Ghastly Weather

[Python]

Had to take the car today (again). I've never seen so much rain last for so long. It started about 11pm last night. The lightning was lighting up the sky. The rain has been torrential since then. We've had thunder and lightning off and on all day and there's quite a strong wind too. It's also quite cold. The police have closed off the town centre (never seen that happen before) and several roads in our town are also closed. One of our sales reps is stranded in another town as the main road back has been closed due to flooding.

I'm getting severely frustrated at not being able to cycle as much as I normally would. My poor bike thinks I've abandoned her

This is supposed to be summer

[bikerchick68]

yikes... glad you're not trying to ride in it... sounds nasty and dangerous!

In July 2004 I did a bike tour of Ireland... I was pretty surprised at how cold it was and that it rained the whole time too... when I got to London it was beautiful tho...

hope Mother Nature treats you kinder soon...

[Suzi-Sue]

This has been the most scrazy British summer EVER.

So fustrating for us cyclists suck here in the rain, floods and weather warnings

Maybe some sort of karma might happen and we will have 2months of non-stop sunshine!

[RoadRaven]

So Britain has had its week of summer then?

Seriously though, I knew you guys had had some serious weather just before the prologue - the Thames was incredibly brown - was that from all the rain too?

I hadn't realised you were still getting flooded and heavily rained on!

We're in the middle of winter here (actially, its a month past solstice now, so days are starting to get longer) but I know your frustration with not being able to get out on the bike to ride!

Be safe and I wish you dry patches and days that cooincide exactly at the time you are ready to ride...

[Python]

They reckon it's the worst summer on record so far, definitely the wettest ever. So much for the doom and gloom merchants predicting we were going to get temperatures of over 100 deg F, with people dying from heat exhaustion. They couldn't have got it more wrong if they tried

It stopped raining around 7pm and it's dried up so fast (too fast) that you wouldn't think there'd been much rain at all. Went up to the supermarket and bumped into one of our ex sales reps. He said he's homeless tonight and having to stay with friends as his apartment has been flooded and has 8 inches of water all the way through it

Our weather forecast is predicting more thunderstorms and torrential rain Saturday afternoon. Don't think I'll be going out.

[crazycanuck]

Can you send some more rain to Western Australia? We've had some nice downpours over the winter! However, if we don't receive more rain in the next few months, there will be drastic water restrictions in place over the summer.

The wheatbelt of Western Australia really really needs the rain...

Riding in the rain is ok but I get a bit tired of the webbed feet ya know..

Hope it dries out where you are.

C

[Starfish]

So Britain has had its week of summer then?

NW Washington State in the US, too. We aren't having the flooding, but I totally sympathize, Python. We did have our week of good weather...2 weeks ago.

Tomorrow I'm supposed to go out and do an 80 mile climbing training ride (the last one before my 2 week taper for my big event ride), but today the conditions were 46 degrees (at the top of the hill), 15 mph winds, 1/2 mile visibility (fog), and steady rain. It is supposed to do this for another few days.

Wish I could send the rain to the places that need it! Hang in there! I keep telling myself the sun does exist!!

[Python]

We still have main roads closed. Large sections of some of the main roads were washed away. We're lucky that we live on the top of a hill so any surface water just runs down the slope but people are still on flood alert who live in the centre of town. There is a river that runs close to a lot of houses in town and it is threatening to burst its banks.

It's stopped raining at the moment but the forecast is more heavy rain over the next couple of days.

The trouble is now because it is so wet, when the sun comes out usually in the morning it sucks up all the moisture and by mid to late afternoon we either get thunder and lightning or torrential rain. My garden is overgrown with weeds, my hedge is threatening to take over the front gate, the lawn will end up needing strimmed instead of cut with the lawnmower because we can't get out to do it.

We've had wet summers before but I've never seen one as wet as this.

But what's bothering me most:

I - CAN'T - GET - OUT- WITH - MY - BIKE!!!