BBC weather says its will be windy in the morning
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"Severe weather warning"
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Wee bit blowy out
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Doesn't sound that bad most of the time. Would I be foolish to try to cycle west?
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It is pretty windy. Trains (to Livingston) are out, so I go a lift with a colleague and the car was shifting around as we were going along the motorway. We were commenting that it would be a good test for the Queensferry Crossing. There were signs up saying the old Bridge is closed to double decker busses.
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Tree down on the nepn between Telford Bridge and Craigleith
Passible on foot via the verge.
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Bit blowy right enough. Occasional severe gusts which could catch you out on a bike as they are unpredictable. Otherwise it's not really that bad.
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Getting windier.
‘Forecast’ to increase until lunch time then gradually subside.
Little rain expected which is disappointing in greenery/gardening sense.
Yeah gusts, will venture out later on a ‘heavy’ bike.
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Oh, also lots of fallen branches all over the place etc. so watch out on paths.
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Walked to work, and glad I did.
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The wind sounds worse than it is (at least going east) but my commute this morning was absolute hell due to horrific driving (further confirming my theory that good drivers stay away from the roads in poor weather so you end up with the less good ones). Impatient MGIF overtaking so that I was almost blown into the side of a Range Rover by a gust, squeezed between a car overtaking too closely on the right and another steaming out of a side road on the left, and to top it all a car appearing really rather fast from the blind corner going the wrong way down Leven Terrace. Branches all over NMW a very minor issue in comparison.
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I made it to Heriot-Watt along the towpath ok without getting wet from either rain or falling in the canal, and was only blown to an almost halt on a few occasions... I chose to walk over the Slateford Aqueduct but others were still cycling over it. A lot of debris on the path here and there.
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@jdanielp surely your swans would effect a rescue if you fell in? Guided by kingfisher spotters.
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Very windy up in Dundee today. Even windier than fair Edina.
Trains on East Coast line running normally, though the sound of the wind howling around the carriages can be disconcerting at times!
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I made it under Steveo's tree still on bike. little triangular space.
Tree also down on WoL path just before the flyover of the A70
THis one you can get round but watch out for the nettles, I was stung (ALDi socks so trendy they are below the ankle)
Was windy heading back from Leith and also as I was early bpough coffee from nice cafe on Duke St. Took two sips, put it behind bike rack to lock bike, wind swirled and blew it all over the car park. Should have but a stone on top of it.
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@unhurt I'm not entirely sure about that! The adult swans of the original canal family were out on the narrow part of the towpath just next to Boroughmuir Plaza yesterday evening (the cygnets were more sensibly nestled in the reeds just alongside them) and one of them made a half-hearted but nevertheless menacing peck in my direction as I cycled by before stopping to have a chat with Big John. He was waiting for his wife and daughter to emerge from the trampoline place just over the road at Fountain Park.
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Yup, the canal was littered with debris, feared I would get blown into the water a few times but a lovely fast cruise at lunchtime with a tail wind and relatively few peds compared to morning, way home will be by road and a nasty headwind I suppose.
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Deep drifts of green leaves on Dalkeith Road, along with many sizable branches.
A few painful slaps in the face from flying debris but otherwise manageable.
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It was little windy on way to work this problem the main issue I had was bits of trees all over the road had to avoid many twigs
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princes street gdns closed all day?
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I'm about to leave for a BBQ 40th birthday party. Might take a tarp and/or swimsuit.
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@unhurt, not that cold maybe wetsuit?
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I'm melting...
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Be grateful you're not on the west coast. 32 celsius over there today!
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Rain!
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AT LAST!
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Rain as forecast today which is good as I went with the prediction and used the old weed killer the other day in the hope it would do its damage then be washed away today
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