Skagit Valley Ride (Mt Vernon - La Conner) - Sat, 4/19
OK, we're on for a ride in Skagit Valley per Jesvetmed's earlier post. Sat, 4/19.
I'll be heading up from just north of Seattle...so, who else is coming?
PM me and I'll forward you the driving directions to our start location. I'll bring a cue sheet/map for each rider too.
It's tulip festival time during April in the Skagit Valley, so there will be traffic on the main roads, however there are good shoulders in most places and we'll take a bunch of quiet back roads too. For those of you who aren't familiar with this route, it's about 32 miles, flat but usually windy when we're out in the open in the valley; the only 2 pulls are heading up overpasses. We'll regroup regularly and stop in La Conner - there are plenty of places to get snacks/sandwiches/drinks - also restrooms - before heading back past more tulip fields to Mt Vernon. Let's figure that the weather will warm up, especially at night, so that the we'll luck out with timing and the tulips will bloom just in time for our ride!
Tailwinds!
Mary
Regretfully, weather forces CANCEL of Sat's ride in Skagit County
I'll send PMs also, but unfortunately, the weather looks worse for Sat, than just being unseasonably cold, so we'll have to cancel our plans to ride.
I checked a local tv station for the Sat weather forecast a few minutes ago (below) and it looks too 'yecchy' (technical term!) and maybe even too slick and dangerous to ride. We'll try to put another ride on the calendar again soon; thanks for your patience.
"The bulk of the cold air arrives Friday night and into Saturday. And while we won't have much moisture around, whatever showers that are out there could again be in the form of snow, especially late Friday night/early Saturday morning and above 500 feet or perhaps briefly lower in heavier showers. And again, no significant accumulations expected beyond a dusting to maybe enough to cover the grass in spots, although if you get a really heavy showers, I suppose it'd be possible for an isolated place or two to get an inch or so.
But aside from snow, we might also see ice pellets, hail and maybe some occasional lightning as the atmospheres will be quite unstable. Temperatures will probably briefly claw their way to the mid 40s at some point in between showers so that will be our official high, but I bet many areas spend most of the day closer to 38-40. "
Tailwinds!
Mary
