[Closed] Holy Crap... The Weather! aka Apocalypse Now!

I was about to say what's the fuss about?

It rained for about 10 minutes this morning, and its slightly breezy but the sun has been out most of the day.

NW by the way 😀

Yeah it is a bit wild! luckily we bikers wear helmets so suffer less from being pelted in the head with hail 😀

I had snow on Friday at Laggan, beautiful warm sunshine on Saturday at Morar and then snow again yesterday on the way home 🙄

Edit: Proof it was sunny...

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I'm in Oxford, this doesn't happen here. Not in the last 30 years anyway.

I've been running around the street like an idiot... like a 5 yr old apparently!

We were hillwalking in Glen Lyon yesterday and had quite a range of weather while on the hill (sunny, cloudy, hail, snow) and most of the rest (heavy rain etc) while driving home.

Hasn't stopped raining all day here in South Wales. The real heavy variety too.
I'm going to ask my employer for a bank holiday in liew of this one being so shit.

Lovely weekend here in yorkshire. Mostly sunny. A few spots of rain earlier today, but not enough to bother getting the washing in.

Hasn't stopped raining all day here in South Wales

south west wales has been dry all day 😀

south west wales has been dry all day

Damn if I knew that I would have driven over for the day! 🙁

Steady rumbling of thunder just passing us near Milton Keynes. It came from direction of Oxford - same storm I suppose. We're on the edge of it so just got rain and noise...

Second the sunshine oop north 8)

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I was just driving round oxford and got caught in it. Loads of drivers not even slowing down despite the Witney bypass turning into a lake in parts.

That's close to me tang... it was brilliant. Still a good covering of hailstones on the ground.

And another for constant rain in South Wales, been sat in the garage all day sorting out spares boxes and generally tinkering...

....stuck now though curry or chinese?

only started raining in swansea about 4ish

Here in the west of south wales it started persistantly p*ssing down about an hour ago. Saves me washing the bike 😀

Nipper99 - Member
only started raining in swansea about 4ish

No way!! Been raining here in the Ogmore Valley all day!!

Bit grey in the Peak,odd spot of rain but mostly dry.

the joys of living in the s.wales valleys!!

Was a beautiful, but chilly, morning on my way to Heathrow at 7am this morning. Now in a hotel in Nairobi and it's 21C outside.

TSY - it made the news by the look of it
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-17986143

Balls - now I'm gutted I couldn't see the Tornado. I've not been so excited as I was yesterday in a long time. Might become a storm chaser.

They called a drought summit, a jubilee, and the olympics. Short of painting on a bullseye there wasn't any more they could do to tempt fate. With Tesco selling brollies and jumpers, and the Met Office now saying that summer will be wetter and cooler than expected, what odds on severe winter flooding?

We went caravanning in Gloucestershire, managed to get the awning down in a very short time window where it wasn't hammering it down, just the odd sprinkle.

Cheeky bugger campsite owner charged us for an extra day though because we were waiting for dry.

Saturday at Morar and then snow again yesterday on the way home

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That track is brilliant, had a bit of a heavy pack so minced some of the more exposed sections.

druidh - where you in group of about 8 bikers? Saw a group riding out of Tarbet around mid day ish

oap - twas indeed us. Great track, though the potential consequences of a slip or fall on some sections did cause some anxiety.
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We passed a few walkers, I take it you were amongst them?

We were walking along the shore west of Tarbet - prob got there about 10mins after you left. Spent the weekend in the Tarbet area, rode in and out.