It's pretty foggy out. Take care
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Posted 9 years ago #
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Very misty when I was riding home this evening. I actually turned on my 'super emergency bright' rear light on the long drag towards the summit of Edinburgh. Having your eye level at car headlight level doesn't make the dark misty evenings much fun! I also had to take off my cycling
glassesplastics* because they were full of mist.* 'Plutonite', according to the marketing.
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Yup - not enough moisture for it to bead and run off the glasses, but just enough to blur the view.
Plutonite being that particular manufacturer's name for good old polycarbonate. You can buy 2 square meters of the stuff in sheet form for 30 quid, but mould a tiny amount into sporting shapes and you can charge a bomb for it, apparently. They do make it look nice, though.
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Considered my waterproof options this morning, and decided the only way was the completely unbreathable (but actually waterproof) plasticy gear - good move, as it was tipping it down.
Had to use the hairdryers in the changing rooms to dry out my shoes though !!
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Had to ride in on my mountain bike this morning as someone is buying it off me later.
No mudguards, no rack for my waterproof pannier bag, bouncy suspension and low gearing made for a miserable journey. I can see why people give up in winter if they haven't got the right gear.
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"I can see why people give up in winter if they haven't got the right gear"
Yes, though plenty of people don't cycle when it rains throughout the year.
Some people seem to get the idea that 'it's too cold to cycle' - but will still stand around at bus stops!
Gloves, hat and layers even before considering anything 'special' - though plenty of people already have 'outdoor gear'.
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The heavy rain resulted in me using full waterproofs this morning - overshoes, overtrousers, jacket, gloves (but not the waterproof cap). It was pretty steamy though, especially when the rain intensity dropped for a time.
I also came in the direct way via Gilmerton. The traffic was mad - a continuous queue more-or-less from just outside my house in Eskbank to by Cameron Toll (where I head off). So much for the train taking traffic off the road. If a few more drivers would get on the bus or train, walk, cycle or car-share, they'd all have a better journey in (and so would I).
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Having the colleagues who sit either side of me off on holiday at the moment, I am using their desks & chairs as additional drying space for my wet rainjacket, gloves and socks.
Longs, base-layer and softshell drying in their usual spot at the end of my row of desks, hanging from clothes-hangers and unused monitor risers.
Braw!
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(I did intend to pack spare gloves and socks this morning so I'd have dry ones for the ride home, but I forgot)
Posted 9 years ago # -
@chdot Maybe "How's the weather where you are?" is the BBC's replacement for Met Office forecasts?
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We had tickets for tonight. Having 'experienced' the weather this afternoon I have to admit to being glad that I don't have to go out again.
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pretty nasty out there. around 1.30, as the gusts were picking up, I came across a young woman stopped by the canal. pulled over and asked if she was okay. she said she was, but she was light (implying that she was being blown around). i agreed the wind was gusty (and scary, although I didn't verbalise that). I was turning off at meggetland about 20 m on from where she was (between the 2 meggetland exits). wondered afterwards if I should have done more? chummed her along? asked if she wanted advice on an alternative route?
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I swept up a full brown bin of leaves this afternoon but expect they will be back tomorrow. A Sisyphean task I endure every year. This year the leaves clung on to the trees a bit longer but that is all over now baby blue
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Very wet this afternoon. I was watching it dripping through the kitchen ceiling. :-(
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Rivers of mud running down Arthur's Seat. East European couple on the summit loving it, everyone else indoors.
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Aye. Horrible this afternoon. Proper autumn now...
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Robert Steel, meteorologist at the Met Office in Aberdeen said: “This is average for autumn in Scotland. It has been nothing exceptional, just a deep low to the north of Scotland producing a front crossing the country.”
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We got wellies and waterproofs on and went out about 3pm with the kids on their bikes and went to the local park. We played with a kite and, after she hugged every tree in the vicinity, micropaddy asked me to make a huge pile of leaves so that she could cycle through the middle of them. Both the kids then went on the swings for 20 mins shouting "yippee" at the top of their voices. Then home for showers, hot chocolate and cake. Didn't see many others out there.
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Wind sounds pretty bad. Anyone cycled yet this morning?
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@edintravel: Forth Road Bridge closed to high sided vehicles, cars with trailers, caravans, motorcycles, bicycles and pedestrians. #edintravel
@edintravel: Severe weather alert in place 'til 1pm today for high winds. Please take care and allow some extra travel time this morning. #edintravel
Blearg. Would love to work from home today but power's going to be off thanks to work on our electrics.
This is nice though-
@edintravel: Drivers - please give cyclists plenty of extra room in these windy conditions :)
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I took the bus, but the wind has dropped a lot since I made that decision and the rain has stopped. Lots of cyclists about.
I still need to learn that it usually sounds worse from inside than it is outside.
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It was a bit awkward on the way in but hardly any rain :)
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Cycled in and it wasn't all that bad, although admittedly it was behind me most of the way.
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According to the BBC website:
"Rain will become lighter and patchy during morning with direr, brighter interludes developing."
I assume they meant "drier", but "direr" may be more accurate.
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i was going to walk or bus, but ended up cycling. No probs. far fewer branches down in the Meadows than in recent storms.
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Ran in this morning, put a jacket on for the expected wind and cold then cooked. It looks to have deteriorated now...
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I wouldn't describe it as fun, but I made it.
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It was a bit blowy on the way to the pre-work appointment, but then the third-floor window offered a great view of the blown-sideways rain between it and the city centre. Seeing as there's no nice way of going uphill into the wind I went for Dundas Street. At least I wasn't cooped up in a set of fluoro waterproofs like the bloke who'd emerged from Logie Green Road and was going roughly the same way.
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