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We've already got -8C here in Aviemore. -13C over at Loch Glascarnoch (not far from Puffer-ville).
forecast to plummet to -4 here in Oxfordshire. That's a bed enough start to the commute. Can't imagine -13 on a bike.
Hmmm... May just drive tomorrow. Already had one black ice/shoulder interface this year.
Cold here tonight too, apparently it's going down to -1. I may still cycle in the morning.
Snow should be nice and firm in the morning, suitable for some fatbike manoeuvres
Snow should be nice and firm in the morning
-9 when I got home last night - drove the van across the virgin snow in the courtyard outside my house and didn't dent it!
+1C on the Sarf Coast ATM 😆
Enjoy the "cruch"
Stay safe though 😉
-4 on my ride to work this morning
Should have put those second gloves on!
Is it just me or does the difference between -2'c and say -8'c feel pretty similar? I find that once it gets bellow a certain temp then anything colder doesn't feel much colder. If that makes sense?!
might get my bike ready for a morning ride on the hills if it's going to be frozen rather than muddy.
No snow in the FoD 😥 Bloody cold though. Wish it was like it was in Wales 2 years ago. -18 and 18" snow in Betws
Hit minus double figures a few times around Cannock during the winter of 2010-11. As above -15 doesnt feel significantly worse than -5 apart from weird stuff like reservoir tubes freezing, snot freezing and bike instantly freezing when falling through ice into streams during 'watch this' moments 😳
MrsMC spent a year in Russia in the 90s, hit -38 that winter. Her view is that -25 doesn't feel much different to -5, but the damage it can do as a result is lethal.
I commuted in 2010-11(?) at -6, then came off on ice and wimped out after that. A mate recorded -15 that winter riding in to Derby.
Supposed to be -3 when I set off on my bike to work at ten tonight. Dropping to -5 when I finish at 6am. Should be intresting on the way home.....
flipping hate winter, however picturesque snow covered hills are it pales in comparison to the pleasure of riding a bike in T shirt and shorts when it's light and sunny till past 9.30pm.
Minus 7 when I was driving home around 16.00, in a nice well spaced out line of cars doing 50 mph. I think that is the first time I have ever driven that road and not been overtaken, some very sensible driving going on out there.
We live on a bus route, so almost my entire route to work is gritted.
Hmm, it's the only day I can cycle in to work tomorrow, main roads it is then. Yay.
Just got back from North Finland where it hit -39 in Ivalo/Nellim area. Bizarrely not that bad when suitably attired (excluding the fact you can't breath through your mouth and the inside of your nose freezes in a tickly icy kind of way). Temps rose to -20s and as above, they feel oddly comfortable. The trick is not to do anything that involves exertion or potential to sweat.
Despite seeming heroics, I bottled my night road ride for fear of shoulder/road interfaces on icy North Wales passes.
Edit: I should add, I wasn't riding in Finland!
-2.5 this morning on the way into Manc.
but it was dry so pretty nice.
I think the secret of keeping you hands warm is not only decent gloves but also keeping your arms/core warm. if my arms are cold no matter what gloves on my fingers get cold.
Currently -13 on our thermometer at Nethy, just been defrosting the washer jets on the car with a heatgun and filling up with -40 screenwash after a blurry drive home.
I'm generally fine till -17 when I can feel the moisture inside my nose start to freeze. Its also about where I have to be careful of diesel freezing in the lines.
Love the cold. Heading out for a night ride. Coolish here in Fort William, but just normal winter weather. Did the GGW to Fort Augustus and back yesterday because I was jealous of those getting exercise at the 'Puffer.
I commute by motorbike, as does Mrs PP.
So far this winter my record low is -6. Which was fine actually as it was bone dry so there was no ice. As long as I can get the 1/2 mile out of the estate I'll be fine on gritted roads but the other day I rode to the end of our road, 150 yards or so, on the pavement as it looked safer...... Fine after that. 🙂
It's bone dry now so I hope it'll be fine tomorrow when we're expcting -5
When I cycle commuted my best was -7 which turned my water bottle into a slush puppie! Snow more than doubled my time more than once, but at least I got in (7.4 miles) when a collegue who lived 2-3 miles away didn't. 🙂
You be careful PP when it gets you you go down fast!
Yeah. It's a carefully calculated risk. I go out and check the road as soon as I get up.
[quote=r8jimbob88 ]Is it just me or does the difference between -2'c and say -8'c feel pretty similar? In the UK we [i]tend[/i] to get colder temperatures when it's not very windy. It's the wind chill that's the real killer (often literally).
flipping hate winter, however picturesque snow covered hills are it pales in comparison to the pleasure of riding a bike in T shirt and shorts when it's light and sunny till past 9.30pm.
+1. We haven't had a severe winter so far and already I'm sick of it. Crap.
I recall the times riding to work when my porridge would freeze.
(No, this is not a euphemism. I used to mix milk and oats in a wide-necked bidon - overnight and into work would soften the oats. Not when it was minus 5..!)
It's a bit brisk I'll grant you but I'm always reminded of this whenever the weather reports turn a bit chilly.
Oymyakon's solitary school only shuts if temperatures fall below -52C.
Another motorbike commuter. Been off all week so not bothered. Train tomorrow as my streets on a hill and its still an ice rink.
Bugger it. Only -0.5 outside, bike commute it is.
Had -11 on the dashboard thermometer this AM on the way to Inverness. Baltic.
flipping hate winter, however picturesque snow covered hills are it pales in comparison to the pleasure of riding a bike in T shirt and shorts when it's light and sunny till past 9.30pm.
That's not the alternative though. It's between picturesque snow and hard ground or unrelenting bleak mud.. I know which I prefer 🙂
Anyway, only going to be -2 here in Stockholm tonight and the same up north in Sundsvall. Loads of snow though apparently.
i love winter........suits me fine. i think my bodily make up suits the cold. plenty of natural insulation.
icy cold 10 mile canalside commute for me......stay away from the edge mind.... 😀
-2 ride at Gisburn tonight, fabulous fun in the snow and ice
Even -3 in the soft south!
Lovely crisp ride in the Pentlands this evening. A dusting of snow covering the trails.
Rode 7km to work in -20 when I was living in Chamonix. That was chilly - had to cover all the skin on my face and couldn't keep my hands warm even with winter gloves and over mittens.
Yesterday morning on south coast of mid-Cornwall I had to de-ice my car! Unprecedented.
Nothing says "**** you" quite like having to scrape ice on the inside of your car windows in the morning. Froze my baws off in the garage last night, getting more than a foot from the heater was not recommended
I think we got down to -11c. Off to explore the trails in a bit.
My brother's a joiner in Canada; they gave up working on the roof when the daytime max didn't get above -20C.
was -6 in henley round 7 this morning. -4 in other nearby areas
... and it's still only January...
Only -1 coming in to work this morning, a couple of degrees warmer than yesterday, not quite as forecast.
Hoping they have tonights snow wrong as well, I have to be in Bamford for 9am tomorrow.
A positively balmy -3 here. More snow forecast for later though. On top of the lethal sheet ice that everything but the main roads are presently covered in, that should be fun. Can't see myself feeling the urge to commute on the bike tomorrow somehow
Oh go on bins. If I can, so can you. 🙂
I remember two weeks of -25C at night in Aviemore 15 years ago or so. Whole of Scotland was frozen solid, even climbed Steall Falls in Glen Nevis which was frozen solid.
Just hitting the +'s in darkest Hampshire. Quick 70k's around the New Forest and it's still sheet Ice form the field runoff, dips with puddles in etc.
Take it easy, looks like it'll remain that way tonight too..