The today's weather where you are thread

[Andy in Germany]

Snow?

Not much: it was severe but fast.

 

[gbb]

I haven't looked at what the wind and gust speeds are around Alconbury Cambs are today,, its fairly open countryside, but as I made my way to our building, the wind shoved me somewhat sideways and I struggled to make my way to the reception door. Tbf, the wind would have been 45 degrees to the front of the building so it was being funneled along.
14 miles away, the corrugated polycarbonate or similar roof sheeting on my canopy finally gave way after 10 years and one sheet wnded up in next doors garden.
Not badly damaged, managed to refit with some repair washers...probably redo the whole roof this spring/summer.

 

[Brandane]

I find this one useful too, not least because of the graphics showing wind direction.

It says there will be some serious hooleys being blown locally in the next 24h...

I was supposed to be rolling off the ferry in St. Malo this morning - on a bike tour! Glad I saw sense and cancelled it (and that was BEFORE the chest infection). Weather looked grim; 50mph winds and rain. The rest of the week not looking too good in northern France. For once I made the right decision . It was a touch optimistic expecting anything decent in mid March, I suppose.

 

[fritz katzenjammer]

Needless to say, the bikes didn’t see outside today...

 

[sevenfourate]

Needless to say, the bikes didn’t see outside today...

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Went swimming instead i take it......

 

[SpokeyDokey]

S E Lakes - lightly snowing at the moment.

 

[Brandane]

S E Lakes - lightly snowing at the moment.

A London blizzard?

 

[fritz katzenjammer]

Went swimming instead i take it......

Nope... I’m Canadian but not that nutty. Perhaps if I had been born a Scot...

I used to know a fellow who lived in a log cabin he built in the woods out in the back of his parents property. He had a large propane tank outside to provide fuel for heat and cooking and used oil lamps for light. Plumbing consisted of water carted in from his parents place periodically in a drum and a surplus bus shack purchased from the city and fitted with curtains and proper seating served for an outhouse. This leaves bathing...

Down the hill behind said cabin was a pond. He dug a bathtub size hole near the pond which filled with water as it was below the water table and used this. He had to kick a hole in the ice in the morning during the colder months, he said his baths during the winter were very quick.

It sounds like a crazy way to live in this modern world but I stayed up there for a week once and we had a wonderful time. When not keeping up his very clean home time was spent hiking, mountain biking and eating really well.

Sometimes I think he had it right and we’re all nuts.

 

[ColinJ]

I can't keep up... It was raining, then snowing, now it is drying up and the sun is shining. I was thinking of nipping out for a quick ride round town and to the shops but... hail is forecast!

I might walk instead.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

A smattering of snow, between 20:00 & 20:30

 

[Slick]

S E Lakes - lightly snowing at the moment.

I came down the M6 tonight and it was chaos around that area. It cleared eventually to rain, but I should have stayed at home.

 

[dan_bo]

NE Manchester this afternoon

 

[Jameshow]

Cold and a sprinkling of snow!

 

[Accy cyclist]

Heck, that wind was powerful yesterday! I couldn't open my car door to climb out on quite a few occasions, such was its strength! 🌬️

 

[cyberknight]

Heck, that wind was powerful yesterday! I couldn't open my car door to climb out on quite a few occasions, such was its strength! 🌬️

last 3 nights i had to ride home against it too , and of course it has to rain all every time just to make it bracing