Probably about as rainy as yesterday this morning but much less windy, so the rain wasn't driven quite so quickly through my clothes. SealSkinz 'All Weather' Gloves still saturated; to be fair they're not called 'All Weather-Proof' and I would be entitled to wear them at any time of year.
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Feet remained suitably dry given a rare outing for the MW80 winter moonboots. Gloves fairly soggy given they're in the advanced stages of falling apart. £7 Decathlon waterproof remarkably effective when over a fairly water resistant fleece jacket. Legs fairly wringing, much too much water for roubaix to handle.
Usual axle-deep puddles in the usual places, a lot of standing water across most of the bus lane between Roseburn and Western Corner. Taxis plowing through it at high speed, thankfully ahead of me and nobody was on the pavement.
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It's been pretty tough going this week, but at least the wind is a bit lower today.
Looks like the rest of the week might be the worst yet :(
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Careful at the junction of Gilmerton Rd into Liberton Rd. The left lane (start of the bus lane) is under water almost the full width. when cycling you may be squeezed between cars in the right lane and the puddle.
Craigmillar Park after the Lady Rd junction also has the bus lane under water, be aware that taxis or illegal drivers behind you don't expect you to slow down (fortunately the taxi driver behind me this morning noticed the issue and gave me space).
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@ wingpig, i have the same gloves over the wee hole in the floor under my desk where the cold air blows. Not quite a drying room. A very wet spanish woman with steamed up specs asked me in bike parking if we had a drying room. She is going to get a petition going as she feels there are so many of us (e.g. 150 racks quite full today cf. yesterday though as ahas been stated just as wet). That is the problem - how big a drying room would you need for 150 sets of wet gloves, galoshes, jackets, trews etc
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Why do you have a wee hole in the floor under your desk with cold air blowing out of it (apart from to dry your gloves)?
A restaurant I worked in years ago had really ineffective ventilation in the kitchen, but if you propped up a couple of the polystyrene ceiling tiles you got lovely wafts of cooling air from somewhere. Presumably it balanced out by wafting the smell of hot pizzas into the toilets or something.
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Too small for an escape hatch. I think it used to have a grill? THere maybe to allow access to cabling or designed as a handy conduit for mice? Anyway the cold air blows up it and I use it to partially dry these really bad sealskinz gloves that EBC recommended and then apparently unrecommended. Sealskinz themselves bringing them down from £40 to £12
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Bbc weather has wind gust speed going from 20ish at 8 to 40ish at 9 this morning...
edit - seemed fine to me, but avoid Gilmore Place unless you're a glutton for punishment. the temporary lights have turned drivers into petty lunatics.
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Amber and Yellow warnings of wind from the Met Office for Edinburgh are in place.
Yellow warning of wind
From:0100 on Fri 29 January
To:1800 on Fri 29 JanuaryAmber warning of wind
From:0300 on Fri 29 January
To:1000 on Fri 29 JanuaryPosted 8 years ago # -
one gust this morning in an unexpected place did shift me. Those going the other way looked to be struggling. Might take train home.
All cars all in wrong lane now at the junction with lothian road where Macdonald Cycles used to be. Caused by a lane closure.
St MAry's St also only one lane at the moment.
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I almost ended up on my side in the middle of the road when a gust caught me as I came out of the shelter of a stationary bus heading south on Nicolson St this AM. Not pleasant!
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What's the view for tomorrow then, best avoiding the bike?
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If you live in the falling masonry zone known as Edinburgh, then you don't want to be outside your front door tomorrow morning, never mind on the bike.
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Still planning to cycle to work in the morning at the moment. Takes a lot to stop me. Some days recently there have only been a couple of other bikes in the shed.
SRD is entirely right about Gilmore Place. If you are venturing that way, be aware that cars will be routinely going in any direction on any side of the road. In particular, East bound towards the St Peter's junction at high speed to get to the Viewforth Terrace junction, either to drop their terribly important children at school, or more often so that they can sit in a different queue.
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To the question earlier about little grilles with cold air coming out...
I'm no HVAC engineer, but I did go on a fascinating tour 'behind the scenes' of my office with our facilities manager. It's a big modern office full of computers. He said...
1) The problem with modern offices is not heating them, but cooling them. Apparently if they turn off the cooling in our office, the temperature would stabilise at 30C...
2) The way they cool our office is with chiller bars in the ceiling. They pump cold water round them. They cool the water by running it through refigerator/heat exchangers outside. In summer they have to refrigerate the water to cool it, but in winter with low air temperatures they get 'free cooling'.
3) The chiller bars actually work using air blown up through holes the floor. The holes in the floor align with curved ceiling panels and the chiller bars so that the air goes up, round and down through the chillers. If you're sitting in the wrong place you get cold air falling on the back of your neck. The air that's blown in isn't cooled, although it is filtered.
4) There are things that look like radiators in trenches by the windows, but these are not for heating: they are for keeping the windows warm and stopping them from steaming up.Since I found out all this, I've started putting my wet kit next to the heating trenches by the windows. Don't know if that dries it faster...
Maybe if you have holes in the floor blowing in cold air you have the same system we have.
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@greenroofer you have just described the floor/window/ceiling layout in my office to the letter.
Obviously, the window de-mistifying trenches are well used by the three cyclists in the room. Much to the disgust of the woman who sits next to the trench.
I am all for opeining the windows nice and wide as the place is boiling in the summer, but others are cold all year round but decline to put a jumper on just so I can feel cool. What are other people like?
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You've got an office where the windows actually open...?? I'm very jealous!
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@chug, don't be jealous, they can open but people, other people I mean, won't let you open them.Or swap seats with you.
Wait though, if you like steam trains be jealous, we get a fantastic view of them on the platform if they are off down to tweedbank or round the fife circle.
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others are cold all year round but decline to put a jumper on just so I can feel cool. What are other people like?
they are pampered domesticated primates
i have yet to turn on any heating at home this winter (other than for bathing water), as it has been so mild
luckily my partner is of a similar persuasion - we are in training for an impoverished retirement, as pensions will be devalued to the point of non-existence
its all fun and games round my way... if yer a grimly calvinist heat miser
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@bax, I could be your lodger if my better half kicks me out for the following observation - despite many positive attributes and skills, she does feel the cold and despite a virtual addiction to buying cardigans, she feels the cold.
To be fair, if you feel the cold, you feel the cold (see the joke about the wee baby polar bear, one of my faves, if you do not know it, might tell it at PY tomorrow)
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Its not a good sign that I'm pleased the forecast has dropped to a 21mph headwind at 5pm for going home.
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I feel the cold, but layer up before heating goes on. However, I'm routinely boiling at work while my roommates complain about the cold. Window-opening negotiations begin around March...
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The stupidity of using chiller units to cool offices in this climate is unbelievable.
No wonder the planet is melting.
All that is needed is a length of tumble-drier hose dangling from the ceiling and connected to the fan output of every PC. The other end of each hose is then connected to a giant pipe across the ceiling with a big fan at the end of it to suck out the heat to the outside world.
Job done (for a fraction of the energy of running a chiller unit).
Or, better still, pipe the waste heat into the neighbouring houses to keep your granny warm.
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there's a shopping mall /office complex in Harare that was designed to naturally heat/cool on the same principles as termite mounds. much written about (including by someone who i think has been on this forum). don't know if its been evaluated after being in use for some decades.
eg http://inhabitat.com/building-modelled-on-termites-eastgate-centre-in-zimbabwe/
http://www.mickpearce.com/works/office-public-buildings/eastgate-development-harare/
https://www.foe.co.uk/news/eastgate_centre_harare_termite_mound_41325
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The visitor centre at Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta is designed something like this - no aircon, passive cooling/ventilation, which is pretty cool (...sorry). And indeed, it was lovely and cool inside on a day in the mid 30s.
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There are currently five weather warnings on BBC weather for early tomorrow morning until the end of Monday. It's the first time that I remember actually having to scroll down to see the maps on a portrait widescreen HD monitor.
I have taken tomorrow off so I can just hide in my flat.
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Earlier, the met office issued an Amber Warning of the potential for west to south westerly winds gusting to over 90 mph today, the strongest gusts affecting Shetland between 7am and 5pm.
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http://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2016/01/28/schools-closed-owing-to-high-winds
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@jdanielp I've also got tomorrow off (due to last day of leave year). Not sure what to do now (ideas gratefully received). I was going to take a trip to Glasgow but...
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Aye, seriously advise folk not to cycle tomorrow: looks dreadful and could be dangerously strong winds.
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