Yet Another Cycling Forum
Off Topic => The Pub => Topic started by: nuttycyclist on 26 April, 2008, 03:16:44 pm
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So, here I am lying on the sofa with all windows open and a breeze blowing over me. Mrs Nutty is in the garden but I had to come in, the summer heatwave is here >:(
Just minor effort leaves me breathless and exhausted. It's only four hours since I had a shower but already I am slimey, stink, and want another one; these clothes need to go in the wash, but I really can't start washing three changes of clothes per day just to stay clean >:(
I'd forgotten how unbearable summer is. Roll on Autumn.
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I am tempted to agree with you. I have been pottering in the garden but found it far too hot so had to come inside, just as well really as a can of guiness fell out of the fridge, the tiny hole that appeared in the side of the can was just enough to cause a mess on the ceiling, walls, cupboards, floor and me. I now smell like a pub.
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I went into town in my duffle coat this morning. It's not hot at all! I did spend several years in Botswana and Australia though, so that might affect what I consider hot and not!
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Pleasantly warm here, if a bit hazy. Certainly not too hot.
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Stop yer bitchin'
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I put my shorts on ;D I am wearing a sun hat and sitting in the shade. 8)
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It's only April. How do you get through July?!
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Hot? This? It's freeeeezing here.
I just came back from Southeast Asia. It is unbearable at the moment. I can do dry heat no problem, but in southern Laos it was 36 degrees at night, and humid. Daytime temps are 40+. Very very unpleasant.
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I've been to a number of places, including Laos, but the most uncomfortable I have ever been was the Moroccan Sahara in July/August. I lay on my bed at midnight watching beads of sweat pop out of the pores on my chest.
Needless to say there was no aircon in that hotel. :'(
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OK. I need my head checking.
I read Nutty's post and got angry. As in, if he'd been there in person I'd have been raging at him angry.
This is, I think, only the second half-way decent weekend day I've had this year. And you're already complaining about how hot it is? FFS ::-)
I desperately need more warm, sunny days so I can get out of the flat and on my bike without the crappy weather making more depressed than I already was.
Unbelievable.
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Lovely and warm here too and a fair breeze to go with it.
An early ride this morning, not too far. Just messing about in the garden and doing a bit over the allotment is all I've been doing today.
Off to Cyprus tomorrow for a weeks holiday - should be good. Only hope the prickly heat/sun allergy (the only thing I have in common with Bradley Wiggins) can be kept at bay, so I'll just have to sit in the shade and drink cold beer. :thumbsup:
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I'm sorry but I don't c. 20 degrees C a heatwave; not in anyone's book. There's even a breeze FFS!
This is a normal late spring day and roll on many more of them.
Personally I'm looking forward to spending time in Alberta this summer with temps in the high 20s to 30s and 30% humidity - bliss.
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Horses for courses I think ... O:-)
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My theory that belongs to me is as follows: Nutty's internal thermostat is still on the winter setting. As soon as it gets twiddled to "summer" today's temperatures will feel like a cool summer day. A hot summer day will feel hot. This adjustment may take some time.
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Maybe he needs to moult?
Lovely here. :thumbsup:
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OK. I need my head checking.
I read Nutty's post and got angry. As in, if he'd been there in person I'd have been raging at him angry.
This is, I think, only the second half-way decent weekend day I've had this year. And you're already complaining about how hot it is? FFS ::-)
I desperately need more warm, sunny days so I can get out of the flat and on my bike without the crappy weather making more depressed than I already was.
Unbelievable.
He he. With that rant, you're starting to sound like Nutty. Next, you'll be making comments about trains & the French. ;)
Seriously though, the weather hasn't been that bad this year. Just your usual average English sort of weather.
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I went out for a ride 47.3 miles and I got a suntan 8)
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It's nice here, but it ain't nowhere near hot enough for me yet. Sod the 20s, roll on the 30s!
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He he. With that rant, you're starting to sound like Nutty. Next, you'll be making comments about trains & the French. ;)
Seriously though, the weather hasn't been that bad this year. Just your usual average English sort of weather.
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Why? Does he like trains and and the French too? ;)
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bloody lovely here. Pint in the pub garden this afternoon :D :D
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We had to wait a long time for it, but today was beautiful. My thermometer recorded a maximum of 22°C, which I suspect is a little too high. I don't reckon it was that warm.
I do think we have had more than our normal ration of horrible cold wet windy days in the past two months and it seems to me that this winter had provided far more frosts than usual, but to describe today as "unbearably hot" is, I think, an attempt to provoke. ;D
Last April was much warmer than this, that I do know. Mrs. Wow and I returned from Scotland a year ago today, suntanned and happy. We cycled the first 600 miles with almost exclusively sunny days (there were just two cloudy mornings I think) and on Sunday 15th April we crossed Bowland and the tar was melting on the road. The day we reached John O'Groats was also beautifully warm and sunny as was the day we cycled north along the Mull of Kintyre. We did have a couple of wet days, but it was never cold.
Edit: looking at Metoffice I think confirms my suspicion that my thermometer is giving an artificially high maximum. Nowhere I looked at in SE England recorded a temperature as high as mine, 20.8°C being the highest I found. Sorry Nutty, if you think a temperature in the high 60s fahrenheit is "Unbearably hot" I suggest you apply for a job monitoring the Antarctic ice shelves for the duration of May, June, July and August. :thumbsup:
Edit 2: I spoke to my Shropshire brother today and he confirmed that March 2008 was the wettest he has recorded, going back over 20 years. He records every day the max, min, rainfall and barometric pressure.
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Nutty, you are a nutter! It is only just about getting fine for bike riding/racing... and to enjoy the outdoor. It is till a bit too windy here for me. ;)
Just not to miss anything, and as a testament to my becoming more and more British, I even BBQ'ed the meat tonight. It was lovely with a salad. :thumbsup:
Baby G and I also went cycling and singing along this afternoon. That was even nicer!
PS Being accustomed to the humid heat of Latin America and the dry heat of Northern Africa where I served, there is absolutely little that can "disturb" me over here. 8)
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The cornelii took the picnic tandem for a picnic by the lake in the sunshine and what could be nicer? There was even enough wind so that we could fly our kite (not from the tandem I hasten to add - Mrs C has strong views on
many things breaches of H&S policy) ::-)
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Edit 2: I spoke to my Shropshire brother today and he confirmed that March 2008 was the wettest he has recorded, going back over 20 years. He records every day the max, min, rainfall and barometric pressure.
I'm truly surprised at that. I think I only wore my waterproofs once in March for my daily commute. Of course that could just mean more rain fell at night time than usual......
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It's far too hot, but that's only becasue I'm stuck inside working on my dissertation and want to out riding my new bike!
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Edit 2: I spoke to my Shropshire brother today and he confirmed that March 2008 was the wettest he has recorded, going back over 20 years. He records every day the max, min, rainfall and barometric pressure.
I'm truly surprised at that. I think I only wore my waterproofs once in March for my daily commute. Of course that could just mean more rain fell at night time than usual......
I should clarify that it was the wettest March, and not the wettest month.
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It's not hot until it's over 35.
That's degrees C ::-) ::-)
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March was indeed exceptionally wet here in the East Anglian desert, and April has been both wet and cold. Yesterday was a real tonic; dry, sunny and tolerably warm. Today, sadly, is pretty much back to normal, bar the temperature.
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it's been dry here for the last month or three; I know this because we had a bit of roof missing for most of February and then were DIYing/gardening like mad afterwards. What rain there has been has tended to be at weekends, though.
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I did 26 miles in shorts and T-shirt. ;D
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I was lounging around in a claimed air temperature of 120oC last week.
Mind you, that was in the sauna. ;D
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Blimey at 20 degrees celcius I would feel cold.
Currently the day temperatures in Bangkok are around 40 degrees which is a little warm and rather humid. Fortunately daily rain has cooled it down a bit :P
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I got very excited a little earlier when it looked like raining as then I wouldn't feel so bad sitting inside. But no. It was just the shadow of a cloud taunting me. B*****d cloud*.
Why can't they make us write dissertations in the darkest depths of winter?
*Sorry, I've not really had human interaction for about two weeks now².
²apart from the delivery/sales/charity person who came to the door a while back. He started his speech, looked at me, realised that I was blankly staring back at him, thought for a second then just turned around and left. No idea what he wanted as we didn't get that far!
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After MTBing in Death Valley in 54oc I have re-evaluated my concept of what is hot, and what is not. Hot is when you ride for 3hours, consume a 5L camelback, and 2 1L bottles and don't pee at all. Then when you get back, you drink another 2L of water and when you finally pee, its pretty much crystaline*.
Anything else is just degrees of warm :P
*EDIT: If you can imagine what it would feel like to pee out a smooth rope, thats what it felt like!
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It's only April. How do you get through July?!
I don't get through July >:( (well, the fact I'm here still proves I have survived July in the past, but only just).
Last year the bike got put away in June time and didn't really come out again until September. I just found it too hot to ride or be outdoors. (This was also one of my major reasons for not entering PBP, I thought the weather would be against me; had I known it was going to be as lovely and wet as it was then I may have had more enthusiasm to enter).
Sunday I only needed four cooling showers and three changes of clothes. It gets really painful when you try to move and the sweat sodden clothing sticks to your greasy legs and pulls all the skin taut.
Fortunately, by Monday, I was back in the lovely air-conditioned office (although I am still uncomfortably warm and moist - I suspect the outside humidity must be quite high).
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"uncomfortably warm and moist"
There's a good strapline for your website. ;)
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I did 26 miles in shorts and T-shirt. ;D
blimey they must have been big shorts.
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Chucking it down this morning....roll on 40+ degree days!
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nutty; look up ice jackets.
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Ta. You're my besht mate you are! (http://www.firebox.com/product/1780)
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Having spent a year in the mid-west US I don't mind the UK weather.
Over 100oF in summer (Heat Index up to 115oF if you included humidity) and way below freezing (0oF = -18oC) in the winter (down to -40oC or F with wind-chill). Spring and fall autumn are nice.
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Ta. You're my besht mate you are! (http://www.firebox.com/product/1780)
Try one of these too;
http://arcticheatusa.com/store/index.php/cPath/1?i4uid=9b08131b4530d55e4c013bae56279914
Combined you'll laugh at the summer heat!
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Saturday was a lovely hot day - it must have been because of our music festival.
Hell, it was so hot that Mr P had more than two pints when he visited it!
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Saturday was a lovely hot day - it must have been because of our music festival.
Hell, it was so hot that Mr P had more than two pints when he visited it!
It's all comparitive, J. I couldn't find anywhere in SE England which recorded a temperature higher than 21°C, apart from my garden, which makes me think my thermometer's wrong, although the garden is a bit of a suntrap. The thermometer is in the shade, though.
I think it was April 8th 2004 that the temperature reached 80°F (26.5°C) which was, as far as I am aware, the hottest April day ever recorded in England.
The day I passed my driving test, 7th May 1976, was the first hot day of that glorious summer, and again the temperature just touched 80°F.
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Well it finally got hot here too, so my 6 month old beard are all most gone.
All there's left are a soul patch and a Pancho Villa moustache.
G