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i'm glad i walked, took the train and bus, the roads are awful and predictably it's armageddon for car commuters around here
sterling work by the bus driver even if he did get it sideways around a couple of corners
I leave at 6.30am and it was OK. The back roads were sheet compacted snow and I eased out nice and slowy, but it was -10.8 degrees on my weather station at some point last night, -8.0 when I left. The more main roads lookd like they did yesterday - Wet, slushy. But I tested it with a tweak of the throttle and got wheelspin. It had obviously frozen up, salt or no salt...
Lots of the roads that looked clear were the same - icy - and I imagine people less cautios than me are swapping ends and burying it in the scenery by now.....
Bristol - bit slippy at my house and at the other end at work but other than that, fine and not the ice-fest I was concerned it might be.
Anybody know roughly what temperature a salted/gritted road will freeze over again?
IIRC -14 is the point that grit stops working
Brine freezes at 0 degrees Fahrenheit - that's how that zero point was defined (I only learned that last night!)
minus 9 when i set off on the bike.
got a nice new earwarmer thing from north face which made my commute nice.
little things please little minds........ 8)
havent left yet 🙂
not many in yet then 😕
took twice as long as usual due to mincing the downs and grannying the ups.
I cycled in no bother, nowt on the roads and loads of grip in the snow, great fun.
My ears were cold though.