You will another hail storm in Edinburgh maybe in 20-30min? (don't exactly know how long it takes for it to travel 15miles)
CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Commuting
"Severe weather warning"
(7379 posts)-
Posted 4 years ago #
-
@bill
It hit about 16h50 as I was running on Craigmillar Hill. My run therefore counted triple. Rain double, frozen rain of any type triple.
Posted 4 years ago # -
I wish to apologise for this morning's hail in South Edinburgh!
Given that cycling will be curtailed quite a bit as now having to WFH, I cleaned the Brompton, oiled the chain and set off to do some recycling before picking up a few supermarket items.... I only made it to the top of our street before it started drizzling and by the time I got to the next street it was properly pouring. Turned round to head back to the house so bike didn't get dirty and it started hailing!
None of this was in the weather forecast - I was looking forward to the white clouds and sunshine the BBC forecast had been promising at 06:00 on my day off! - Having been hacked off on Monday and Tuesday going in to work in beautiful weather and being right royally soaked at night I was looking forward to not needing to put waterproof trousers on.......
Posted 4 years ago # -
Wester Hailes and Longstone roads were freshly gritted this evening.
Posted 4 years ago # -
@Arrellcat. when we bought our second hand car we had to pay them extra to fit the mudflaps. Cant remember how much but it wasn't crazy and I negotiated with them to do a bunch more stuff as well. But yes apparently mudflaps are now no longer standard.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Yip A70 gritted tonight. Crisp out and was light when I left the office after 6pm
Posted 4 years ago # -
@ARobComp, I suspect the only cars that have mudflaps nowadays are Land Rover Defenders, in full on Emmerdale Farm guise.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Quite a lot of frost on grass around the bypass and then more and more as you went west. Pavements frosty were white in West Lothian. Roads were mostly fine expect for Clifton Rd which has a long section covered in black ice (it was actually brown from the mud) and my read wheel kept slipping through.
As I was waiting at the traffic lights in Livingston I enjoyed observing long jets of water vapour I was producing with my breath (a driver in the next lane started laughing at it). The sun was right behind me and I was creating a shadow over that self produced cloud. I kid you not: I could see colours -- diffracted light in it -- like in Brocken spectrum. Surely that's plausible and I didn't imagine it!(?)
Posted 4 years ago # -
@bill well it may be possible for you as Super Human Powers have a funny distribution?
Posted 4 years ago # -
@bill
There was a rainbow cloud over East Lothian on Sunday. Not a rainbow, just a mother of pearl cloud. Crazy stuff, light.
Posted 4 years ago # -
@IWARTS Amazing!
Do we need a "Light highlight of the day" thread?Posted 4 years ago # -
Frosty as you predicted Bill. I am staying indoors.
Very flat rainbows over East Lothian last Thursday around 13.00hrs
Posted 4 years ago # -
@bill
A thread on light? A whole forum surely? One of my most precious memories is watching a dye laser scanning across its range in a dark laboratory. Laser light is weird. Your eyes don't know what to do with it.
Posted 4 years ago # -
@IWRATS, you is going a bit Roy Batty on our asses there.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Bill, Brocken Specters appear when the sun shines from behind the person seeing the Specter. The Wikipedia article has a photo of one formed by car headlights on mist so it is entirely possible that you saw one.
Posted 4 years ago # -
The lightest "snowstorm" I've ever seen this morning. About 5 minutes between seeing snowflakes. Took a few "flurries" to be sure I wasn't seeing things.
Posted 4 years ago # -
So warm this morning that there was no appreciable cooling effect as I set off.
Posted 4 years ago # -
(Probably not Scotland)
Posted 4 years ago # -
Pretty foul out where the bay city rollers used to live this morning. Too hot in goretex so just got wet. Once heading back with tailwind all was well
Posted 4 years ago # -
The change from mild with sunny spells afternoon to overcast with northerly wind was very sudden. You could literally feel the weather front pass by: windows slammed shut and a chilly breeze swept through the house before I closed the remaining openings.
You'll have had your spring then? Meanwhile relatives in mid-Wales sunbathing in back garden in 26 degrees centigrade sunshine...
Posted 4 years ago # -
Just remarked in similar vein out here in sticks. Went from cool but pleasant to guy dreich.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Sorry that was me. I ...... pitched a tent.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Nope. My fault. Was gardening in the sun and told MrSrd to put on a lighter jersey before going out on a long ride this afternoon.
Posted 4 years ago # -
So.....forecast said mild (13C) and sunny this aft, but cold in morning. Looked hopeful with sunshine earlier, but now a tad chilly and overcast. Sigh.
Posted 4 years ago # -
There was quite a lot of frost on the ground level vegetation this morning west of Edinburgh. But it was lovely sunny, so can't complain too much.
Rapeseed in Ratho getting proper yellow.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Hm, this might be why the forecast is slightly off...
---
One victim turns out to be the weather forecast. With far fewer planes crossing the Atlantic, harvesting meteorological statistics by the tens of thousands each day, the mighty computers that crunch weather patterns have much less data collection as feedstock.
So if weather forecasters are going unusually wide of the mark in the next few weeks and months, that may be yet another unexpected consequence of unbelievable times.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-52212510
Posted 4 years ago # -
Picked windiest part of the day to go out for state sanctioned exercise. Was sunny so not so bad. Later than usual so lot more boy racers out for a drive.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Anecdata reveal the following patterns of behaviour.
Yesterday: sunny, warm, lots of folk out and about on foot, bicycles.
Today: cooler, fresh breeze, streets largely empty of pedestrians, shops quiet, traffic levels on "quiet" streets almost back to pre-virus levels of rat-running, deliveries, shopping trips, etc.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Hope it's a bit cooler for
workingexercising on the allotment this weekend; was almost a 'taps aff' scenario last weekend which would almost certainly get me arrested.Posted 4 years ago # -
Forecast cooler snowy so you wont be going to the cooler
Posted 4 years ago #
Reply »
You must log in to post.
posts
