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"Severe weather warning"

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  1. jss
    Member

    I did tell the then Mrs SS that we would have saved £9 pounds a week by moving there but she seemed to want more home comforts like electricity and running piped water
    Can’t believe that’s the current price - a small cottage in a very inclement part of the world with I think the kennels of some long forgotten fox hunt attached
    Maybe worth a fiver a week now in reality That’s 500% increase But reality with property values seems to have been suspended

    Posted 2 years ago #
  2. gembo
    Member

    Still off grid too

    Posted 2 years ago #
  3. Greenroofer
    Member

    I chose the wrong legwear for a ride out today to Peebles and Innerleithen. I should have been wearing roubaix tights, but was in shorts. It was [Rule 2] cold.

    Posted 2 years ago #
  4. acsimpson
    Member

    I made a similar mistake for a lap of the Pentlands yesterday evening. I had the longs on but should have had full winter gear as the temperature dipped below zero. Thankfully it warmed up after we stopped for chips in Penicuik.

    Posted 2 years ago #
  5. gembo
    Member

    Penny cook chips apparently under done?

    Posted 2 years ago #
  6. acsimpson
    Member

    They taste good when it's 10 minutes to closing and it's zero degrees out.

    Posted 2 years ago #
  7. gembo
    Member

    Was shorts this morning on the Whang

    Balmy

    Posted 2 years ago #
  8. SRD
    Moderator

    Everyone in the UK cooks chips under done (although Zimbabwe even worse...the things you guys teach your colonies...)

    One recent exception is the bike-friendly Pizza Slice place whose chips were unbelievably good the the first time we had them, and almost as good the second time.

    Posted 2 years ago #
  9. Rosie
    Member

    @SRD - From another colony, NZ, the chips there are very good, as are the fish and chips generally.

    Posted 2 years ago #
  10. chdot
    Admin

    April showers...

    Posted 2 years ago #
  11. chdot
    Admin

  12. mcairney
    Member

    I'd say it's like winter today but that would be doing winter a disservice.

    Posted 2 years ago #
  13. steveo
    Member

    At least working from home I can put the heating on, the office would be freezing on a day like this.

    Posted 2 years ago #
  14. gembo
    Member

    I have my stove on. Please note the wood is bone dry

    Posted 2 years ago #
  15. Morningsider
    Member

    Perfectly normal to be going out at the end of May in full waterproofs and wearing a scarf...

    Posted 2 years ago #
  16. Rosie
    Member

    I was out in my newish waterproof and, oh wonders, it really is waterproof. I did get cold though - I'd cast my clout i.e. one layer.

    "One layer short of the Scottish weather".

    Posted 2 years ago #
  17. Rosie
    Member

    @Morningsider - come on, "rough winds do shake the darling buds of May" - I'm sure I quote that every year, at this time of the year.

    Posted 2 years ago #
  18. crowriver
    Member

    I had to double check the date before heading out today. Yep, definitely 21st of May. Feels more like early March, but with longer daylight hours.

    Posted 2 years ago #
  19. steveo
    Member

    Just means that you can see the dull weather for much longer

    Posted 2 years ago #
  20. gembo
    Member

    Clearing up now in the hills

    Posted 2 years ago #
  21. crowriver
    Member

    @steveo, aye the slate grey clouds oppress the spirit until nearly 10pm!

    Posted 2 years ago #
  22. gembo
    Member

    Bit of a north Westerly we thought this morning.

    Made it out the Whang over from Kaimend to Biggar and from there down the glorious green valley to Broughton. Fantastic cake and coffee from the Broughton Store, then up Dreva, Tweed Valley gorgeous. Then round to Drumelzier all very pretty. Bit of a slog back to Biggar then over to the Clyde and up to Carnwath. Whang was Ok on return but no real tail wind.

    No rain, a bit of sunshine, breeze was moderate just not from the prevailing direction so waiting for the benefits of a tail was a long time coming.

    Posted 2 years ago #
  23. chdot
    Admin

  24. SRD
    Moderator

    Been watching storm approach. First rumbles.

    https://www.lightningmaps.org/?lang=en

    Posted 2 years ago #
  25. SRD
    Moderator

    Torrential here now.

    Posted 2 years ago #
  26. gembo
    Member

    Made it up from England unscathed, even picnic at middle class motorway service station. But stair rods from Bathgate and siling down at Kirknewton.

    Garage roof was a swimming pool I was up on it in the thunder but down when there was a suspicion of. Lightning

    Posted 2 years ago #
  27. chdot
    Admin

    Streets full of water…

    https://twitter.com/edinspotlight/status/1411759576018472967

    Posted 2 years ago #
  28. dessert rat
    Member

    had a post-shower pedal round, Cannonmills, Warriston, Trinity, Stockbridge - all disappointingly unsubmerged, WoL seemed meh - and there was me on the 29er ready for the post-apocalypse hell-scape.

    Posted 2 years ago #
  29. Stickman
    Member

    Exceptionally localised:

    The #weather station at #Edinburgh Royal Botanic Gardens recorded an incredible 40.6mm (1.6inches) of #rain in just one hour between 1700-1800 this evening! …Compare that with only 8.8mm at the neighbouring station at Gogarbank, within the same hour. #showers #flashfloods

    https://twitter.com/bbcscotweather/status/1411786467710492672?s=21

    Posted 2 years ago #
  30. chdot
    Admin


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