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Community => Muppets Threads! (And Anything Else) => Topic started by: jags on December 01, 2016, 04:04:37 pm
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What's the weather like in your part of the world lads.
here in Ireland well at least my town it's baltic freezing fog thick as soup and lots more to come :'(
seriously don't like winter miserable feckin weather .
anto.
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Nothing but snow-freezing rain-rain-fog here for the past ten days, and only in the last 12 hrs has it started to dry out a bit. Only city riding for groceries & such as a result, plus giving my Rohloff its annual oil change & catching up on the cycling forums. Forecast for the next few days is sunny-ish and then colder, down to -8 at night as per usual at this time of year. So there won't be much cycling either in the days just ahead, as there's a "black ice" warning. Of course there's no such thing as black ice -- the saying refers to a very fine and very dangerous layer of ice on tarmac in the early morning, which sends cars & trucks into ditches and each other (or worse, pedestrians), 'cos motorists still don't know (or seem to care) about what goes on between their tires & the road.
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i care John that bloody black ice caused me to crash and ended up flat on my back with broken collorbone :'( :'(
these days i go walking when there's a chance of black ice or heavy frost.
anto.
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It has been a rather mild day here in sunny Edinburgh. Plus it never, ever rains here
Alfie 8)
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yeah right ::)
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Mild and windless here in Aberdeenshire on the east coast of Scotland.
We spent 18 years on the West coast and is was considerably wetter.
Nearer the Highlands as well.
😉
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stay put so Matt. ;)
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Here in Melbourne Australia we are officially in Summer as of 1 December.
After the coldest, wettest Spring that I can remember(every ones roses were magnificent this year) it is finally starting to warm up it has been 20C every day this week.
We did have a day of 32C about two weeks ago then back to 15C.
It has not rained for about two weeks now.
Cheers
Mike
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I'm avoiding the UK winter this year. I'm spending time in Darwin, Australia. With daytime temps of 32c and humidity currently at 79% its a bit testing. My friends have a 140 acre property with a wet season lagoon on. I can just about ride around the perimeter but it'll soon be impassable owing to the rain filling the lagoon up. The Mozzies have a taste for mutton so I currently resemble a dartboard!
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i feel for you mike must be terrible having to endure that sun :'(
anto .
jealous who me ???
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It has been relatively mild here s far in Oregon's Southern Willamette Valley, but that will change when the predicted snow falls on us Monday. There's already snow in the mountains and the ski resorts are opening left and right. Merely cool and overcaet at present with some sogginess from periods of rain today.
This topic seems as good a place as any to post one of my favorite online weather links, originally recommended by a friend from Aachen, Germany:
www.lightningmaps.org/realtime?lang=de
Also available in English, it tracks lightning strikes worldwide and is a fantastic tool to use when touring pretty much wherever you might be. I used it extensively for my 2014 European double-crossing and it is both accurate and detailed enough to allow one to alter paths in real time to avoid nearby lightning strikes. I'd had two very close calls before finding this app. Once in Bulgaria, lightning struck just across the road from me and split a tree. Near Melk in Germany, lightning struck the water alongside my bike path not more than 4-5 meters away and I could feel the heat the entire length of my body on that side. Too close!
This little tool made it possible to steer well clear of other strikes <whew!>. Highly recommended and especially handy for desert touring, where the weather can change quickly and cover is hard to find.
Best,
Dan.
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Thanks for this, Dan--interesting and useful tool, for sure.
I took a quick squiz at southern Africa, which around this time of year has colossal, terrifying and lethal thunderstorms. But I think that the scanning/recording doesn't include that continent -- when I licked on the different parts of the region, I got only a light-green wash, and no records of strikes comparable to those shown for N America. (The legend on the left-hand side says America, Oceania, and Europe.)
Other things equal, if I were touring in southern Africa, it would be in the cold season anyway -- the highveld in thunderstorm season is no place for a cyclist.
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I'm avoiding the UK winter this year. I'm spending time in Darwin, Australia. With daytime temps of 32c and humidity currently at 79% its a bit testing. My friends have a 140 acre property with a wet season lagoon on. I can just about ride around the perimeter but it'll soon be impassable owing to the rain filling the lagoon up. The Mozzies have a taste for mutton so I currently resemble a dartboard!
Watch out for crocodiles in that lagoon!
Mike
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i feel for you mike must be terrible having to endure that sun :'(
anto .
jealous who me ???
Anto mate,
Everyone that I know over 60 is having melanomas cut off them.
I wear long sleeves and long trousers and a hat whenever I go out.
On the bike with the helmet lots of SPF 50
Cheers
Mike
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I took a quick squiz at southern Africa, which around this time of year has colossal, terrifying and lethal thunderstorms. But I think that the scanning/recording doesn't include that continent -- when I licked on the different parts of the region, I got only a light-green wash, and no records of strikes comparable to those shown for N America. (The legend on the left-hand side says America, Oceania, and Europe.)
I've had pretty good luck, John. Every once in awhile, the data links go down and you'll get the odd coloring, but most of the time it seems to work okay for me...(see below). I hope you'll have good luck with it.
All the best,
Dan.
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This topic seems as good a place as any to post one of my favorite online weather links, originally recommended by a friend from Aachen, Germany:
www.lightningmaps.org/realtime?lang=de
The link that Dan provided above will give you the page in German, because of the "lang=de" in the URL. "de" is the standard 2-letter abbreviation for German. If you want English, remove the "lang=de". If you want another language, you can add "lang=XX", where XX is the 2-letter abbreviation for the language (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-1) for a list of the abbreviations). Note that the website may not support all languages, and will probably fallback to English if you ask for an unsupported language.
Here is the plain URL, without a language specified:
www.lightningmaps.org/realtime (http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime)
On that website, you can change the language by clicking on the language icon at the extreme bottom left of the page.
- DaveS
P.S. To answer Anto's original question: the weather here (Vancouver) is rain and +6C. Typical Vancouver winter weather.
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If you want English...
Or,if using a PC/Mac, click on the teeny-tiny little flag in the lower-left corner to directly view in any of 13 languages. ;)
Took me awhile to find it in the beginning because I usually use it on my phone while traveling, and then I forgot to mention it here! Apologies. :-[
Check out the cool options like lightning densities and the related apps. I have no connection to any of this, but have sure found it handy while touring.
All the best,
Dan.
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i feel for you mike must be terrible having to endure that sun :'(
anto .
jealous who me ???
Anto mate,
Everyone that I know over 60 is having melanomas cut off them.
I wear long sleeves and long trousers and a hat whenever I go out.
On the bike with the helmet lots of SPF 50
Cheers
Mike
i guess Mike we all suffer one way or another,when we get a good summer here in Ireland it's moan a minute when it hit's 28 deg and everyone complains it's to hot ;D ;D mind u it seldom goes than high.
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Here in the warmer ??? South of England, we had a whole day of freezing fog yesterday. Trees and hedgerows looked stunning coated in heavy frost. Not so pretty when trying to cycle home from work at 7.30pm though and a slight thaw at 2pm had dampened all surfaces and then frozen again to become sheet ice.
It was a long 2 mile walk home :(
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Jacki better safe than sorry ;)
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I use the BBC app routinely but recently installed
AccuWeather.
The hourly predictions are spookily accurate more often than not.
Matt who, like Harold Wilson, is an optimist who carry's an umbrella.
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We had a nice frosty day out on the forestry tracks above the Ettrick valley yesterday.
Forecast is for it to get milder, wetter, and windier for next few days.
Give me the frost anyday.
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Ohhhh, Mannn, Rual! I always look forward to your outstanding photos, and these are the best yet!
What an wonderful treat.
All the best,
Dan.
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Rual hard as nails .great photos. ;)
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Some more,
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How in gods name did you 2 manage to stay upright.
i fr one won't attempt to cycle in frosty conditions just to dodgy.
jags.
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bike and pilot looking good 8)
why u no helmet?
jags.
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A quick overnight trip to Aviemore, weather -8 . Don't wear a helmet all the time, my choice less likely to take chances.
Bob
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look's like an off road route Bob were u guys camping. :o
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Too cold for camping , spent the night Aviemore youth hostel.
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wise man . ;)
i camped in the mourne mountains on a freezing windy night years ago never again.
warm sunny weather is my ideal camping .
anto.
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The main purpose of the trip was to do a nice cycle and meet to organise our next continental bike trip
Bob
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ok sounds like a plan.where are you off to somewhere sunny i hope.
what way do you go about planning a tour is it a joint efford or does your buddy just goes where you tell him ;)
anto.
btw i onlyever organised one tour it was a total disaster through no fault of my own i might add.
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We both agree on where we want to go, then I do the planning. It has worked well for the last 9 years with no problems.
Don't let one bad experience put you off.
We are going to do the Taurenradweg through Austria and Germany in the beginning of May.
Bob
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To be honest i never heard of it Bob i'm a country boy but it sounds exciting Tail winds buddy.
i hate planning to be honest never seems to work out murphys law :o
still I'm happy enough doing long day trips or the odd overnighter ,finding a guy to tour with it's next to impossible (your lucky) and i'm not into solo touring i like a bit of craic ,sure i would drive meself mental if i was on my own. ;)
anto.'
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No riding for me for the next few days. Not enough tread on Compass tires.
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Forecast is for 15 to 25 cm snow by tomorrow night, followed by an Arctic blast for at least four days with clear skies and temps of -2C daytime and -11C nights. When the warm moist Pacific air returns there will probably be another snowstorm, so it'll be a couple of weeks before I get another ride in.
The odds of a white Christmas are improving from the Vancouver average of 10%.
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looks beautiful Ron but how do you lot manage to get about. :)
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:o Yaaaugghhh! :o It got you, Ron!
Went down as far as Portland and missed me here in Eugene. Grateful for that, but oh! Time to get out the skis in V-town.
Hope it melts soon so you can get out on the bike once again.
Best,
Dan.
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One daughter is coming home for Christmas from Milwaukee WI and wants it to be green. The other daughter is coming from the far South of Japan and wants it to be white.