks and outdoor shoes rather than cycling shoes, for which I was extremely thankful when I came to walk my bike over the very slippy Slateford Aqueduct. When half-way across, a cyclist joined the aqueduct from the west - I don't know how he managed to brake to a halt while staying upright... Other than that, there were patches of ice (I dismounted for the Wester Hailes 'S' bend), heavy frost but also some clear sections of towpath mostly to the west of the bypass.
Kirkliston to McDonald Road, the only dodgy bit was the wee road between the B8000 and Royal Elizabeth Yard, lots of invisible slippy patches.
Burnshot road seemed fine, as did the remainder of the cycle paths between Barnton and 5-Ways.
NMW quite frosty, no evidence of grit. MMW also surprisingly ungritted, or lightly gritted, leaving frosty patches.
@SRD and yet there was a mini-tractor out gritting the pavements on Lauriston Place last night. Priorities...
Note on KB campus the road parallel to West Mains Road seems to have black ice in place - unusual for KB - this is the newly surfaced bit.
Thanks for the heads up. Unusually, I came along this way this morning. Seemed fine now though.
Leith Links untreated and frosty, with ice in places next to the tennis courts. WoL just about liquid. Eildon St and Inverleith Park frosty.
CEC up to their old tricks of only gritting the Carrick Knowe path from balgreen Rd to the tram stop. From there to the Gyle was white, so took to the road at saughton mains
NMW was very slippy about 7am this morning. Very frustrating that it's not been gritted. Added to that it looks like something has been along to sweep away all the leaves and has actually just smudged mud and leaf-snot across the whole of the path.
Roads were all icy in Clerwood and Davidsons Mains this morning. The Silverknowes path looked like it had been gritted but some bits were still icy. From Craigleith it was the road for me and therefore no further ice problems.
Wol path was a mixture of sheet ice and then mud. Alternating until towpath which was twinkly. Will go down road tomorrow.
@gembo really? It's supposed to be double digit temperatures tomorrow. How can there still be ice?! I plan to cautiously take the towpath again tomorrow morning...
@jdanielp that was this morning when it was supposed to be six degrees when it was clearly 0 degrees?
I told you this very factoid when we stopped on the twinkly Tarmac of the towpath.
Maybe WoL path will just be mud to,orrow. Has the canal itself defrosted yet? Was milder out there coming back from school concert.
@gembo Thanks for the twinkly update. I don't understand this Scottish frost anymore. Was really hoping to cycle finally tomorrow.
@gembo @bill it was rather worse than I'd expected this morning, but other than the Slateford Aqueduct and the Wester Hailes 's' bend I found the towpath to be ok, but that was after half eight in the morning. The temperature definitely reached 5 or 6 during the day and I encountered no ice on the way home, but that isn't to say that parts of the towpath weren't still slippy with the residue of the recent weather... Surely after tomorrow it will be ok again? Definitely still ice on the canal though.
I will head for the towpath this morning it should be fine. It has been very quiet on the towpath of late, which has made negotiating the frost easier
How can there still be ice?!
Remember that temperature is a measure of the average energy of the molecules and not of the overall energy available.
It's room temperature at about 120km above the surface of the Earth but don't go there, man, and don't try to breathe it.
"How can there still be ice?!
Remember that temperature is a measure of the average energy of the molecules and not of the overall energy available."
Perhaps more to the point is the fascinating physics of water where it takes quite a lot of energy to convert from solid to liquid.
In short, it helps if the sun can get to the surface - which explains why ice lingers in the wooded bits of the WoL.
But I too am mystified as to how quickly ice formed (and stayed) in recent days when the air temperature seemed to be mostly above zero.
An unusual succession of cloud free nights?
The towpath was nice and (just) wet this morning. Sheets of ice still on the canal especially in Edinburgh. I dismounted on the aqueduct and Wester Hailes S-bend but was no need for that. Happy cycling everyone!
all good from Dalgety today, the thick ice had cleared off the path along the coast to InverK.
warm - i overdressed :(
#sweatfest/10
@bill glad to hear and indeed I just experienced the same, although I'm still finding the cobbles quite slippery and dismounted to cross Slateford Aqueduct as a precaution. I took advantage of being off my bike to stow my jacket and spent the rest of the ride regretting not wearing shorts.
@IWRATS @chdot fair points.
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