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"Severe weather warning"
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Posted 11 years ago #
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In Dalkeith, snow was evident only on car windscreens. Roads were fine through to Gilmerton and into Edinburgh.
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My word, the Express decided to talk to forecasters other than just Mr Powell. It must be bad.
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Gosh, if Uberuce was struggling it must have been bad! I feel less of a wuss now...
Going out later on the Brompton was a doddle, in comparison. Admittedly the route I had to take was a lot more sheltered. If I'd had to go back up to Balerno or something I might not have bothered...
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Conditions were fine on the canal towpath this morning, but a bit of effort was required cycling into the wind.
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Was a bit blowey coming over the bridge this morning.
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Breezy this morning, but it wasn't too gusty, just a bit of a slog.
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Yeah, the bridge was interesting when i crossed around 6.30am
You can see the big gust spike on the FETA wind graph
Should be a pleasant and quick return crossing, though
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I decided to stay on the bus again today. Only one day this week for me, on the bike! Gosh I'm slacking!
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If you go in a south west type direction tomorrow evening, best of luck. 25mph winds, 45mph gusts, lashing with rain. Not as bad as a couple of weeks ago, but still looks fairly unpleasant for what could be the last commute of the year for many.
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The Met Office has issued a yellow warning for rain, with strong to gale force winds forecast from 3pm through into tomorrow."
http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinburgh-weather-warning-over-rain-and-gusts-1-3240537
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Be careful out there - it's pretty nasty. I had a tricky ride home especially south of Gilmerton.
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http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/orthographic=1.66,50.38,435
live global wind currents
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28mph winds, 63mph gusts. That was not a pleasant 7 miles cycling home. Credit to all the cars that overtook me; they all gave me a wide berth, most likely because I was wobbling all over the shop.
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Yes not so good, also with six bottles of wine for ballast, nearly bailed at woods deli and phoned for assistance but in the end I just pushed on despite my pleurisy
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Christmas Eve, 3pm is looking brutal again according to the Met Office. However, Boxing Day is looking good for getting out for a spin.
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About to head out on my last commute of the year (horray !), hoping that the storms will hold off for today.
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Christmas Eve, 3pm is looking brutal again
same as it ever was
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Took the main roads today in ignorance of whether the Innocent would have been gritted or not.
Tomorrow looking interesting, though I'm keeping in mind that for whatever reason every single bit of the media seems to want to hype up possible severe weather which, while bad recently, has never been as bad as predicted.
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Saw Shuggiet briefly this morning, who reported some icy side streets in our neck of the woods. Take care everyone.
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Aye, a little icy on the paths and quiet streets from Fife. Nice run though. Very quiet. Passed and was passed by not a single cyclist until the NEPN and only a few on the path.
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Yep, icy in places this morning. One of those places being directly in front of my house. Went out not expecting it, walked straight onto an icy patch and went down in a comedy pratfall. Slightly bruised thumb to show for it, could have been worse.
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every single bit of the media seems to want to hype up possible severe weather which, while bad recently, has never been as bad as predicted
The storm on 5th December, surely...?
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Some of the wee puddles at the roadside by the upper Pollock roundabout had crackly ice in them this morning. The park rangers' Land Rover was lurking further up the road from the still-closed gate.
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It was skitey at my work despite it looking as if it had been gritted. Apparently you need to walk along the gritty bit..
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"The storm on 5th December, surely...?"
Was covered as if Armageddon was about to happen. Caused nowhere near as much damage and disruption as had been prophesied. Hell, the afternoon in Edinburgh was beautiful, with just a few big gusts (I was off work and walking round our local park - two trees down, nothing at all compared to Hurricane Bawbag).
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p.s. I'm not saying the damage caused wasn't substantial in places, but rather that the media coverage beforehand was End-of-Days-esque. Disproportionate in general, bringing to mind the devestation caused by tropical Typhoons or American hurricanes.
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Perhaps because Hurricane Bawbag had already brought down the weak trees. I mean, no apple trees blew over in my garden this time because, err, the apple tree had already been blown over. More generally, having seen a proper storm, perhaps people are just a little more wary than they were before Hurricane Bawbag
I suspect the media's job on these occasions is partly to hype up a potential story (like they hype up everything because "it's going to be a wee bit more blowy than usual" isn't much of a headline) but partly the media is delivering state-sponsored civil defence type warnings to encourage people to pay attention when they're told to travel only if they need to. Because people have a habit of ignoring those warnings and thinking that their journey is essential and, och, it'll be fine and they carry on as though they are immune. And these people don't just risk themselves. If they get stuck someone has to risk their life to save them or to get their stupid van off the bridge before it gets blown over and kills someone. So I guess there's a real interest in getting people to take the weather seriously.
Maybe it wasn't so bad because this time more people paid attention. Maybe the hype worked. Personally, I need little encouragement to work from home and when someone tells me that there's a strong chance of the FRB and the rail network being closed, I'm strongly minded to seize the opportunity.
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"So I guess there's a real interest in getting people to take the weather seriously."
Though presumably after a while there is a cynicism sets in (as it has with me) that we get warned that the world is about to end and then nothing of the sort happens, and so the opposite happens in that people start ignoring the warnings because they're very Boy-Who-Cried-Wolf?
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get warned that the world is about to end
It did for some people during the last few storms, one in Scotland during the last storm and five UK wide the storm before that.
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