From the sound of it somewhere furry boots are needed to prevent one’s toes from turning blue and falling off.
Edit: if it’s any consolation it's raining in East Londonton too, but fortunately didn’t start until after I'd ridden back from Mr Sainsbury’s House of Toothy Comestibles.
I'll just note that the temperature on the Scottish border as we passed through yesterday at around 10:30 was 4 and one half of your finest Celsius degrees.
Yes, the temperature profile on my 400k ABZ-EDI-ABZ the other day was fairly chilly.
Setting off at 6am, the air temperature was below 7 degrees and there was a bitingly cold wind. It did warm up after about 10am, but as the day grew old, the temperature went into terminal decline, falling steadily through the night. It dropped below 10 degrees before sunset, and fell to 2 degrees overnight.
I was wearing all my kit by this point: Winter-weight longs, merino thermal, two winter-weight tops, and a full waterproof to keep the wind off me.
(I'd planned a drop-bag in Edinburgh and changed into the overnight kit there.)