Heatwave

meanredspider

Wow - temps back into the 20's again for the rest of this week - great news

bails87

Or should that be 8)

Mr Plum

Just in time for my Wednesday and Friday social rides 8)

Happy that I'll probably make it into October before putting the good bike away for winter.

Cafewanda

I just want it to last until Saturday night as I'm on a bike ride that day.

veronese68

Even in the 20s in the frozen wastelands of the north. Blimey. It's good isn't it. Glorious ride home tonight. Slow as every man, woman, child and their dogs were out. But glorious.

Jay dubbleU

Me too - 40mile MTB around the New Forest 8) - where's KB and his geography student now ?

notlongnow

Midges out in swarms though close ya mouth time

rjsterry

Too sticky for my tastes, but did enjoy the noticeable drop in temperature as I rode over Mitcham Common - very refreshing.

itboffin

Warm yes, windy oh hell yes 27mph this morning :evil:

Initialised

If the predictions of ice and snow by the end of October are true then we could be looking at a 30C plus temperature swing. Three seasons in one month.

rolf_f

Initialised wrote:

If the predictions of ice and snow by the end of October are true then we could be looking at a 30C plus temperature swing. Three seasons in one month.

But whose predictions are those? The vaguely useful Met Office ones or the pointless, quack forecasters that the poorer quality papers like quoting so much?

DrLex

27mph? You really are in Windshire- was it straight off the Plain?
Still and misty in neighbouring Somerset; the main concern being low sun and unlit oncoming vehicles when you've a vehicle behind you, itching to overtake.

Mark Bom

It was a bit chilly this morning first thing, but as the sun started to rise there was a noticable rise in temperature.

Really looking forward to riding home with sun on my skin.....although I didn't bring any dark lenses for my shades....balls!

itboffin

There was defo a slight sse headwind this morning but nothing like 27mph, it was chilly tho and v foggy still, hopefully it'll be the same tomorrow so I can take some snaps

Kieran_Burns

I'm really hoping my helmet cam caught the dawn this morning - that was just bloody marvellous - there were light wisps of cloud on the horizon that were lighting up all the colours of the rainbow as the Sun came up. It was like little tongues of fire rising up from the ground in front of me. Nature can really put on a beautiful show when she wants....

Setting off in the pitch black and getting to work in the blazing sunshine - God that made the 5am wake up worth it.

meanredspider

notlongnow wrote:

Midges out in swarms though close ya mouth time

God no - think of all that protein!

It's the big baggers you hear thwacking off your lid that worry me!

DrLex

itboffin wrote:

There was defo a slight sse headwind this morning but nothing like 27mph, it was chilly tho and v foggy still, hopefully it'll be the same tomorrow so I can take some snaps

Ah; I had interpreted your post as a 27mph head wind rather than your speed over the ground.
Looking forward to another ride home in the high twenties - Celsius rather than MpH.

rick_chasey

Just in time for going on holiday...

veronese68

meanredspider wrote:

notlongnow wrote:

Midges out in swarms though close ya mouth time

God no - think of all that protein!

It's the big baggers you hear thwacking off your lid that worry me!

Have you factored these into your weight loss programme? This could be the unaccounted for factor that is screwing things up.

mudcow007

it was bleeding freezing here this morning...i think its whats known as "brisk"

i was sweating like a snake caught in a wagon rut last night though

bails87

Kieran_Burns wrote:

. Nature can really put on a beautiful show when she wants....

I wasn't up as early as you, but as you say, it was a beautiful morning. A light haze on the roads, the sun coming up through banks of mist across the fields. In places the mist was about 6 foot above the ground, perfectly clear underneath, like London air at head height And then the temperature changes, from dry, crisp, cool air I'd round a corner, come out into sunshine and mist and all of a sudden it was 10 degrees warmer and humid.

Gorgeous

NGale

I'm hoping the weather stays good for this weekend, it may actually mean I won't get stageone hypothermia on this field weekend like the last one I went on :shock:

5tu-pid

Jay dubbleU wrote:

Me too - 40mile MTB around the New Forest 8) - where's KB and his geography student now ?

Hey Jay, Im doing this too - akthough im only doing the 25 miles as I'm doing the 100 mile sportive on the Sunday too!

meanredspider

Woohoo - up to 22C and the Wunderground page no longer lists "Windchill" but "Heat Index" - which is at a stonking 25C! (sorry - it probably counts as one of the hottest days of the year up here! OK 27.4 was but you see my point)

Twostage

Did anyone else go through any what I'm calling 'heat bubbles' this morning ? I went through a few where the temperature suddenly shot up for a about 100 feet and then dropped down again. At one point I went through one where it was misty and it was like cycling in the sub-tropical dome at centre parcs.
I'm guessing that this week is what we used to call summer.

bails87

Twostage wrote:

Did anyone else go through any what I'm calling 'heat bubbles' this morning ? I went through a few where the temperature suddenly shot up for a about 100 feet and then dropped down again. At one point I went through one where it was misty and it was like cycling in the sub-tropical dome at centre parcs.
I'm guessing that this week is what we used to call summer.

bails87 wrote:

And then the temperature changes, from dry, crisp, cool air I'd round a corner, come out into sunshine and mist and all of a sudden it was 10 degrees warmer and humid.

Yep. Strange wasn't it.

meanredspider

Nearly 25C - just talking with colleagues to say that days like this should be holidays. Looking forward to the ride home - just wishing I was wearing my road lid.

Jay dubbleU

5tu-pid wrote:

Jay dubbleU wrote:

Me too - 40mile MTB around the New Forest 8) - where's KB and his geography student now ?

Hey Jay, Im doing this too - akthough im only doing the 25 miles as I'm doing the 100 mile sportive on the Sunday too!

Cool - watch out for the blue Charge Duster

mudcow007

hot hot hot hot here

im pencilled in to do a 30 mile ride home (normally its only 6 miles)

but i dont have a bottle cage or my drink bottle :shock:

if im not on-line tomorrow i will be probably shrivelled up like a prune at the side of the road somewhere

MonkeyMonster

cornetto duly dispatched to my belleh

whyamihere

My BMR is far too high to cope with hot weather. If I try to go out on the bike today, I'll collapse after about 30 metres and require a saline drip to rehydrate.

I'm one of those people you see in shorts and a tshirt while it's snowing, grinning like an idiot.