bl!!dy weather

[cearnshaw]

my ride home last night, 7pm, July 4th. Another balmy summers ride.      



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[2112]

Yep, pretty grim. We've called a MIMP at work (Major Incident Management Plan) due to the forecasted appaling weather and the likely disruption to electricity supplies. Could be a busy weekend...

P.S. I'm supposed to be watching England thrash Australia at Chester-le-Street on Saturday, most unlikely  

[TravellingStrom]

I have ridden for the past two months in the rain, only had two dry weeks in that time and 7 days of sunshine

Australia will thrash the poms

[cearnshaw]

yeah but it's our bloody summer

[Kaboo]

  "......we live in a kingdom of rains, where royalty comes in gangs......Vim under the sink and both bars on"
 

from the very funny film "Withnail and I"

[Ptarmigan]

Our summer's not bad at all  

Hoping ours won't be that bad too......once it gets here

[73bm73]

Our summer's not bad at all  

   
33° -  38° the whole last week...  )

[scottyaustria]

How do you know weather gets better?

The rain gets warmer...

[Gassoon]

Our summer's not bad at all  

   
33° -  38° the whole last week...  )

Yeah, that's the angle the rains been falling on us!

[Abercol]

Yeah, that's the angle the rains been falling on us!

     

[doboy]

well I think we better get used to it ... its all to do with the jet stream ..the weather above the jet stream is always bad & below the jet stream its always good ...well the bad news is the jet stream this year is the lowest its been for years and only the far south of France & the far south of spain [ that are below the jet stream ] are getting good weather ... and my bike jacket has just started to leak in ...bugger ...

[Juvecu]

Yeah, that's the angle the rains been falling on us!

         

[Strombone]

Winter is the new biking season...I hardly ever got wet this winter.

[Glider65]

Yeah, that's the angle the rains been falling on us!

     

Got caught in one of these torrential downpours for 30 min with wifey on the back (first trip on a bike for 14 months)

But she STILL said she LOVED IT  

Winter is the new biking season...I hardly ever got wet this winter.

grrr.  I'm NOT going to be riding Davina this winter.  Salt + DUCATI  

I'll need something (I'm thinking a cage actually)

[cearnshaw]

grrr.  I'm NOT going to be riding Davina this winter.  Salt + DUCATI  

I'll need something (I'm thinking a cage actually)

they usually run out of salt here mid-November

[Gassoon]

well I think we better get used to it ... its all to do with the jet stream ..the weather above the jet stream is always bad & below the jet stream its always good ...well the bad news is the jet stream this year is the lowest its been for years and only the far south of France & the far south of Spain [ that are below the jet stream ] are getting good weather ... and my bike jacket has just started to leak in ...bugger ...

You are right doboy, I've been following the shenanigans of the jetstream for a few years now, especially the part that affects these islands and that land over there, wossit called? oh, europe! Got me right into metereology it did, so that I started talking on about 'Hadley cells' and 'katabatic winds' in the pub and losing friends . I even got a proper electronic weather-station to put on top of the shed, started collecting rainfall, wind-speeds etc to go with my more traditional dried fir-cones and dangling sea-weed prediction indicators.

But the jetstream (only discovered in the 20th c) is a sod this year...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/18748701

[whythedevilnot]

Winter is the new biking season...I hardly ever got wet this winter.

It was a pretty good one wasn't it. Don't know anything about jet streams other than the return flight is a little quicker. Mind you, were some fun winds this winter.

Meanwhile, nothing has time to dry, my helmet absolutely wreaks of damp and the gortex in my 5 year old gloves doesn't even pretend to work any more. Still, better than commuting in a cage.