Storm Eowyn.

[geocycle]

Interesting drive today from the Dumfries area to Edinburgh. The plan had been to go up the A701 to the A74(M) and ultimately join the M8 to avoid as many roadside trees as possible. That got abandoned due to the yet to be recovered truck still keeping the north bound A74(M) closed after Abington so the A702 it was.

The A701 was littered with chopped up trees along the verges and, more notably, a row of trees that had come down together. They had chopped out a section to keep one lane open and has temporary traffic lights in place.

Joining the motorway I was met with some light snow and it was clear in some spots that lane three, and occasionally, lane two had seen little traffic. That continued to Biggar where, a little further north, snow was still falling. At one point ABS kicked in under only very light braking. The snow continued until around 10 miles outside Edinburgh where it turned to rain.

Aside from the snow the A702 had much less in the way of fallen trees so seems to have faired much better.

The aftermath of the storm is still very evident out there.

Sounds awful. We were due to be in Edinburgh tonight but cancelled as no trains running from northern England. I contemplated driving but after your account I’m glad I didn’t. Hope it clears up soon.

 

[Marchrider]

I hope I didn't imply that his device is inaccurate. If I did, that's not what I meant. I can't think of a very elegant analogy now other than, it doesn't really matter if your tyre pressure gauge or powermeter is accurate or not. As long as it gives a consistent reading, you know whether you've pumped your tyres as hard as you normally like them. Also, as long as you can see that your power has increased, you know your training works. The absolute number is often irrelevant.

I would guess the greatest inaccuracy of this device is its siting, edge of a gable end, sheer drop on one side, then the complex profile of the sloping roof on the other three sides - and then there is trees getting forever higher to the NW

but as you say the readings are comparable with previous readings, apart from the trees - (and I do like things I make myself over bought stuff, even if it is not as good)

One thing of interest when I calibrated it to get it to read as close as possible to the 'proper' anemometer I needed to set the cycle computer to 1187 which corresponds to a wheel dia of 14.9" and yet the dia of the spinning air vent is only 10"
I guess this discrepancy represents the drag the spinning vent experiences from its windward side (does that make any sense?)