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  1. ejstubbs
    Member

    Went out for a donder round the local roads and paths on my gravel bike this evening - just to get out of the house as much as anything. Mostly good going but the burnside path through Braidburn Valley Park had quite a few largeish patches of hard-packed slush which was obviously resisting thawing, and indeed was quite slippy in places.

    Supposed to be even less cold tomorrow, but another frosty snap to follow.

    (Unplugging my recharged battery lights just now, I suddenly thought: "Oops, I forgot to put the bike's battery on charge. Oh, hang on...")

    Posted 3 years ago #
  2. chdot
    Admin

    9pm

    Killer Storms and Cruel Winters - The History of Extreme Weather

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04c36md

    Posted 3 years ago #
  3. chdot
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  4. unhurt
    Member

    Inverleith Park model boating pond is knee deep...

    Posted 3 years ago #
  5. chdot
    Admin

    “Inverleith Park model boating pond is knee deep...“

    Seems likely if it was purpose built for model boats.

    Probably photos without water somewhere!

    Posted 3 years ago #
  6. chdot
    Admin

    Ah yes -

    EMBC Boating Pond Inverleith Pond was constructed as a model boating pond in the 1890's. It has a puddle clay base and a surrounding tarmac walkway The pond is approximately 2 feet deep at its edges increasing to about 3 feet in the middle - 'wader depth'!

    https://www.edinburghmbc.org.uk/boating-pond

    Posted 3 years ago #
  7. acsimpson
    Member

    I recall being told that the depth of Blackford pond isn't much more than that. Although I can't find any reference agreeing with it.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  8. fimm
    Member

    There was a chap skating on Craiglockhart pond the other day. He had an area he was sticking to - wisely - as interestingly there was an area of open water near the leisure center that all the birds were using.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  9. gembo
    Member

    Lot of ice on the Lang Whang west of Balerno this morning.

    More traffic too than during the last lockdown

    Sunny and a massive flock of small passerines. We had been going with Speugs but as I was going even more slowly than usual I confirmed the white chevron on the wing and a pinkish tinge to the breast plumage. I am say8ng a massive flock therefore of Britain’s second commonest bird

    Posted 3 years ago #
  10. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    My grandfather recovered the wreck of my toy sailing boat from the bottom of the boating pond in the Duthie Park using a borrowed pair of waders. I suspect it was a curling pond back when water froze.

    I called the boat 'Speedy' and it sank very quickly without warning to my great distress.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  11. chdot
    Admin

    Obviously you weren’t in a garden.

    https://www.discoverwildlife.com/news/wren-commonest-bird/

    Posted 3 years ago #
  12. Frenchy
    Member

    I recall being told that the depth of Blackford pond isn't much more than that. Although I can't find any reference agreeing with it.

    Mean depth is apparently 0.9m, according to the thesis of a former colleague who collected microbial samples from it a few years ago.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  13. gembo
    Member

    Thriepmuir Reservoir shallow at edges but the crazy ice swimmers had to pull out a person encouraged by their activities to go on ice who fell through.

    They used their axe.

    Bavelaw is really a flood plain for a wee burn wee stumps of trees

    Harlaw deeper with undertow very dangerous that is what the cormorant that sits on the wheel house told me

    Posted 3 years ago #
  14. minus six
    Member

    Scarcely used shared use footway adjacent B800 Kirkliston - Sth Queensferry with easy roadside van access gritted ?

    EASY PEASY, YEAH, WE GOT ROUND TO IT EVENTUALLY

    Popular NCN 1 cycleway adjacent to A90 gritted ?

    NEVER, NOT EVER, USE AT YER OWN RISK

    Posted 3 years ago #
  15. chdot
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  16. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Ca'canny folks. Guy skity kind.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  17. gembo
    Member

    Not sure it rose above zero today. Sparkly as out on the boulevards

    Posted 3 years ago #
  18. chdot
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  19. steveo
    Member

    Walked to the garage to pick up the car I ended walking the entire length of the Broomhouse path on the grass, the path looked a trifle treacherous.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  20. minus six
    Member

    brutal 40km in the freezing sleet today, but a welcome return to the marathon winters, peace of mind innit

    Posted 3 years ago #
  21. SRD
    Moderator

    MMW well gritted today. my first time out on my winters too.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  22. chdot
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  23. chdot
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    Posted 3 years ago #
  24. chdot
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  25. amir
    Member

    Quite a bit of snow in Eskbank - 5cm?. A wee bit wet.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  26. gembo
    Member

    White out Balerno. We had that last week but Leith had nothing. Think it has even reached Porty today?

    Posted 3 years ago #
  27. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Snow at the 73m contour line. 15mm maybe? Bit wet.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  28. wingpig
    Member

    The sleet was trying to stay frozen on the green bin lid last night but it's all away now.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  29. chdot
    Admin

  30. mcairney
    Member

    Only a very light dusting in my back garden in Musselburgh. Nothing at the front

    Posted 3 years ago #

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