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IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years old!
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"this was the blustery type that eases off for just a second giving you a very short relief, before coming back and hitting you full on"
Yep.
Strange, thing is it feels like it's coming from all directions, but the KB weather station says it's pretty much from the west.
The windows are rattling up here on the 6th floor of my work.
Looks like a headwind all the way home and I took the upright pootler to work today! Might as well have brought an anchor as well!
What you really need for headwinds is this:
Which, as per the description, can go directly into the wind faster than the wind itself, powered by the wind. Although it's maybe a little large and unwieldy to be of much use on the towpath.
If you want to waste an evening, google about for the story behind that cart, also look for the downwind faster than the wind version, as when it was proposed a few years ago a great number of people said it was impossible to do so the guy ended up building the thing to prove otherwise. There is a physics based explanation of why something so unintuitive is possible though it took me a long time and several headaches to understand it.
Sorry, I'll stop blowing this thread off topic now....
I wish to apologise for today's downturn in the weather... no rain / windshell and (gasp horror) first day of fingerless gloves this year!
From west and very strong, following previous four days of calm
That's well cool. Apart from being called something far too close to "Jobby"
Aye, the wind tonight certainly meant I was almost always in a lower gear the whole way home, registering 15% more pedal strokes than normal. Looks like much the same over the weekend, unfortunately.
First shorts day of the year for me. Hands sweated up something awful, will wear fingerless mitts tomorrow.
I spotted a shorts-wearing cyclist today - you were not wearing a red, possibly Altura jacket were you?
I wore shorts all last week and again today.
Just in -
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Showers will turn heavy and possibly thundery across southern and some central parts of Scotland this afternoon. Although some areas will avoid the showers completely, other locations could see rainfall accumulations 10 to 15 mm in an hour or less, and 20 to 30 mm in just a few hours. The public should be aware that some disruption due to surface water flooding is possible. The heavier showers will die away again this evening.
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http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/zoo-closes-as-freak-rainstorm-hits-lothians-1-3422554
(Bit late for a warning! Don't know if such heavy rain had been forecast.)
We seem to get one of these "freak" rainstorms every year now. Shouldn't that make them less "freaky"?
Clermiston Road turned in to a fast flowing river yesterday - it was quite something.
Although I now have to find a builder as water came through our ceiling.
One of the underpasses under Maybury Drive was a couple of inches deep in mud this morning. From the look of the tide marks the water must have got to a couple of feet deep.
I didn't spot it until I was committed and had to hope that I didn't slip over or need to put a foot down.
Some footprints in it - the alternative is a bad unmarked crossing of the dual carriageway.
West Team are aware.
The path up the hill from the Cramond Brig has become substantially worse with all the leaves which still haven't been cleared from autumn washing down the hill and now covering the path at the bend.
Who would I report it to?
West_team on twitter or use Clarence via Edinburgh.gov.uk
Think there will need to be quite a bit of tidying up from yesterday.
@Chdot My metcheck forecast (from Saturday, for Sunday) which is still sitting unrefreshed in my browser, had predicted about 15mm of rain in the 24hours, with the afternoon particularly given as "light" rain with 0.7mm per 3 hours from 12-3 and 3-6.
Just a little wrong...
I was in my car about 1.30pm heading through the west of the city and drains were fountaining pillars of water because there was no room in the system. The road under the railway line at Chesser was probably about 8in deep - most cars were doing a great impression of speedboats (which causes more problems than trundling gently, don't they know?) so I pootled through and didn't raise much of a bow wave.
Everywhere, sheets of water covered the roads - nothing seemed to be going down into the drains. Impressive to experience.
My favourite from Sunday was the waterfall pouring over the wall from India Street into North West Circus Place five about half. Quite impressive.
I managed to avoid all of yesterday's rain, but got caught out today.
One of the underpasses under Maybury Drive was a couple of inches deep in mud this morning. From the look of the tide marks the water must have got to a couple of feet deep.
Yep, I've seen photos on the wife's FB showing it totally submerged.
I ran up Gogar Station Road last night and discovered half way up that it was entirely covered in water. The only way to get across was to go on the side without a pavement, where it was shallowest.
This usually happens in July, so the only freaky thing about it is that it came a little earlier than usual. Maybe it'll happen in July too.
Is it true that no one running the marathon in Edinburgh yesterday got soaked?
Is it true that no one running the marathon in Edinburgh yesterday got soaked?
If you ran it under 4 hours you should have escaped the rain. Anywhere over 4:30 and I think they got damp.
Apologies, it was getting dark when I took these.
Mud mud glorious mud by HankChief, on Flickr
Mud mud glorious mud by HankChief, on Flickr
I informed West_Team early this morning, but not been sorted. Appreciate that it is a bank holiday ( for some) but the schools were in today and plenty of kids will again have to traipse through this tomorrow morning..
Would it be the same response if a road was blocked?
Still not sorted today...
Is it unreasonable to expect CEC to attend to a blocked (or at least very very muddy) path within 48 hours?
Is it unreasonable to expect CEC to attend to a blocked (or at least very very muddy) path within 48 hours?
Not so sure I'd say unreasonable, but I think you're probably being very optimistic. Considering the damage elsewhere caused by the rain, I suspect muddy paths are fairly low on their priority list.
@kenny fair point. It's the lack of viable alternative that makes this spot a particular problem though.
Fixed today. Just as well given tonights rain.
They are coming back tomorrow with the pressure washers to give it a complete clean.
You beat me to it. I was going to say that it looked like a digger had shoveled it out when I passed tonight.
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