Last night our forecast (bbc weather app) was for light snow and some heavy snow this morning. Then it changed to just light snow. Now only a couple of intervals of snow, and then rain. Boo!
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Posted 9 years ago #
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Didn't chance Broomhouse Path on my commute this morning but it looked like it had patches of frost and ice from my road vantage point.
There were a fair number of frozen puddles at the edges of the road, particularly along Stenhouse Drive through to Bankhead Drive.
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Anyone been on the towpath yet this morning? Trying to decide between a cautious cycle or just taking a bus.
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Doesn't seem to be icy in Livingston (she says unhelpfully). Just a scattering of snow.
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Passable (with care) conditions on normal tyres this morning. Wish I had put the ice ones on though for a more relaxing ride.
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Linlithgow cold and slushy but not treacherous. The streets have been too heavily gritted for that, I think.
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Frozen puddles around Restalrig Road and on the Restalrig Railway Path.
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snow this morning at 7:45 southside but only very briefly….
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The towpath didn't seem too bad from my perspective (no winter tyres), but it did start to snow patchily after I joined the canal, which prompted me to stop to attach my hood and put my waterproof trousers on - this turned out to be an overreaction in retrospect... In fact, the bits that concerned me the most were not actually due to snow and ice; at the 'S' bend beyond WHEC someone had dropped and broken a tile, and then there was some broken glass approaching the chicane at the Calder Road bridge.
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People coming back from their lunches whining about snow, sleet and "icy cold" air in EH1...
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Clearly a different weather system between Fife and Edinburgh this morning. Cold but mildish in Dunfermline when I left this morning but got progressively colder until I reached Crammond Brig, crossed the bridge when I hit unsighted black ice, rear wheel kicked out and I came flying off! Wasn't going that fast but came down pretty hard. Rode very tentatively all the way into town thereafter after it became clear there was a lot of ice on the paths and roads.
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I must be too close to the sea... Has been a beautiful day out in Duddingston, save for one very brief snow flurry just after I'd decided I could do the ride out to IKEA for a couple of things tomorrow...
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@deckard112
Ouch. Living up to your username? :)
Often black ice at Cramond Brig - I've hit the deckard myself there in the past. I think the cold air gathers down at river level. If it's about 3-4 degrees or lower when I leave home (on the Fife coast), then I mentally prepare myself for ice at Cramond Brig.
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Seemed fine if a tad blowy on my wee spin into town this morning. Sunny too!
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I think the cold air gathers down at river level.
My dad (a physicist) once tried to explain to me why bridges ice up (and why the water under canal bridges doesn't). Something about black-body radiation which i didn't really follow.
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Snowing again in South Gyle at the moment.
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A brisk and heavy snow shower has just passed over Livingston. Fear not, if it hits Edinburgh, it is nice and sunny again here now.
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now at George square
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Supposed to be heavy snow from 6/7 tonight, all the way through to Tue morning.
Resigned to another day in the car tomorrow :(
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Left work promptly to avoid snowfall and first flake fell as I arrived in my front yard. Fell heavily for five minutes then stopped.
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I was about to leave work by bike only for the snow to start falling like crazy again so I have opted for a lift with a friend - here's hoping it turns to rain tomorrow so that I feel ok about cycling home then...
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Snow's lying heavily in Polwarth. Glad MrSRD took the snow-tyred bike tonight.
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Get your ice tyres on, folks, (if you have them). Snow is very slushy and I assume if it freezes overnight there will be lots of icy pavements and paths.
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Finally my laziness at taking the studded tyres back off the bike may well pay off.
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Hmm. Soggy snow over a refrozen slush base. If I hadn't taken the rear spikes off the sparebike it would be an easier decision...
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As Wingpig says on side roads. Main roads (at least the little bit I use) fine. But be very very wary of the snow.
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Right, own up. Who took your spikes off last? It's all your fault! :)
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Was going to put an entry in the "I had a lovely ride today thank you" thread, but I keep getting a timeout trying to put it.
Worked until 11 pm last night and was going to save myself 15 minutes by going by train with the bike but decided I'd resent work even more if it stopped me doing my cycle in.
Really glad still to have the spikes on for ice on the Fife side, and the last 10km or so was on lovely crisp snow. An absolute pleasure to ride on.
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There's an annoying number of cyclists out today.
Annoying? Yes. It's just reminding me that I wimped out of cycling and am suffering the pleasures of the bus.
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I only have my road bike, I can't really walk anywhere at the moment for an annoying cut on my right heel and I resent the circuitous route the 35 bus takes so I hopped on my slick-tyred steed this morning. As I was waiting to get going on my bike from Chesser Avenue (which were the first black roads I saw after leaving my house), I'm sure a fellow cyclist muttered "mad" as he cycled past on his MTB.
Was it the shorts or the slicks you didn't like?
By 07:15, there had been enough traffic to either turn any snow on the busier roads to slush or completely clear it. South Gyle Crescent was fairly hairy though. Cycling on snow without spikes is an amazing core workout!
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