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hellymedic

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Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #2650 on: 07 January, 2011, 11:01:32 pm »
Wet as a wet Welsh weekend here. Very mild - 9°C.
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Deano

Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #2651 on: 07 January, 2011, 11:28:09 pm »
There was a gentle layer of snow in Darlo which laid from about 10 am to 2 pm.  The roads remained clear, but pavements not so much.
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Jakob

Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #2652 on: 08 January, 2011, 01:42:29 pm »
Well, I'm off to Whistler where there's been 1 meter + of fresh snow over the last week. Should be good!
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Cudzoziemiec

  • Ride adventurously and stop for a brew.
Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #2653 on: 08 January, 2011, 08:06:10 pm »
Wet here too. Rain today and temperature "7 degrees of warmth" as FiL put it. Terribly slippery roads immediately round us - water on ice over the entire width - but the tarmacced roads are now all clear. Dirty puddles in town. Everyone coughing. Yeah, thaw flu is here.  :(
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LindaG

Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #2654 on: 08 January, 2011, 10:58:44 pm »
It certainly is.  Except it's horizontal snow combined with a gale force wind.

It's because we planned our 100k for tomorrow.
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LindaG

Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #2655 on: 09 January, 2011, 11:37:41 am »
And the slush has now frozen to a rock hard layer an inch thick.
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border-rider

Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #2656 on: 09 January, 2011, 11:39:57 am »
Damn cold & icy last night (I was wheelspinning on the way home on 37 mm tyres after dark) but it's a fabulous day today.  Cloudless blue skies & warmi(ish) sunshine :)
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Dibdib

  • Fat'n'slow
Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #2657 on: 09 January, 2011, 12:31:10 pm »
Just back from a very short pootle to the shop to buy some electricity (about 1.5 miles each way, West Swindon) with largely the same experience as interzen. Bright, sunny and quite pleasant, but very chilly and a bit of frost on the cycle paths in places.

Have also heard on the Facebook grapevine that at least one local biker acquaintance has dropped his motorbike somewhere near Trowbridge.
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hellymedic

  • Just do it!
Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #2658 on: 09 January, 2011, 03:40:39 pm »
David set out early to lead a Brent Cyclists ride to Windsor.
Fell off on ice less than a mile from home, bruising his shoulder and had one pannier fall off.
Continued to meet riders at Kingsbury Station (0), Kenton Station (0) and North Harrow (1).
Decided to retreat home after he skidded again.
Ortlieb pannier has broken clip. Replacement ordered.

He's now off on the buses to Ruislip Lido, where he'll freeze his nuts off entetaining punters at the Stargazing LIVE event. There were 250 punters last night.
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Wendy

Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #2659 on: 10 January, 2011, 10:06:13 am »
Ouch!  It seems quite a few of my mates have fallen off yesterday too.  Hope the bruises aren't too bad.
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hellymedic

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Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #2660 on: 10 January, 2011, 09:37:15 pm »
Quote from: Wendy on 10 January, 2011, 10:06:13 am
Ouch!  It seems quite a few of my mates have fallen off yesterday too.  Hope the bruises aren't too bad.

He's not let me look but has reasonable function.
He has audibly complained of pain rather frequently but insisted on cycling to a station three miles away.
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Deano

Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #2661 on: 10 January, 2011, 09:47:51 pm »
It was horribly skiddy yesterday.  It must have been a combination of skill, judgement and extreme luck which saw me through, though I did have one inadvertent moment of horizontality while proceeding very slowly across a sheet of ice.  No lasting harm, as far as I can tell.

The weather forecast was predicting much milder weather towards the end of the week.
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CrinklyLion

  • The one with devious, cake-pushing ways....
Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #2662 on: 10 January, 2011, 11:26:17 pm »
Quote from: Deano on 10 January, 2011, 09:47:51 pm
It must have been a combination of skill, judgement and extreme luck which saw me through

Whereas I relied primarily on blind faith and a sense of fatalism :)  Glad to hear there's no lasting damage!
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Wendy

Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #2663 on: 12 January, 2011, 07:49:59 pm »
I would think that it's probably not going to snow again here in London - I just bought two pairs of yaktrax.  One for us, and one for my bro who broke his hip after falling badly on ice last year.
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Kim

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Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #2664 on: 12 January, 2011, 09:10:16 pm »
It's not over until Clarion gets his tyres, though.
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Wendy

Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #2665 on: 12 January, 2011, 09:19:45 pm »
Last time I bought a sledge, it didn't snow at all for 4 or 5 years, LOL!
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clarion

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Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #2666 on: 12 January, 2011, 09:30:22 pm »
Quote from: Kim on 12 January, 2011, 09:10:16 pm
It's not over until Clarion gets his tyres, though.

Currently scheduled for late January ::-)
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Deano

Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #2667 on: 12 January, 2011, 10:12:53 pm »
Quote from: clarion on 12 January, 2011, 09:30:22 pm
Quote from: Kim on 12 January, 2011, 09:10:16 pm
It's not over until Clarion gets his tyres, though.

Currently scheduled for late January ::-)

So there'll be no snow after that?
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clarion

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Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #2668 on: 12 January, 2011, 10:43:10 pm »
York has an altitude? :o
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Jaded

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Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #2669 on: 12 January, 2011, 11:00:33 pm »
It's the accent.

Oh no, hang on, it is Bristol that adds an 'wl' to 'a's
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Chris S

Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #2670 on: 27 January, 2011, 09:19:30 am »
Winter's returned :(

Moderate flurries in Norfolk this morning, with a dusting on the ground.
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citoyen

  • Occasionally rides a bike
Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #2671 on: 27 January, 2011, 09:47:17 am »
Quote from: clarion on 12 January, 2011, 09:30:22 pm
Quote from: Kim on 12 January, 2011, 09:10:16 pm
It's not over until Clarion gets his tyres, though.

Currently scheduled for late January ::-)

You might get them in time for the next bout of snow. I thought I was imagining it at first but there were definitely a few flakes floating around in the air this morning, brought in by the bitterly cold Siberian wind, no doubt.

Winter is far from over, folks.

d.
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Wowbagger

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    • Stuff mostly about weather
Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #2672 on: 27 January, 2011, 09:51:35 am »
According to some sources, the most vicious blizzard to strike Britain during the twentieth century was on 5th March 1947. Apparently that was also the wettest March for 300 years.

The 1947 winter didn't get going until the last week of January (or so I'm told).
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Psychler

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Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #2673 on: 27 January, 2011, 07:07:34 pm »
Driving home at 2 am last night it was snowing quite heavily for about 1/2 an hour but it didnt settle.
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woollypigs

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Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #2674 on: 27 January, 2011, 07:27:54 pm »
There was snow in NW London today, very very fine but it was snow.
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