Found this neat wind map today. You can zoom onto a location.
http://hint.fm/wind/
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04-03-2012, 09:06 AM #1
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Head wind?
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04-03-2012, 09:10 AM #2
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Lies...I always seem to have a headwind when I ride. I swear Mother Nature sits and laughs at me as I curse her!
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04-03-2012, 09:35 AM #3
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I also always feel like I'm riding into a headwind!! And there's always that pesky shifting wind problem... Go out into the wind and when you head back... what? the wind has shifted? I'd take hills any day - at least they have an endpoint.
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04-03-2012, 09:57 AM #4
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I was out for a brutal windy ride last week with a friend. We kept consoling ourselves that we'd have a nice tail wind on the way back. Curses, that dang wind shifted and battled us the entire way home.
Originally Posted by zoom-zoom
Lies...I always seem to have a headwind when I ride. I swear Mother Nature sits and laughs at me as I curse her!2005 Giant TCR2
2012 Trek Superfly Elite AL 2nd Sport, Pando Fall Challenge 2011 and 3rd Expert Peak2Peak 2011
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04-03-2012, 10:42 AM #5
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You folks from west Michigan have some serious wind coming off the lake. I have done quite a few centuries on that side of the state and the wind is brutal. Always!
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04-03-2012, 10:43 AM #6
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Oh yeah, light and variable. Light? whatever!
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04-03-2012, 10:47 AM #7
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It's stupid wind. Limewave isn't kidding...I swear I can plan a ride so that I ride into a headwind, then turn and coast home...but it NEVER happens! And frequently the ride home is uphill, too! Originally Posted by beccaB
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04-03-2012, 06:13 PM #8
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Unbeknownst to all of us, every road bike is equipped with an great big huge invisible fan which is rigged to blow directly in our faces. This means that no matter how carefully you plan your route so that you ride out into the wind and ride back, it will never ever happen. This also why you can ride a circular route or a triangular route or a square route or any sort of route with and without trees to break the wind and still have a headwind.
Somewhere up there the fates are laughing.
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04-04-2012, 08:24 PM #9
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It is mesmerizing. Thanks
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04-04-2012, 08:54 PM #10
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I loved the wind map- I shared it with students today.
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04-07-2012, 07:22 AM #11
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Just had my butt kicked by winds, and was wiped out after only five miles. I gotta get in better shape.
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04-08-2012, 06:51 AM #12
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Love the wind map! I just wish it would show LOW winds where I'm going to be riding. Not the case today, sigh...... looking at 17-25- mph. Again.
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