Feckin cold

Yet another cold wet miserable day in the UK
Almost into May and it's still crap
What's happened to global warming/climate change/climate crisis
Shouldn't we be burnt to a crisp by now
Come on Greta sort it out FFS

baz said:

Yet another cold wet miserable day in the UK
Almost into May and it's still crap
What's happened to global warming/climate change/climate crisis
Shouldn't we be burnt to a crisp by now
Come on Greta sort it out FFS

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31F this morning, but sunny, headed to low 60's mid day.

Single figure temps overnight, and still pishing down (Welsh borders). Rode my Commando around the lanes for a few miles last week, looked like I had been off roading by the time I got home.

baz said:

Yet another cold wet miserable day in the UK
Almost into May and it's still crap
What's happened to global warming/climate change/climate crisis
Shouldn't we be burnt to a crisp by now
Come on Greta sort it out FFS

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It's all - Lies, damned lies, and statistics

It's all - Lies, damned lies, and ....... a chance to tax us all the more and for us to be happy for it too !!

Cold ..... I put a padlock on my boiler a few weeks back

I rode winter and summer in Seattle, which has weather much like London or Vancouver. I bought a lap apron from Langlietz Leathers in Portland Oregon and still have it. I had it modified to fit round the carb hoses on my R100. I also upgraded the alternators on both bikes to support an electric vest. Riding behind a windshield with an open-face helmet on yet another bike, I had frost bitten cheeks by the time I got to work. Wore the full face helmet after that. This year I'm on the inland side of the mountains and it's yet to stop freezing over night. Hard frost yesterday. overcast today but warmer. But rather than fit the lap apron I'm waiting for warm dry weather. It always comes and with it wildfire smoke. Sigh....

Never tried electric comfort on a motorcycle but am sure I could convert

Years back the only winter concession on my daily hack was a pair of elephant ears / mitts that fitted onto the bars - incredibly ugly but wonderfully effective !

I have used those also. I bought a beautiful leather and fur-lined set that I never used as I got laid off from that job right afterwards. Pogies we called them.

Spring fishing in winter clothes . Ice on the deck last Monday

For years I’ve shunned heated clothing. A mate is a big advocate of it but it always seemed a cross between cheating and unnecessary to me.

But… I suspect I could be coming around to the idea now…

I love our winter ride days here usually 18c to 24c day weather and our night time cold usually between 9c and 6c but only gets down to 6c a few nights only, but our southern states get a lot colder as well west of the Great Divide range that runs up the East coast of Australia the early morning temps can get to -2c, but living on the coast the temps are warmer, but living in sub tropics our winters are great but out summers can get very hot and humid, sometime too hot for riding.

Ashley

18 - 24 is a British Summer !!! ..... and a good one at that .... should have emigrated when I was a youngster after all

Grandad said:

18 - 24 is a British Summer !!! ..... and a good one at that .... should have emigrated when I was a youngster after all

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I always have a bit of a laugh when I see on the news England going through a heatwave when the temps get to 30c, that is our normal summer temp not many days under 30c lol, up the top end in the tropics of Australia the winter day temps are still in the 30c+ range and the nights get down to about 18c, I am down further and live in the sub tropics, but we get high humidity which makes it feel more hotter and can get quite uncomfortable, but I don't have AC in my house and my windows are always open 24/7 all year round and in the old days our houses were built with wide open verandas that kept the middle of the house cool in summer, they called them Queenslanders named after my state of Queensland.

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Spring fishing in winter clothes . Ice on the deck last Monday

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Looks like a keeper, where in NJ were you fishing? There's no better eating striper or grouper if you're down south, USA.

NORTSTER1974 said:

Looks like a keeper, where in NJ were you fishing? There's no better eating striper or grouper if you're down south, USA.

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South Jersey, Egg Harbor River
Regs this year a 1 fish between 28"-31" I think.
That was a little over 33"
I usually catch and release now, especially in the Spring. Spawn time, let them make babies.

Heading into late autumn down here. Blue skies today and a minus 1 C frost last night but still a few flowers in the garden.

Fortnight ago first track weekend. Frost on bike in the morning. Warmed up to +5C. Tyres never got warm.
Yesterday +20C. Trees turning green.

It has been drier past few days but you get the odd shower most days. And of course they are ploughing and
that means clods of clay on the roads. Once that dries it is as if it was welded to the bike. I haven't ventured out on two wheels yet.

Onder said:

It has been drier past few days but you get the odd shower most days. And of course they are ploughing and
that means clods of clay on the roads. Once that dries it is as if it was welded to the bike. I haven't ventured out on two wheels yet.

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Looks a bit misty yet. The mornings here are chilly even with the sun. I'll be covering the lemon tree soon from the frosts.

Move south - we're sweating them off. Fired up the AC last night - 83F in the house and expecting at least 90F today.

You Britts need to remember you're closer to the Artic circle than you are to where the majority of the people of the world live! When I lived in Stuttgart, it was more northern that any part of the US other than Alaska. The southern most part of England is more northern than any part of the US other than Alaska.

There has been plenty of climate change in Virginia since I've lived here. Some of it good. In the 70s if you were outside in Washington DC from July-September you were breathing terrible air. Along came the pollution controls we all hated. Fast forward to 2000 and terrible air days didn't happen often. However, bad air days are on the rise again. There is no industry or farming in the Washington DC metro area - it's all pollution from cars and people - if nothing were done long ago it would not be possible to breath outdoors here and hard to breathe indoors.

BTW, one prevailing theory of what caused the last ice age was global warming! Of course, it takes thousands of years - not happening in this century!

US Highway 50 goes from coast to coast (3072 miles). It is mostly asphalt. It is approximately 800 million surface square feet. During the day when the sun is shining the air temperature above the road is about 20F hotter than the surrounding air. Partly due to car exhaust and partly do heating from the black asphalt. That's one road. Over all, the US has around 709 billon surface square feet of asphalt - all heating the air.

IMHO, the world isn't ending soon like the climate crazies would have you believe, but you're loonytoons if you think there are no climate-related issues.