22mph winds today?

artaxerxes
artaxerxes Posts: 612
edited May 2009 in Commuting chat
Well it looks pretty windy outside according to the BBC weather site, but looking out of the office window it looks like a lovely sunny day. Anyone been outside this lunchtime? Is it really that blustery?

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  • sarajoy
    sarajoy Posts: 1,675
    Aye most of the trees here are having several rounds of hell knocked out of them! They all seem to be leaning over in the same direction...
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  • Rich158
    Rich158 Posts: 2,348
    Unfortunately it is in Greenwich, good luck going back up the hill into the wind :wink:
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  • artaxerxes
    artaxerxes Posts: 612
    I'll bypass the park and go home via Lewisham then :)
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    Reckon I'd be on for a PB going home with it blowing that way, if I hadn't popped a spoke on Wednesday and found out that it'll take till next Tuesday for a new one to materialise.

    Between the wind, we had a massive hailstorm mid-morning. Lovely.
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    sarajoy wrote:
    Aye most of the trees here are having several rounds of hell knocked out of them! They all seem to be leaning over in the same direction...

    Time to worry is when they're leaning into each other or in random directions.
  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    drove in today :oops: but that was because I had an early start and a load of stuff to carry in.

    Part of me wishes I had cycled in anyway as the winds would've blown me along with NO effort.

    The other part keeps thinking about horizontal trees and me cycling INTO that gale the whole way home.... :?
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  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    My 40mph downhill coast was turned into a pedal and barely manage 25! Damn wind, I think I need a skinsuit :idea:
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,396
    This weeks been a complete write off :evil:


    Only stopped raining long enough for the feckin' hailstones to start.

    Where's that 'Winter Weather Watch Thread' gone?

    Anyway, sun to return early Sat AM, hope to do my first ever 50 miler.
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  • FyPunK
    FyPunK Posts: 160
    Hardly had to pedal this morning and arrived freezing cold, we have gusts of 41mph for tonights commute home, straight down my throat and no where to hide, I am not looking forward to this at all, one small mercy, at the moment it aint raining.
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  • gtvlusso
    gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
    Rain and wind this morning, tail wind.

    Overcast and gusty winid tonight - headwind....

    nuts!
  • LDN-Flyer
    LDN-Flyer Posts: 97
    Wind = Training
  • jamesco
    jamesco Posts: 687
    The wind's annoying, but hopefully it'll blow all that sodding fluff off the plane trees, once and for all - have had to give up on contacts for now 'cause they get turned to sandpaper!
  • Fireblade96
    Fireblade96 Posts: 1,123
    Windy as fork here.
    Fortunately I decided to work from home, as otherwise I'd still be halfway along the A4, gaining ground in the lulls and going backward in the gusts !

    My fence looks like it's about to collapse :-(

    Dammit, wish I was sailing rather than stuck here working...it'd be, uh, envigorating :twisted:
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  • Jay dubbleU
    Jay dubbleU Posts: 3,159
    Tailwind home :D:D:D
  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    Jay dubbleU wrote:
    Tailwind home :D:D:D

    Don't bank on it, I had a headwind on the way in yesterday, and on the way home, and again this morning :evil:

    All on the same strech of road.
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Looks like a westerly in Kensington, not very strong though...
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  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    Is 22mph supposed to be "windy"?

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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Always Tyred wrote:
    Is 22mph supposed to be "windy"?

    Rhubarbrhubarbsoftielondonersrhubarb.

    Presumably, you've got horizontal sleet coming in from Serbia as I type, with a hurricane coming in from the West. :wink:
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  • moonio
    moonio Posts: 802
    I'm just worried about the fruit trees I planted in the garden but didnt get round to staking...I guess I'll find out when I get home. :(
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    moonio wrote:
    I'm just worried about the fruit trees I planted in the garden but didnt get round to staking...I guess I'll find out when I get home. :(

    Bad move, just you wait until they're mature and you spend hours picking up wind fails arghhh damn fruit trees, my last house had 6 fruit trees in a 60 ft garden bloody things had more fruit than the man from del monte :lol:
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  • b0y1nterupted
    b0y1nterupted Posts: 124
    cjcp wrote:
    Always Tyred wrote:
    Is 22mph supposed to be "windy"?

    Rhubarbrhubarbsoftielondonersrhubarb.

    Presumably, you've got horizontal sleet coming in from Serbia as I type, with a hurricane coming in from the West. :wink:

    we just had a small tornado here but i just MTFU & out ran it :wink:
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  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    cjcp wrote:
    Always Tyred wrote:
    Is 22mph supposed to be "windy"?

    Rhubarbrhubarbsoftielondonersrhubarb.

    Presumably, you've got horizontal sleet coming in from Serbia as I type, with a hurricane coming in from the West. :wink:
    Hail in fact. None of it landing because the wind is so strong, its going all the way back up, carrying the odd small child with it.
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    DOROTHY!
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