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"Severe weather warning"
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Posted 3 years ago #
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winter bike hose down
after faux by four showdown
inna 2021 lockdown
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^ mark e smith vocal style
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Nice ah poem ah Bax ah
Went on canal towpath, slushy, came back road.
Canal itself is a sort of grey mare’s milk, gunmetal colour.
Big John was gien it laldy at Harrison, his pal seemed oblivious to their two centimetre social distancing and big John’s prodigious amount of sputum. No masks.
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Maybe too late for these, but for next cold spell...
https://road.cc/content/news/cycling-live-blog-16-february-2021-280943
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Big John was gien it laldy at Harrison
big john duncan ?
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Not inconceivable. Big John Duncan once invited a woman I knew in Glasgow to walk up Arthur’s seat with him. Maggie, the woman I knew in Glasgow originally grew up in Balerno,of all places.
Big John of the towpath, has his mum’s house in Balerno, a base in Wester Hailes and a foothold in Eyemouth.
He is not a huge fan of the following - cyclists on the towpath, the council, council employees, local councillors etc.
He tolerates me and J DanielP. His handshake is strong and lengthy, there is little doubt he thinks a handshake is about crushing the other person’s fingers. He does like the movies and getting out and about on walks and looking at the world and nature, he does often have a bag that will contain several items, sometimes shopping, sometimes dvds.
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Schlepped out to Colzium today in baselayer, merino sport wool long sleeve and breathable cagoule was approaching boil in the bag at top of Balerno but fourunately found cold weather, wind and rain at colzium, busy with nice dog walkers at Colzium. I think it might have been something like ten mins from where the Colzium road meets the A70 to the Glenbrook turn. Six miles approx . I was pedalling quite hard but in the big ring all the way. There was what you might call a tail wind
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Well they got the forecast for today wrong. As recently as 2am they were still saying it would be dry with sunny spells. By mid-morning that had shifted to heavy rain. Yeah, I could have told them that...
Hopefully tomorrow will be a bit better.
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@crowriver, checked aboutm11pm last night and wind direction was being given as south easterly but given my return speed I am very certain Twas a souwesterly.
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Bit more southerly tomorrow (maybe)
https://www.yr.no/en/forecast/hourly-table/2-2650225/United%20Kingdom/Scotland/Edinburgh/Edinburgh
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It said that around 130mm of rain had been recorded as falling at the Rest and Be Thankful since early Friday morning, with 280mm recorded in total throughout the week. It said the rainfall had contributed to an already saturated hillside following "significant snowmelt" brought on by milder temperatures.
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100,000 tonnes of debris
Or, a sheep-wrecked hillside under assault from an increasingly chaotic climate.
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Presumably it would have been much cheaper to just do a compulsory purchase of that hillside and rewild it or even plant some trees/shrubs. But hey, can't upset the landowners now can we?
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Should bill the landowner.
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Stormy weather tomorrow, folks. Heavy rain and 50mph winds forecast for most of the day.
Just as well I packed in a couple of days of allotmenteering then instead of leaving it until the morra...
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Land above a road: debris.
Land below a road: ditch.Posted 3 years ago # -
The dramatic weather forecast gave me an excuse from early morning cycle rides, having a nice walk instead. But the fact that it's still dry at 0915 is making me feel guilty. Oh, the traumas of cycling addiction.
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it's just hit Polwarth.
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How about at 0916?
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“Stormy weather tomorrow, folks. Heavy rain and 50mph winds forecast for most of the day.“
Alternative forecast?
Looks more like a bit windy later and some rain.
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It was unexpectedly dry when I went out for my walk this morning, along the Lymphoy Road between Currie and Balerno but the storm arrived at exactly 8:32 on my way back. I know this as I'd just looked at my watch and then stepped to the side of the track to let the large vehicle that I could hear approaching fast from behind me go past. Looking back, there was no vehicle - just a lot of trees bending hard in the sudden blast of a roaring wind that continued with me all the way home, finally summoning its rain showers just as I reached home.
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"Presumably it would have been much cheaper to just do a compulsory purchase of that hillside and rewild it or even plant some trees/shrubs. But hey, can't upset the landowners now can we?"
Planned but operating at the same glacial pace as everything else in official Scotland and like bringing a peashooter to a gunfight now.
"Whatever date the farmer officially decided to stop using the land for grazing, it appears that eventually FLS was forced to buy out the entire 760 hectares of the upper Glen Croe farm, including the summit of Ben Ime and land to the east, in order to enable woodland restoration to happen.
The purchase again appears to have taken an inordinate length of time. While the land is now in public ownership, the date of sale and the price has not yet been logged on the Registers of Scotland. In retrospect, rather than FLS negotiating with the farmer, it might have been a lot quicker if Transport Scotland had used its powers to compulsorily purchase the land to protect the A83. But that would have meant challenging the powers of landowners to manage their land as they wish and the Scottish Government is reluctant to do this when when it would clearly be in the public interest."
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I miss timed my commute this am. If I had gone out straight from waking up I think would have stayed dry.
Just before BollO Bere steadying on the a70 (turn to Glenbrook) the wind particularly strong
Rained on at butelamd. Two farmers then cutting hedges with massive tractors and machinery and then massive HGV flatbed heading up Cockburnhill but the hurl along rig road was fun with tail wind. Gusts flinging you about though. Rain sore where it smashes into you
Take care out there.
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Recycling wheelie bin fallen sideways, spitting out some of its contents, and has to be rescued.
Neighbour's blue box is setting out on its journey round the neighbourhood and is retrieved.
Those are the urban weather signs.
"When the winds are blowing high,
Rubbish bins and rubbish fly."Quite mild though.
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Lot of Balerno brown bins on their sides. Post garden clippings being removed.
Squeezed past a tractor cutting hedgerow, blew lot of clippings on to my goretex but wind and rain removed this detritus later on
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Poor bin guys have had to wrestle with the bins. I've collected mine and it was something of a struggle. There are some wild gusts out there.
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The clennie today left the bins very in the way, not sure why usually abandoned further down the street. But today neat so was able to take neighbours’ in for them then my own without a trek
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@chdot, "Alternative forecast?"
Hardly. BBC Weather. Can't get less alternative than that.
However they have again this morning revised their forecast to high winds with some light rain showers. Again, I could have told them that just by looking out the window.
EDIT: To be fair, the radar picture shows VERY heavy rain a bit further West and also to the South. Seems we East Coasters got away lightly once more...
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