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Ever?! It doesn't bloody feel like it! I'm getting really really ****ing bored with this now!
April showers? Pah! Since when did showers last a solid 24 hours! Every bloody day! Not happy! 😥
Climate change and all that, we had summer in March!
Yeah, don't worry. Probably in November when it'll turn to sleety snow for a bit.
Never mind, it could be worse: I have a holiday booked in North Wales next week. I almost wish I did canoeing instead of mountain-biking. 🙁
Leave the northwest, HTH 😎
Cut the grass nd did some gardening this evening. Didn't come in until 2100 😳
But we do have a hose pipe ban in the EOE 😆
It's bordering upon being biblical rain nr Wigan now. 😕
Don't worry young banners, another few weeks and we will be basking in sun for the rest of the Summer, keep the faith 8)
Yes it will, but probably not in time for the weekend from what I've heard.
Hope I can find a cab home from the station tomorrow night, don't fancy walking 7 miles home in today's type of weather...
The bus stop pole outside our house has no cap on it. It's about 2.5 metres tall, 10cm in diameter, and as of today it is completely full to the top with rainwater. 😯
(I'm not really sure how it's happened as although it's wet, obviously we've not had 2.5m of rain in the past few days. Odd.)
The bus stop pole outside our house has no cap on it. It's about 2.5 metres tall, 10cm in diameter, and as of today it is completely full to the top with rainwater.
Most of it is full of concrete / crap / stuff?
The rain doesn't bother me. The wobbly paving slaps from Piccadilly station to Piccadilly gardens (Manchester) that squirt water up my trouser legs when I stand on one do bother me though. Never a good way to start the day 🙁
Rain? Sorry, hardly seen any here for a few weeks. Nice dry trails in the west of Scotland 🙂
Doesn't happen often, so we have to be smug when we get the chance!!
It is getting pretty tiresome now and I live in Manchester so you'd think I'd be used to it.
Don't think it's going to be much better over the weekend 🙁
Just bought a gore fusion as jacket for winter half price I'm loving the rain all you mancs should be used to it 8)
Getting really boring now. The novelty has worn off.
The missus is sick of all the mud I'm dragging into the house and bed.
A bit dry in the Lakes at the moment. I'd a couple of hours rain in Skye last week - trapped me in the pub one evening - grim.
Maybe have a wash before you get into bed...ya dirty bastard!hugor - Member
The missus is sick of all the mud I'm dragging into the house and bed
If it's any consolation it's a worldwide thing, it's pissing down in Madrid and forecast to keep doing so all weekend, too.
Nice sunny morning in Edinburgh although we have had a bit of rain. its what you get for living in Manchester (area) the rainiest part of the Uk - other areas have more rain but that bit has the most rainy days.
Is it ever going to stop raining?
No. We're all doomed. DOOMED!
HTH
Blue skies here.
It’s depressing, is what it is, though I’m off the bike due to a bad knee at the minute so don’t mind to much.
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Is that your weather report ?.
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Ooo, oooo. Do we get to guess where ?.
I seem to remember it chucked it down this time last year, then May/June were amazing.
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The Manchester version 🙁
The weather in the NW the last few weeks is really getting on my tits now. Proper depressing.
My hollowtech Bottom Bracket was MADE for conditions like this!
oh wait, no it wasn't.
There's more on the way for the weekend, and into next week.
It was calling a drought summit, the modern raindance, that did it.
Sunshine here in the Democratic Peoples Republic of North Yorkshire.
I'd like to say a big thankyou to all you lancashire people for taking all the rain for us over the pennines, we're very greatfull 😛
Don't worry young banners, another few weeks and we will be basking in sun for the rest of the Summer, keep the faith
Christ I hope so!
I've got a week long sailing event in Wales in 4 weeks time and I need it to be fairly light winds so I'm hoping all this shit will have blown over by then.
I've also bought some new [warm] sailing gear as I got chilly training a couple of weeks ago - my theory is that if I buy lots of warm gear it's going to be baking hot!
Blues skies and sunshine near perth, lovely cycle in to work, skylarks singing away.
Nice and sunny here in sconny botland.
Strangely I don't see it as a problem as it isn't particularly cold.
Go out, ride, get wet, job's a good 'un.
according to yr.com we're due to have an inch of rain on Sunday 😯
Get trench crotch...
I've just got an email from Wiggle titled
beat the rain! GREAT SAVINGS on wet weather essentials!
Not daft are they? And obviously not expecting it to stop any time soon 😥
I'm not saying it's raining a lot, but the guy down the road from me is building an ark.
He's made it several levels tall and now he seems to be filling it full of freshwater fish...!
I think it might be a multi-storey carp ark.
My dogs are trying to do their bit by soaking up muck and the filth from the woods and depositing it on my kitchen floor...
Not daft are they? And obviously not expecting it to stop any time soon
I don't think they'll care whether or not it stops soon, so long as you've bought your wet weather essentials by then.
Ooo, oooo. Do we get to guess where ?.
Well you could do that or you can check my profile.
Half of the pumps designed to pump the water from the River Foss into the River Ouse here failed overnight and the traffic in York is practically at a standstill from the outer ringroad through the centre.
Why did they fail? Were they not serviced correctly ahead of this weather?
Why did they fail? Were they not serviced correctly ahead of this weather?
I think this might actually be the first time that York has experienced any type of flooding. A bit of a shock for everyone involved I imagine. 😛
This isn't the River Ouse though. This is the Foss, so it's flooded other areas. If they hadn't managed to fix the pumps today, there'd be a lot more than 9" of water in those areas, and the phone calls warning people to drag their gear upstairs is interesting.
Walking out of town this morning I noticed the traffic is solid all the way through the centre and reportedly out to Poppleton, outside the outer ring road. Never seen it so bad.
The Ouse has breached its banks, but it's not so bad the flood barriers are locked yet. When it gets really bad it enters the rear of the PO sorting office and then our mail gets disrupted as it shifts to Leeds. Coincidentally, the reason our sorting office is likely to shut down is based on the results of using Leeds in the past during another bad flood period.
Living in the mankychester area and complaining about rain is like living in the artic and moaning about the ice
Ordered a new waterproof on Thursday of t'internet in the knowledge it would trigger an extended dry spell. Keeping the Mud-X's on just in case tho'.
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How verrr, verrr, dare you. I'll have you know young man that South Manchester is awfully posh 😉Living in the mankychester area
Just seen the weather forecast for May. Beam me up, Scotty... 😥
SUNNY IN GALLOWAY
Try the Norfolk/Midland in Marple on a friday night, worst kind of posh.
Anyway very sunny, dry but windy hayfield/edale ride today 😀
Ha ha banks, so true. We've braved the Midland a few times, however we prefer 'The Fox' Brook bottom, or our local the 'Ring o'Bells, real pubs.
Around 15mm of rain here in N.Wilts tomorrow, with 44mph winds. Maybe I should go and dig out my 6' Flexifoil...
Beautiful but cold here in NI
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It was horrendous on the Isle of Wight today.
The enduro I'd booked the day off work for had been cancelled due to ongoing bad weather, but I went out for a ride anyway.
When I got home and stepped off the bike I looked like the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Even more than usual.
The island - which was bone dry three weeks ago - is a quagmire.
All in all, reminded me why I moved here from Glasgow - to escape precisely this sort of weather and riding conditions.
Fine sunny day in Edinburgh today the only pic I have. Its nice to live in one of the driest dn sunniest parts of the UK. We won't mention the baltic wind from siberia
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Here in Oxford the canals are flowing as fast as the bloody river lol....
Hottest April day on record here in northern Switzerland. 31degC! Blue sky from horizon to horizon. Just need a few more like that to melt some snow and then the fun can really start!
Midland is handy bcos It's downhill whereas the ringers is uphill - good pub quiz! Me parents are looking at buying the house at the bottom of the Fox 😀
North-West=****ing cold, windy and wet.
Officially pissed off now. Would like some dusty trails please.
Not sure complaining about the rain fully appreciates what hit Inverness last night.
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