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You can get weather data from the met office if you can give a good reason eg research. Google BADC.
@kenny I'm not sure what weather station you're referring to but if it's CEH or Edinburgh University you may be able to get an explanation for any odd patterns that you are seeing.
There was ice on car windscreens in Dalkeith this am after the rain last night but I didn't notice any on the roads (even ours which isn't gritted). Maybe worse further out. The pavements were being gritted on Gimerton Road.
Yep ice on vehicles in West Fife near sea level this morning. Pavement slippery too.
Very icy on the cars in Livi this morning. Roads were all fine though.
My neighbour was pouring kettle-water on her windscreen just as I left but there was no ice on Leith links or Hawthornvale-Roseburn.
my car said it was minus 1
"there was no ice on Leith links or Hawthornvale-Roseburn"
Was there evidence of gritting?
Back end slipped out on Leamington Bridge this am. On the wooden bits with the wrongly orientated parallel 'grippy' metal strips...
No evidence of gritting. No evidence of my neighbour having gone over them with her kettle, either.
There was some evidence of a large-wheeled vehicle having been driven along the east-west chunk of NEPN, squidging the leafmulch at the side into ridges as it went, which will be Clarenced. They've also finally put back three of the five escaped wall-top slabs at Ravelston.
Had a couple of 'moments' on the canal towpath. One front, one back.
And the nearer my destination, the more I was slip sliding away so I suspect it was ice and the further from town the colder it got.
Now, am I going to buy studded tyres for my remaining eight commutes here or just rip my jacket and fall in the canal?
Broomhouse path was slippy under foot this morning.
Rime on the ground around Featherhall in Corstorphine this morning.
Was out for a run and there were some slippery sections of bike path:
#1: From the bridge at the end of Corbiehill Ave down to the Blackhall path.
#2: East of the bridge at the top of Silverknowes Rd.
@IWRATS what time were you on the canal this morning? I am running gradually later to maximise daylight and in the hope that frost or ice will have cleared, although there were a few distinctly slippy sections this morning which encouraged me to slow down and take it easier. I'm also becoming increasingly cautious about passing on the outside on the aqueduct and under bridges since my tyres tend to slide on the wet cobbles, let alone frost/ice so a set of winter tyres may soon be on my buy-list as well.
Simple answer on the aqueduct - get off and walk !
I wouldnt ride on that in teh wet anymore, never mind frost. It has deteriorated a bit over the last few years and there are sections close to the edge I simply wouldnt trust.
@jdanielp
My lizard hind-brain has insisted that I also await light. Lift-off was at 08h35, so I'd have hit the canal at 08h55.
I'll be riding in an even more cautious style than usual on the way home.
@Nelly I think that I may start to do that on occasion!
@IWRATS I was somewhat ahead of you then - LHL was just exiting the aqueduct as I was approaching for reference.
@IWRATS/jdanielp. That's odd: I headed west on the canal at around 0745 and didn't notice any ice whatsoever anywhere. I looked in the places I normally see it (Meggetland access path, the smooth bit of path near the bike counter in Wester Hailes) and there wasn't any. Didn't feel any loss of control anywhere either.
Maybe it's my Marathon Pluses and their exemplary road holding. Marathon Winters are still in the attic...
@Greenroofer
It was curious. Puddles were liquid, but the slips were real. I did think 'diesel' on the first one, but how could diesel get on the towpath?
I now run Marathon Plus too, because you told me to in you role as Chief Cyclist. They seem good.
THERE'S A BIKE COUNTER IN WESTER HAILES?
Exploring new routes to new office in Linlithgow took me away from the main road but onto untravelled, ungritted shared path with frozen-over puddles. First time I've had to really pay attention that kind of thing this year. A few years back we'd have been up to our armpits in snow already so be thankful!
@Greenroofer there was definitely ice on the Leamington lifting bridge, although the newish grippy strips meant that I didn't come into contact with that. It then felt fine (other than wet cobbles under bridges) until beyond Polwarth, when I started to become a little uneasy about frostiness and potential ice. I think that it was mostly just frostiness however, but I did sense a lack of grip on a couple of occasions which prompted me to slow down. I didn't really feel particularly at risk at any point.
@IWRATS: There are other people on this forum who are more deserving of the title Chief Cyclist...
The thing I referred to as a bike counter is, I expect, defunct. It's the grey box thing on a post on the bit to the west of the police station where the road comes really close to the towpath (and where I got drenched by a bus the other day). It often has a puddle next to it. I've always assumed it was a bike counter, anyway.
I slipped on the path leading to the canal just before Hailes Quarry Park. Still not completely sure if it was ice or leaf mulch that was my downfall. That bit of tarmac is shaded all day at this time of year, so the fact it was lunchtime didn't help.
I have one plaster's worth of weeping graze, thanks to my lackadaisical approach to the canal.
@Greenroofer
I stole the Chief Cyclist from my favourite online riposte to a car-driver anti-bike rant; 'I'll pass your comments on to the Chief Cyclist, Bradley Wiggins'.
Frost on the car windscreens in Balerno, up at City hospital and similar elevations
Nothing on the road, much grit had been spread. Including gritter came up from blinkbonny onto lanark road west at about 7.35a.m. And spread all over my front wheel
Skidded slightly on one of the studs at Gillespie x road tonight
Any one being out recently ? I have an appointment with the pub, will take the Edinburgh park cycle path, then the NERN if not icy?
*Should* be OK -
I'm now wondering whether I need to use the MTB with spikes on tomorrow, as it's pretty slippy outside this evening. That said, it is not due to go below 2°C tonight allegedly, so maybe my route along main roads and the NEPN will not require it. Thoughts...?
Was glad of spiky tyres after 9 this morning on the way out to the Gyle.
That's where I start from, and it was a full 4°C colder when I completed my morning commute down near Leith...
I've just been out on the MTB with spiky front tyre. It's definitely required.
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