Updates on roads please - I need to go to Holyrood this evening, so have to give mr SRD the stud-equipped tandem for the school/nursery run.
Do I take the folder - skinny, pretty slick tyres - or walk?
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Ice?
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Posted 11 years ago #
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Roads fine from Dalkeith this am. Started dry the turn to rain to sleet to wet snow. Forecast I saw had -2 for 6pm today so return may be trickier.
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Horrid cycling in sleet/snow this morning, but not due to road surface - problem was sharp bits of snow being blown into my eyes. Roads seemed fine, but who knows what they'll be like later?
(Disclaimer, I just do a short run along the Gorgie Road.)Posted 11 years ago # -
Rain/sleet/snow now over. Roads fine right now, but clearing will presumably drop temps.
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Come west, folks! Clear skies, mercury hovering around zero, clear roads.
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Nice and bright now. Thin covering on Braids and Pentlands visible from my office.
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I fair battled in through 3 or 4 flakes of sleet this morning, however there a thick bank of dark, low cloud now rolling in from the northeast over Corstorphine Hill. Watch this space.
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Set off hame on the bike lastnight at 20.30 along the A90. Mixed skies clear and cloudy in parts. Slight glint of frost on the counrty roads and definately shushy puddles in Fife.
This morning (15th Jan 2013) Snow in the Face!! ouch!! to the FRB then warming and wetter snow before ~08.30 where it had stopped snowing/raining.
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Dry when I left home. About a mile in sleet, then snow, most unpleasant. Trousers drying over back of chair in the office at the moment.
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Put on my Northwave waterproof boots and thermals in expectation of horribleness on the way to work...but...nothing! Totally overdressed.
(although the poor kids got a face-full of sleet on the wander round to school)Posted 11 years ago # -
Thinning snow outside the window in EH1. Don't know if it'll amount to much in town but a couple of Dalkeithrons are getting concerned.
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Snow settled on roads here at KB
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But apparently not at home (Eskbank)
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light snow (+blue sky) now over george square
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Perhaps it's time I dusted off the MTB and bought some studded tyres. Snowing hard at KB.
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Snowing very lightly here in EH3... though getting heavier just in time for my lunch time stroll.
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Lunch time: Bright spells with no cloud over the north of Edinburgh (my window in St Andrews Sq looks north). No snow all morning.
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The snow must be very localised, as no sign of it here in Abbeyhill. Sunny but cold just now.
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Warm! (In the sun)
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Loving the CCE weather update service. I haven't seen a flake of anything all day in EH8.
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Big snow shower in Balerno at lunchtime. Largely didn't lie but some froze into ice to test my spiked tyre just At my front door
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I was riding around Balerno late this afternoon, the major roads had been gritted and were fine but the minor roads and pavements looked lethal.
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Cycle path was mercifully ice free on my ride from the Russel Road zig zags to st marks park tonight, though that very smooth new bit from 5 ways seemed a bit dicey. Most of it seems to have been well griited.
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EH11 was slippy on the pavements and side roads so I expect the Broomhouse path to be treacherous in the morning.
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Am on the unspiked Brommie tomorrow for various reasons so I hope the main routes are suitably gritted :-/
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King's Haugh a bit slipsy. King's Haugh to Innocent cut-through icy but passable. Innocent patchily-grittedfrom Duddogston RW to Bingham but crackly in places. Duddingston Row all sparkly and untreated.
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EH12 is black ice on the residential roads and shared use paths. I came off my bike 50 metres from home on a patch 'o the black stuff, and have a broken finger to show for it. Typing this is pretty painful. I think I'll take the car tomorrow.
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Yes bad black ice at sides of the road, shared path, frost and ice on back roads. Peterred out beyond the path at Hutchison.
I was really glad of my spikes tonight, took off-the-main-road route to keep away from the amount of drivers barrelling along oblivious to the ice danger. I will NOT be surprised to see a car wrapped around a roundabout or lamp post tomorrow morning.
Was almost thrown from the bike when I hit one of the Broomhouse path wheel-gutter strips at an angle about 1 degree off of optimum, first time I've experience how horrid these things are with spiky tyres. I'll be giving two fingers to the separation line tomorrow and using the "wrong" side instead.
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I could swear I'd mentioned their extra badness on studlies. Listen to your Uncle Uce, young'un...
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It was 0.5ºC at KB when I finished my last meeting at work today, then -1.5ºC once I'd finished writing e-mails. At that point I frowned loudly to myself on account of riding my usual bike, shod with its usual slick tyres.
The main roads were largely fine, and I had the slight advantage of it being post-rush hour, so there weren't too many insane motorists around, but it was all a bit hairy for my liking.
KB says -2.8ºC now, so I have transferred my headlights to the now be-mudguarded spiky tyred extra-monstrous bike for tomorrow.
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