Ah no Bill, only Auchinoon Quarry today.
Apple pie Sunday for afternoon tea minus the afternoon tea
Out west there is a little sleet
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@gembo Saw that Apple Pie afternoon tea thing on facebook. Looks very nice. But I don't think I would be able to cycle back after that.
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@SRD - thanks. Winged it and turned out to be just about OK but narrowed in places by snow. Plenty of water running over the road at the top though and cold tonight so expect this report has a very low shelf life.
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Heavy ish showers mostly some rain bit of sleet to west of Kirknewton.
Meanwhile in Saskatoon Canada it is -34 degrees. Cupertino remains fair.
@ Bill tail wind of course. Mrs Pie has plans for us outside but neighbour caused her grief. Dispute over wind blown saplings I think. Carnwath seems riven with disputes. Bit like Balerno.
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@gembo my friends who live in iqaluit area concerned by their warm temps. Not much below freezing. Bad for harbour ice and permafrost
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@srd, not good. I hear the north west passage has become navigable most of year. Zat right?
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Ice warning from 1600 tonight
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We had flurries all yesterday, Only the very intrepid ventured out. Today it is just very very cold
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“Today it is just very very cold“
Around freezing, but extra windchill?
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Yesterday was a facial of east wind and polystyrene bead snow.
Was passed by 2 guys jogging in shorts.
I imagine Robert Falcon Scott was passed by a couple of guys jogging in shorts.
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@ejstubbs
Soft hail? Who knew
What is the difference between snow, grauoel, hail and Rime?
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I got ninety nine words for snow and 'graupel' ain't one.
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It's got a METAR code (GS) so it must exist.
(Did you mean Fifty Words for Snow? Or maybe even 50 Words for Snow? Or do you actually have ninety-nine words for snow in your personal vocabulary? Just wonderin' like...)
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@ejstubbs are you not a fan of Jay-Z? Pronounced Jay-Zee the American way
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Forecast says gonna be blizzardy tonight and tomorrow, then damn cold the rest of the week. Some respite from Sunday possibly...
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@gembo: Not a fan, no (nothing against him, just doesn't really register on my radar). Did he write a song about snow or something? Google is not illuminating.
Anyway, it can't have been that cold today - I passed this lassie out walking her dug earlier:
I was wearing a merino base layer top, a midweight fleece and a windshirt. She was in a t-shirt. I did ask if she wasn't cold and she said she wasn't. Young people, eh?
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Some very very heavy graupel falling softly if stingingly in Balerae the nicht.
Jay Z got 99 problems and the Drift ain’t one
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Some blizzard out there just now!
Not quite Braemar snow drifts but nice to see proper flakes flurrying.
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A snow-plough just drove past my house.
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Meanwhile at Cairn o' Mount today... They don't call it the Snow Roads Audax for nothing.
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amongst my spiritual homelands, the Cairn o' Mount retains a heavyweight seasonal mystique
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particularly thon time in the austin allegro when the front wheel came aff on the descent
ooooft
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wait now.. not an allegro, a maxi
aye, it was a maxi
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Ahin's smoored in sna ken?
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Winter wonderland in Balerno
Did the smaller snow roads audax that only went over cairn o mount once.many years ago. We were back in Kirriemuir long before any of the dufftown lot made it back despite summer the snow roads starts and ends in darkness.
We had a purple maxi as kids, an armchair of a motor.
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The Snow Roads is one of the two Audaxes I've done. My memory is that is was a beautiful early morning when we set off and I just got back without needing my lights.
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@fimm I misspoke when I said darkness, the faster lot were just returning after we had had our slap up meal of forfar birdies and plum duff. Showered changed etc. so was half light and some of them had lights on also when we arrived in half light people were leaving.
The year I was there I think 2009 after the etape had been carpet tacked we retained a level of fitness. However even on the shorter route it was quite tough as very strong east wind which was bad as we went at first to Stonehaven straight into the wind. My companion Big Mitch claimed he was going to have to dismount to be sick going up carin o mount. He is a big lad. He did not dismount to be sick what he meant was FFS Gembo stop for me please. He had I fear bonked. As from Edzell, the last 20 miles back to Kirriemuir I had to stop for him at the top of even the smallest rise. Hilariously, he then tried to beat me through the finish tape as there was a podium place at stake in his head (audax podium places imaginary) so I did have to push him out the way a bit at the finish line to ensure justice was done and seen to be done. Had I not been nursing Mitch I might have caught the lad in second (who had already told me he was injured) though I expect he would then have pushed me out the way at the gate of Kirriemuir Community Centre.
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