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"Severe weather warning"
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Posted 11 years ago #
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It would have made a great MTB ride as long as you kept to the left of the lamp posts.
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Worst. Surge. Ever. (at Cramond, anyway)
Water lapped around the second-top step of the old ferry landing, but I've rarely seen it so calm and still at Cramond!
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Edinburgh Spotlight (@edinspotlight)
04/01/2014 16:13
Really high tide at Granton Harbour but thankfully no wind http://pic.twitter.com/5QHujkgBxe"
Nice pic.
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Is it too windy to cycle in this morning?
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Nup. Quite constant rather than gusty.
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Yes it wasn't so bad, although rain came on at 9 out west and I'm glad I missed it.
Nursing a heavy cold and it didn't manage to defeat me.
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Hard work going SE, took about 10mins longer than usual. Was lucky to be doing 5mph at some points going over the bridge. Quite amusing being blown to an almost standstill going downhill.
Overall though not too bad, not gusty as previously mentioned, capitulate early and find a low gear and it's easy enough.
Wind is forecast to strengthen as the day goes on, I worry the bridge might be closed this evening.
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The wind was strong, but only occasionally gusty, on the canal this morning heading West, although, as kaputnik said, the rain coming on at around 9 wasn't ideal... The weather seems to have deteriorated somewhat since then however, so I'm not feeling that hard done by after all.
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Cheers all. Took me so long to assemble extra kit to deala with onset of horizontal rain that by the time I left it had passed on....ride in was okay, even on the folder.
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Aye windy going over the bridge! Busty round the towers, but the worst bit was the lack of practice. I was blowing out as much as the wind was blowing at me!
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Should stop raining after lunch time and you'll probably get back across the Bridge without pedalling!
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DaveC "Busty round the towers"
Oooh, Matron!
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'Twas a bit breezy on the way in today - but I got here before the rain, so it wasn't too bad.
A wind map - not sure how much use, but it's very pretty, and if you play around a little, has lots of information.
Click where it says Earth
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Yup. Someone posted that here a couple of weeks ago and I have since distributed to lots of friends who all like it too (had just read email from colleague mentioning how much he checks it).
Good in a slightly different way is 'living earth' app, which shows winds (not as cool as these) but also temp maps.
You can see how the temps and winds interact to generate the weather we're getting. When we've had cold snaps, it is nearly always mild in Canada's far north. Now when we're having mild weather (fb friends in Scandinavia have been commenting in their usual warmth too), the cold reaches right down inside the continent. Fascinating stuff.
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Ah - sorry - hadn't seen the previous post (been away and unable to check in most of the time)
I'll check out the living earth app when I've worked my way through my Inbox...
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I passed that link on to my better half and it was well appreciated. Very neat.
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A Rising Tide (1/2) by the Magnificent Octopus, on Flickrtook me a while to upload this.
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I would not have fancied coming back from the island with that tide coming in
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This coming Saturday sees the beginning of the driest 4 months of the year for Edinburgh. My garden could certainly do with less water, that's for sure.
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Yep, lot of water about -
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KG5 park slightly soggy.Posted 11 years ago # -
Have any brave souls been on the infamous WoL Colinton path over the weekend?
I'm almost tempted out of morbid curiosity to go up there tomorrow and see what the rain has done. Have a bike with a chain due for a scrubbing anyway so it wouldn't be too inconvenient. It did occur to me that since if you ride along there without guards you come back with at least a solid kilo of muck on you, that if you got enough people to do that continuously you could clean it up while having fun* at the same time. What we'd need is an in depth scientific study of the average amount of muck per meter, when a bike becomes saturated with muck and can hold no more, and probably a few other things like where to put the muck after bike cleaning.
Note to anyone from the council reading this: If you do take on this idea, I want at least 25% of the money you would have spent instead on actually surfacing and draining the damn thing properly.
*Subjectively speaking.
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I have not been on the WoL path but there have been some very mucky pups arriving in Balerno recently.
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Spotted on the Independent website last night, something like "Britain shivers as the mercury struggles to rise above 5C in the mildest areas".
A quick check of the average daily temperature range for London in January; it's 2.6 - 8.3C.
So the less scaremongering sub-editor might rewrite that as "things about normal for this time of year, not too hot, not too cold, just right".
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"Britain shivers as the mercury struggles to rise above 5C in the mildest areas".
Well, as any self-respecting granny would say: "Put a jumper on, Britain. And don't even think about going outside without a hat and gloves."
Oh! The hardship.
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