It is actually sunny in Livingston just now.
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"Severe weather warning"
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Posted 6 years ago #
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looks not bad, I was windering about train but at home time if nstill not too blowy wull eat apple and then go for it
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It was a storm in a tea cup, I expected it to be more windy this morning after checking weather report think i must have been in the calm section as sounded windy last night. When cycled home last night at 9pm was more windy
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Yes, I walked in and it was fine. Oh well!
@gembo "when gembo eats an apple, he becomes..."?
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St Mary's in Orkney today. I've swum off that pier. It was a bit calmer though.
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@unhurt looks like you could swim on that pier today. Yikes.
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Lots of flooding photos online now, Orkney getting a bit of a battering. The Hamnavoe (the short sea crossing Scrabster-Stromness) was supposed to get in at noon today. The crossing is usually an hour and a half long but they couldn't berth, collided with another vessel, and have been sitting off in Scapa Flow all afternoon. Now they're staying put till the morning to see if conditions are better then. NO fun! Very glad I'm not on that boat.
Hmm, and a couple of Stagecoach buses have lost their windscreens. Eek.
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Quite chilly today (and for next week it seems). Not very icy on roads around Eskbank but I've taken the bus in. Partly due to not being back in the swing of things after hols, part because ice bike needs maintenance and part because of asthma fears (need to check drugs effective). But the levels of traffic seem lower than usual
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Ice in Gilmerton.
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Lovely morning. Patchs of easily avoidable ice on the towpath with a bit of frost on the north/south section between the Wester Hailes 'S' bend and the Calder Road Bridge, but other than that conditions were very good.
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Plenty icy patches heading to FRB and onward in Fife this morning. I was glad I took the time to install studs last night.
There's large amounts of ice at the top of the A90 cycle path by the main entrance to Dalmeny Estate. It looks like a pipe may be leaking so watch out if you're passing that way.
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I've been away but will be heading along MMW/NMW shortly. I presume they're not too treacherous? I do have Marathon Winter on, so have been assuming I'll be okay if I take it easy?
(hull city centre would be quite nice, if it weren't for the massive dual carriageways everywhere.)
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@SRD it was fine this morning, but I took as wide a berth around the mulch towards the west of NMW as I could get away with.
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I am just home and my area was ok apart from the odd bit of ice near the edge of the road have winter tyres on. Think it was worse this morning on my road.
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The mulch at the western end of NMW was being removed by some workies when I passed this morning. About time too, it was getting quite dangerous.
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Scotland faces a freezing weekend, with more snow in the north and temperatures staying below zero in places.
However, the worst weather is expected in England on Sunday, which could cause significant disruption.
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Interesting Twitter thread in the best way to clear cycle paths of snow. Sweeping and brine apparently
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Met Office app claims it's -5° and feels like -9° in my little frost pocket. Brrr!
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Little wind out there today but the wind that was blowing was fecking freezing
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Met Office app claims it's -5° and feels like -9° in my little frost pocket. Brrr!
@ Unhurt - I saw a man in shorts at the market an hour ago.
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I had two pairs of gloves on yesterday and my hands were still cold. Yet I saw people cycling around with no gloves on.
How do these people survive? What secret am I missing out on?
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Dcathln selling little heat pads for hands and feet frenchy? Or theory of warm core. But I think that theory is pants.
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This morning’s chill left me well and truly brain frozen
My hat was shown up to be a mere fashion statement and not functional winterware
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@Iain McR I hope you gave him a really nasty look. There's no call for that!
@Frenchy I have this issue but with toes. Warm socks, mountain bike shoes, winter overshoes, and my feet are STILL fruz. The cold comes up through the cleats I think?
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The cold comes up through the cleats I think?
One Hogmanay a while ago I lined my clumpy bike shoes with tin foil under the insoles, in the hope that it would reflect my body heat. After an hour of standing around in Inverleith Park, and despite about four cups of tea made on my stove, I was absolutely freezing. The tin foil made no difference at all, and ended up beaten to a micron-thick layer that took weeks to remove from my shoes.
Yesterday I did about 14 miles on Matilda the Elephant Bike and despite the exertion my hands and feet got very cold. This wearing Endura Deluge gloves that, over two winters' testing, have proven to be not very warm. It took me about three hours to warm up once I got home.
It's still not really that cold, though. In the winter of 2010, I arrived at work one day, by bike as usual, and my water bottle had frozen.
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Top tip: Decathlon sell a skiing base layer for not much money (about £10 I think) It is brushed cotton on the inside and is unbelievably warm. I leave it for really cold temperatures: I wore it when it was about 4 degrees and got to work soaked in sweat.
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Arellcat The tin foil made no difference at all, and ended up beaten to a micron-thick layer that took weeks to remove from my shoes.
Lol. Though I bet for that hour, it prevented THEM from controlling your thoughts via your feet.. ;-)
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On the BBC it says it's minus 3 in kirknewton on accu weather it says it's minus 6. If the train was running I would opt for the train tonight. Can bus replacement take bike
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I've been using Endura neoprene overshoes this year (Fri and Sat) with Aldi or similar merino wool socks. Feet are toasty, even after Friday's 6 hour marathon.
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