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Blustery Winter Showers

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  1. Zenfrozt
    Member

    Typical, just as it looks like I might have a reasonably distanced commute once more it threatens this...

    Forecast for the next day or so:

    Headline:
    Rain at first giving way to blustery wintry showers.

    This Evening and Tonight:
    Cloudy with outbreaks of rain at first then becoming drier and clearer. Blustery showers will follow overnight, turning increasingly to sleet and snow. Strengthening westerly winds possibly touch gale force through the M8 corridor. Minimum Temperature 1 °C.

    Monday:
    Bright, bitterly cold and windy with sleet and snow showers. Fewer showers and more sunshine over East Lothian and the eastern Borders. Strong to gale force westerly winds. Maximum Temperature 5 °C.

    Outlook for Tuesday to Thursday:
    Staying cold and windy on Tuesday with further heavy sleet and snow showers. Showers becoming fewer during Wednesday, then drier, brighter and less windy on Thursday but still cold.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  2. chdot
    Admin

    Currently the wind is almost absent.

    No doubt the lull before storm.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  3. amir
    Member

    It was snowing in Gilmerton. New snow also on the Pentlands.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  4. Darkerside
    Member

    It's blowing a hooley over here, so it's probably heading your way. I'm absolutely knackered.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  5. kaputnik
    Moderator

    The wind has definitely picked up again, I'm glad to be sitting this one out.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  6. EddieD
    Member

    I decided that since I was a good boy at the weekend and did runs both days, discretion would be the better part of valour and walked in today.

    The winds sounded hideous overnight

    Posted 11 years ago #

  7. chdot
    Admin

    "Currently the wind is almost absent."

    And again.

    Meanwhile there was a gust strong enough to blow the back stair door open.

    Could be dangerous out there.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  8. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    No idea how I maintained a double figures average speed on the way in this morning, that was a horrific headwind. It better stay in place for me getting home!

    Posted 11 years ago #

  9. Arellcat
    Moderator

    Not one minute of my door this morning and I was being blasted in the face with gale force sleet. Lulled into a false sense of security from yesterday's balmy temperatures I hadn't put my Buff on, and my forehead froze instantly.

    The sleet passed by but the wind is certainly up in the west of Edinburgh. Posted a 13.8mph average to work, which is on the slow side of normal for that route.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  10. wingpig
    Member

    I'd fortunately just turned north when the sleet splattered in. Lots of wheel-grabbing wind about and strange wind-funnelling effects making it appear from odd directions.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  11. Darkerside
    Member

    My average on the way in was down from about 28kph in calm to 15kph. And that on a recumbent, which generally sneaks below the worst of it.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  12. chdot
    Admin

    "which generally sneaks below the worst of it"

    And generally defy the laws of physics.

    Must have been windy!

    Posted 11 years ago #

  13. steveo
    Member

    Another morning where my long lie has saved me from the worst of the weather.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  14. deckard112
    Member

    Must admit every time I think 'is the weather too bad to cycle' I remind myself of the trudge to the bus stop (where I'll get wet and blown about anyway) then sitting in a tin box with 50 other depressed drones and taking twice as long to get to work than usual.

    That usually does the trick and I hop on the bike.

    As a well known explorer once said "There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing"

    Posted 11 years ago #

  15. amir
    Member

    Challenging weather on the way home. Snow is settling in Gilmerton but do the drivers drive safer? No - pretty much the opposite in my experience today. No slowing down, lots of close passes (I was out more than usual to avoid the snow). Also two times arrogant SOABs passed me then immediately turned left (one into a drive). Selfish b****s

    Road conditions improved towards Dalkeith but starting to settle I think.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  16. Charterhall
    Member

    Complete nightmare coming home past Clubbiedean/Torduff tonight, blinding snow, couldn't see a thing - I had to navigate most of it by memory ! But kind of fun too :-)

    Posted 11 years ago #

  17. Smudge
    Member

    Snowing heavily in Falkirk area tonight, and forecast to keep on coming until the morning too :-o

    Posted 11 years ago #

  18. gembo
    Member

    Flash mob blizzard in Balerno and then points east from 6pm, I cycled through a lot of it

    Slush getting slightly former the higher I clinmbed

    Posted 11 years ago #

  19. wee folding bike
    Member

    deckard112,

    Are you sure you mean drones and not Replicants?

    Weather not an issue here. There is weather, it's just not an issue.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  20. gembo
    Member

    Whiteout now

    Posted 11 years ago #

  21. fimm
    Member

    Cycling to Haymarket was fine: very thin covering of snow on pavements/untreated side roads: main roads clear.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  22. amir
    Member

    Dalkeith to KB also fine - some light snow but possible to avoid.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  23. Uberuce
    Member

    Some ice under the snow along Broomhouse path at twiddly little bit before South Gyle Access found and exceeded the limits of the studded tyre.

    I imagine the snow from path up to that point had packed in around the studs so hard they couldn't bite the ice as usual.

    You take that bit at walking pace even on a dry day, so I'm fine, bike is fine.

    Path's untreated, anyway.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  24. EddieD
    Member

    The canal towpath had thin covering - and a nasty cross wind at Harrison Park - I did wonder if I was going to do an impromptu triathlon this morning.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  25. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Spikes 1, winter 0. Slow but constant progress into the wind. Most of the side streets were pretty cold and covered in a fine, slippy powder of snow that hadn't gone to slush but had compressed into a sort of ice.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  26. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    Right. Where's all this snow?

    My street had a very thin covering, the main roads were completely clear however (but the headwind made progress somewhat slow....). I demand lots of snow!

    (on the cross bike again today - hoping that even just one day sees the mountain bike as a necessity).

    Posted 11 years ago #

  27. steveo
    Member

    I had more trouble walking in on the not-thin covering of snow to the main road than I did once I got there.

    The top road is usually gritted for the school but they clearly hadn't got there yet. At one point I went to clip in and the rear wheel just spun round, decided to walk a little further on after that.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  28. wingpig
    Member

    It was sticking to the road outside the house but the main roads were mostly free. Marionville Drive was exhibiting an interesting phenomenon where tiny little snowdrifts had formed and compacted against the windward face of each little rut on the surface, forming a slippery rumbly thing. The Innocent from Bingham was fine apart from the ungritted bit over the bridge just west of Duddingston Road West.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  29. fimm
    Member

    It has been snowing quite briskly here in Livingston so you may have got it in Edinburgh now. However at the moment it seems to be a very thin precipitation of some kind.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  30. DaveC
    Member

    Snow in Sunny Kingdom!! Not much only 10mm perhaps but as it was dry overnight its lying and being compacted on side streets in to Edinburgh. Main roads with busses have been gritted as was the cycle path up to the bridge BUT only as most of the grit had been thrown by large vehicles onto the path!!

    In Edinburgh the A90 and Barnton paths were semi icy (fine with studs) and snow was compacted everythwere on side roads. Funny to see the veh tracks to see which vehicles have driven up streets and done a 3 point turn to drive back down...

    I came in after 8am and didn't get into Edinburgh until nearly 09.35 so I didn't see many vehicles. GOOD!

    Posted 11 years ago #

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