Tag: weather
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A Dry Cloudless Autumn in Switzerland
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I was struck by a paradoxical site. An Autumnal looking stream that has practically dried up. A week ago the river could be seen, and the rocks, and stones. Last night, during a group run what I saw was yellow leaves sitting on still water, with no water flowing. Water is…
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On A Silly Fly That Flew Into a Fridge and Fell Asleep
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor a week or so there were a lot of flies clustering. I believe that this was due to weather weirding. For months it was too warm, and dry, so they didn’t breed as voraciously. Eventually the weather changed temporarily so there was an infestation for those with bad luck. During…
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The Summer That Never Left and Uninvited Flies
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently I went out for the entire day and when I came home I had a swarm of flies sitting by the velux, two days in a row. The buzzing was loud. It’s a good thing that I am not squeamish about flies because this was the stuff of nightmares. This summer…
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The Skipped Morning Ride
Reading Time: 2 minutesSome people would have skipped this morning’s ride because it was cold. The temperature was forecast to be minus two degrees celsius and with the wind chill factor, and regional differences it could have felt like minus 5°c or cooler. I skipped because the cold that has been annoying me for days…
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On Rain and Using it as an Excuse Not To Cycle or Walk
Reading Time: 3 minutesBike rides have been cancelled because of rain, rather than wind or other factors. When it rains cyclists don’t want to ride because it gets their bike dirty and they have to clean it, lubricate it and more. With hikers rain is also an excuse to be lazy, within some groups. With…
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A Rain Soaked Walk in the Swiss countryside
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I planned to walk so I put on my hiking boots and just as I was about to go out I heard large rain drops hit the velux. I thought "according to the weather app the rain should be light". It wasn’t light. It was heavy and sustained. You might think…
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Autumn Rain and Cancelled Bike Rides
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast night I could have gone for a group ride, and it wouldn’t have rained on, despite what the weather said. As I went for a ride that morning, and felt tired, it felt rational not to ride in the evening. Last night it rained consistently until this morning but now…
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Waiting for Cyclone Erin and Rain
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn RTS Info they warn about Erin, the ex-cyclone probably hitting Switzerland, dumping a lot of rain. The alert for some areas is level 5. This is for a narrow band in the Alps on the Italo-Swiss border. The possible impacts are ‘extreme rise in water of rivers and lakes, flooding in…
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The Energetic Cycling Rest Day
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn Sunday evening I saw that a ride was planned for Monday evening. Usually I would hae skipped this ride because I felt that I should rest. According to Garmin I should have taken a rest day. I intended to have a calm bike ride, until I got onto the bike and…
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The Curious Habit of Dressing to Be Cold
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of the strangest things, in my observation of other people, is that they dress as if it was warm when it was cold. They dress in shorts and t-shirts to walk in the mountains in spring. That’s quite absurd, given how the mountains, in April tend to be cold. Others dress…