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Of this rain, wind, cold, rain, cold, wind. Bloody sick of it – I've just come back from a dog walk and I was freezing, despite having my big winter coat on. I then went into the garden to feed the rabbits, the ground is still absolutely sodden and the winter covers for the hutch were blowing all over the place.
Sick of it – when will we ever get any half-decent weather?
It's the last day of this crap. The short and long range forecast after today is very dry for SE Wales at least.
I was literally about to post much the same thing...
I'm generally ok with any sort of weather, plus I'm in Manchester so, while it's not really so bad as people moan about, I am used to drizzle... but aaargh I have seriously had enough of it this year. The weather and constant constant never-ending unceasing continual unending perpetual cold and rain is really badly getting me down. Seems non-stop since about September and I'm about to scream at this point.
It’s the last day of this crap.
I hope so - my girls are doing their DoE Bronze camping practice trip this weekend.
I'm going for a riding weekend to Wales, so don't count your chickens.
Yeah we've had it all today. It's currently sunny but freezing. Gale force winds, sideways icy sleet. It's bloody horrible. It's like December out there.
The wind was pushing me down the street trying to rip my coat off an hour ago.
Hailstone , Rain , Sunshine and wind sof far today – Its Er Changable for sure and im in the sunny south !!
TBF that is pretty normal for this time of year, and usually I find it fun to have blazing sunshine, snow, fog, hail etc all on the same day.
Today it's switching between sunny and overcast drizzle... I ride home for lunch and in that 10 minutes only it chucks it down with freezing slushy hail/rain so I arrive drenched and frozen. It's out to get me I tell you.
Youngest child will be off to Uni in 4 years, finished in 8. I applied for my Irish citizenship a while ago, as soon as that comes through passport will follow. Masterplan is to move to Montecorto in Spain at the earliest opportunity. This weather just confirms our logic.
eh? Raining today (on and off - just gone sunny again!) but yesterday was OK, Fri & Sat were lovely - 20 degrees & sunny all day! I got sunburnt on my Sat ride ☀️😂
I was feeling that way, but 3 days of sunshine and I'm pretty happy. Managed to burn my neck on Saturday's ride!
Things seem to be improving for us down south.
yep I feel the same, today feels like we've gone back to early Feb!
looking ahead, looks possibly like end of April things might settle down for us a bit:
Also sick of the weather!
Yesterday morning it was warm enough to ride in shorts and t shirt. This morning it was snowing😭
Yep, showers today but definitely feels dryer.
Doesn't help though that the KAW facebook group feedback from the weekend is that the bridleway south of Reading is still a mid bath / impassable. Great to know that the worst bit of riding for 200 miles is right past my house and my access to the trails 😂
I think in the last month, we've had 3* 24hr periods where it's not rained. One day at Easter, last Friday and yesterday. Bloody sick of it and the trails are still worse than mid winter in some places!
* I might be wrong but it certainly feels like that!
Sleet this morning, thunder this afternoon, half the trains not running due to a tree on the line, tonight's Cycle for Health ride cancelled and replaced with a "meet at the pub"
Last two hours of my ride yesterday I couldn't feel my hands from the wrist down.
West of Scotland right enough..
the trails are still worse than mid winter in some places!
I think Feb or early March is usually peak slop, but it's stretched out to mid-April this year.
On the upside, I've never felt so confident riding in the mud.
“ the bridleway south of Reading is still a mid bath / impassable. Great to know that the worst bit of riding for 200 miles is right past my house and my access to the trails 😂”
If you head north it’s just starting to dry out. The bridleways that are usually horrible still are obviously. Not been south yet but can imagine it’s horrific.
Plan for the worst and enjoy things more when worst doesn't turn up.
We are off up North in the morning and are packing kit for all seasons,it'll be fine.
#adaptordie 👍 😃
Oh and OP,that'll teach you for having demanding pets 😆 🤣
Just been for a 50k ride in bright warm sunshine, then hail, then sun, then rain but mostly sun. The bluebells are out and smell amazing. Almost like it’s April in the UK
You do gravel riding, yeah?
There's just so much surface water and slop that it's more annoying than MTB in the mud for me at the mo.
Had winter gear on for yesterday's hilly road ride - not warm. I'm off camping on Thursday - gulp.
A lot chillier than the very pleasant Saturday, not to mention blowy and the odd bit of wet stuff falling from the sky today in Hants (another shower due in next 10mins or so).
Part of me thinks just wrap up, take hybrid off turbo and take it out instead of road bike, part of me thinks just do a spin indoors...
If you head north it’s just starting to dry out. The bridleways that are usually horrible still are obviously. Not been south yet but can imagine it’s horrific.
Yea, I've not touched the gravel bike since September, it's just not been worth it. And MTB has been limited to a handful of trail center trips.
It's driven me to finally sorting out the fixie as a proper track bike and heading to Palmer Park to do my accreditation at the velodrome!
quite literally hero dirt at my local hill this weekend. even the 'mega death berm of eternal clay slipperyness' was decent.
the flat parts of friston were (unsurprisingly) pretty muddy still though. but anything with an actual slope was all good.
You do gravel riding, yeah?
There’s just so much surface water and slop that it’s more annoying than MTB in the mud for me at the mo.
It's the same underneath whatever tyres I'm using. I can't go without my riding fix so just get on with it whatever the weather. It was gusting up to 45mph today but its my last chance to ride before work until next week so I couldn't miss it. I'm getting on a bit so there's only so many rides left in these old legs so got to make the most of it while I still can, mud or not.
Yeah, if I'm honest, this weather is killing me slowly. Body and mind just don't work properly when faced with prolonged winter conditions.
Had a lovely ride in the sunny Chilts yesterday, it wasn't totally dry by any means but it was 100% better than what I thought it would be, today - Wind Hail and horizontal rain and 10degs colder.
Really really had enough now.
Same here. Half decent weekend, wind aside, and quite spring like. Back to winter today and just started raining icy rain just as I'm about to head home.
Still refusing to turn the heating back on though...
Temperature wise it's ok, heating pretty much off now, aside from the occasional boost.
It just feels like it hasn't stopped raining on and off for months though, which is my excuse for having done exacly zero gardening so far this year 🙂
Hailstone , Rain , Sunshine and wind sof far today – Its Er Changable for sure and im in the sunny south !!
Same for me, also in the South. Luckily this is first day of 7 the heating has been back on (building works).
well that glimmer of better weather has now disappeared 😞
normal service has resumed 👇
Tee shirt and shorts Saturday, and Friday, yesterday I was out for a walk from Biddestone, and managed to get half way round with my jacket off.
Today I’ve been trying to fabricate a fix for the fence at the bottom of the garden - there’s a two story block of flats the other side, and because the wind is mostly from the SW, it gets funnelled through like a wind tunnel, and because it’s been so wet, the ground is soft and the posts have become loose*. There’s been sun, rain, hail and a lot of wind today, but I’ve managed to get a piece of 2x4 with an angled end screwed to a post, and a steel tent peg at the bottom to stop it moving, there’s a small tree a couple of feet from the other post, so I’m hoping to fix something between the two to hold the post steady.
*The posts are fixed with postcrete, but there’s a limit to how deep a hole you can dig, without a pneumatic drill, because there’s almost solid stone about 2.5 feet down, the mate I helped put the fence up with spent a whole day digging four holes using crowbars to try to break up the stone - sodding hard work, and now these successive gales are loosening the concrete in the holes! Bollocks, basically. 😖
Windchill had the temps down to -1 today just outside Glasgow.
It's pretty much rained constantly here since last June and I'm absolutely scunnered with it
"Maybe the summer will come and the weather will be a good one."
Anything like last year it'll go from pleasant to unbearable in two days, to wet in two weeks, then staying wet for the rest of the year.
Funnily enough, took the dog out at 6pm last night - winter jacket, hood up, hands in pockets etc - bloody freezing. And then getting facebook memories pop up of previous years... lockdown where I was sipping beer in the garden in shorts and t-shirt, 2 years ago in Devon at Easter in shorts and t-shirt etc. WTF is going on (2 week forecast for Yorkshire doesn't show much improvement either - not hitting 15 degrees yet and lots of rain/showers).
Anything like last year it’ll go from pleasant to unbearable in two days, to wet in two weeks, then staying wet for the rest of the year.
I've had conversations with some weirdo's that think we had a great summer last year because we had a couple of hot days. My memory is the same as yours - mostly wet
weather so far this year sort of reminds me of middish 1990s
camping in 1998 for May Day in Yorkshire at Malham, that was freezing awful weather too...
WTF is going on
The Atlantic has warmed up considerably. Climate change and El Nino. This produces energy, this energy spins into saturated low pressure systems that track across the Atlantic one after the other by a southerly locked jet stream. We are directly in the firing line. If it makes you feel better, we share this weather with lots of Northern European countries, The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, have all had equally record breaking wet weather for the last 18 months.
The Atlantic has warmed up considerably. Climate change and El Nino. This produces energy, this energy spins into saturated low pressure systems that track across the Atlantic one after the other by a southerly locked jet stream. We are directly in the firing line. If it makes you feel better, we share this weather with lots of Northern European countries, The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, have all had equally record breaking wet weather for the last 18 months.
That's a depressing read on many levels! Does that mean that from now on we can expect wet weather all year round forever?!?
who knows, but it could also be soon getting a lot cooler in these parts
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39810-w
We need a combo of: El Nino to subside (which it will do/Is already doing) and the jet stream to move to the north. This will drag a high pressure system that hangs about in the mid-Atlantic just north of the Azores to block the flow of the low pressure systems, and squeeze the low pressure system that hangs about just to the south of Iceland further to the polar regions.
It won't last forever, weather systems never do. Just be relived we're not living though the Little Ice Age
"I’ve had conversations with some weirdo’s that think we had a great summer"
I experience this too; I find it fascinating how other people perceive it totally differently – it has most definitely been very wet for a very long time.
It may be because I am outside a lot in my free time. Cycling increases this, especially if not being able to ride gravel, as it’s mud! And a lot of dog walking in the countryside = a lot of mud. For those that don’t remember the weather being so dire, I suspect they spend a lot more time languishing on the sofa.
Yep, my partner remembers last summer as blissfully warm in June and the couple of days she had with friends outdoors were just "normal summer weather" A lot of us are out every weekend, and there's some evidence that suggests that weather follows somewhat of a of 7 day cycle, and that if it rains, it does rain more in the afternoon. So if you a biker that rides in the afternoon on the same day each week that coincides with the weather cycle...
As I recall, 20 and 21 were extraordinarily long and dry summers, 22 was similar, 23 started well but lost it's way around the end of June. It's been raining ever since.
20, 21 and 22 were the anomalies, normal service has now resumed (although a bit on the wet side)
Like most of you, I'm so fed up with this weather, so when a spare place came up on our club tour to Italy I grabbed it, looking forward to a bit of sunny, dry, warm riding. Just looked at the forecast for the day we arrive:
12 degrees and rain. FFS!
"soon" = any time between 2025 and 2095 i.e. they haven't got a ****ing clue 😂who knows, but it could also be soon getting a lot cooler in these parts
Ne'er cast a clout til May is out.
I've been hailed on cycling in Wales in June.
The Atlantic has warmed up considerably. Climate change and El Nino. This produces energy, this energy spins into saturated low pressure systems that track across the Atlantic one after the other by a southerly locked jet stream.
I thought climate change was supposed to weaken and push the jet stream further North giving us a climate more like central and the west coast of France. I wish it would hurry up and get the memo
Nice weather today, yay.
While it does feel like the rain is strangling me, it must be said I have no such complaints about the wind. Love it, the blowier the better.
The tailwind on the way to visit B&Q yesterday was glorious, there's nothing like effortlessly sailing along a smooth road at 30mph on a road bike.
(The less said about the return direction the better...)
Can I have my winter covers back when you find them?
Just had to do a complete bearing change on the FS. Last one was in January.
As for the reasons, I believe the jetstream has been royally ****ed by the crazy water temps we have been having. Sea temperatures are still well above the normal. So not only are we getting low pressure system after low pressure system, they've all got more energy and are carrying more water.
The fun could really start when hurricane season arrives and they start rolling up the US coast and rebounding out towards us. Normally they start to weaken, but if the sea temperatures remain high, they could hold onto a bit more energy than usual.
Just had to do a complete bearing change on the FS. Last one was in January.
Blimey! How much are you riding?
Have you considered getting an Orange?
Blimey! How much are you riding?
1,000 miles of slop since January, basically. I've been on towpaths wherever possible, but it was to be expected. I've got a new bike waiting in the garage, but it's not showing its face while the trails are in this state.
I’ve always had the mindset to embrace the wind, it makes you stronger but it’s now getting to the point of ridiculous!!
I’ve just cycled back from the supermarket (6 miles)with the family’s weekly shopping on my trailer and it has done me.
Looking forward to the day when rain is my only nemesis.😀
I take it all back! I can see blue sky and the sun streaming in from the window beside me is warming me up nicely*
*It'll be back to the rain tomorrow, I accept that.
“I’ve had conversations with some weirdo’s that think we had a great summer”
I experience this too; I find it fascinating how other people perceive it totally differently – it has most definitely been very wet for a very long time.
Never mind last summer, quite a few people on this thread seem to think that we're experiencing normal weather at the moment. Either they are deluded or just contrary - I tend to think it's the latter, just arguing for the sake of it. Showers, hail, sun and wind are normal for this month. Rain every day for months isn't.
Going back to last year, I was in London in October (lateish in the month?) and it was very hot. T-shirt and picnic weather, but my mind keeps telling me that it's rained since July though, which is obviously wrong.
So we had a bit of sun yesterday, then it went as black as mother's coal shed in winter and we had an almighty hail storm, then it got sunny again.
And I walked te dog this morning and there was a ground frost.
WTAF
Brooding sky and spots of rain when I started riding yesterday evening, then the sun came out and the trails turned out to be surprisingly dry.
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Looks like a dry week ahead, at least.
Edit: And now this POS website doesn't even seem to recognise HTML tags
Frost this morning in north Glasgow at about 6am. 2 deg while out on the bike for an hour, between 6:30-7:30.
Got hailed on on sunday.
was overdressed in 3/4 shorts a nd a mid baselayer a week before.
it's a confusing time for my easy acess biking kit drawer, 3/4 shorts are now in there, but so are my mid thermal longs, along with short sleeved tops! chaos! 😉
I'm not the only one with an easy access drawer? just the stuff I regularly use, easy to grab, a few options for the variable weather, with the rest of the kit for all other times of the year in it's normal storage in the wardrobe? Mostly to make it so when I'm out in the mornings I don't wake up the OH rifling through the wardrobe (not a euphamism)
Lot's of thing depress me. But the weather isn't one. Who cares. Its rarely trying to kill us with extremes. The days that its actually so bad i don't want to go outside are so few and far between thats they're almost a treat.
Out last night - near Forest of Dean and 99% dry with just a few puddles. Last week it was a pit of endless slop. Bluebells are out as well. Should have taken some pics but was too good to stop.
Weekend looks good as well. Off to FoD proper for 'bluebell day'.
All the fields round us are drying up super quickly as well. I know this as every second vehicle on our lane is a tractor!
Aaaand. It's raining again.
Was t shirt weather in Essex, was buzzing for a group ride tonight, got an early finish., spoke to the lads, headed up the motorway
Few things annoyed me on the way home, then I got back to Derbyshire and it was gusty wind, cold and raining.. Every bit of enthusiasm drained from me and I just threw my toys out of the pram and didn't bother. Spent the next hour in a stinking mood and came to the gym
My (flat) local woods occasionally get flooded in winter for a couple of weeks. This year they flooded in November and are still more flooded (like 8ft deep flooded) now than I have ever seen seen it in previous years. All of the other ponds are full to the top.
The water table is basically about 1cm below the ground.
Thankfully things are drying out a bit where there is a slope, hard to come by in Leicestershire aside from Charnwood.
Was going to do the club pub ride tonight to clear my head after a shitty day at work, that started with scraping the ice off the car this morning
Wind and rain persuaded me to stay home and clear the case I'd been working on today.
Sunburnt today, wind burnt earlier in week
I might have cursed it by starting a thread about summer tyres, and actually fitting said tyres last week.
I actuality bothered to wash the mud off my bikes lay weekend, sorry.
Got up yesterday morning and had to defrost the car. As I was looking up at the clear blue skies I was thinking ‘excellent, I can get out on the bike this evening. 4 o clock arrives and as I knock off work it’s torrential rain, coming in sideways! Arse!
Lot’s of thing depress me. But the weather isn’t one. Who cares. Its rarely trying to kill us with extremes.
I beg to differ.
But this morning marked a changing of the season for me. The climate control in the car pumped out warm air for the first time this year as the temperature dipped below 20.
I beg to differ.
*In the UK
I may have jinxed it but I've taken the covers off the garden furniture and assembled the parasol. Currently sitting in the garden in the sunshine having lunch
Lot’s of thing depress me. But the weather isn’t one. Who cares.
I ride all year round, and I'm very much "no such thing as the wrong weather..." sort of rider, but in exchange for those grim days when the wind is driving rain/hail into every bit of exposed skin and you're soaked through and you look like Swamp Thing, the pay-off is the memory of last summer and the summer to come when you know you'll get those all day summer rides when even a tee-shirt and shorts is too much clothes, and those perfect summer evening rides when you're chasing the light back home becasue you spent too long sitting on the ridge watching the world go by, or you stopped for an ice cream.
We really didn't get much of that last summer, and excluding a nice week or so in September it's been slashing it down since July last year, and it hasn't really stopped since then, as our weather system has been trapped by the Jet Stream and a warm Atlantic. We reached storm Kathleen for goodness sake, that 11 named storms of the 23/24 season, the most there's ever been, and that was only a couple of weeks ago!
I’ve been moaning about the weather for months and nothing has changed, then along comes the OP with a single moan and hey presto two days on the trot where it hasn’t rained or been blowing a gale or both.
Keep it up OP. More moaning please. 😎👍