My BF told me( he lives in perth)
that he dad ridden to work and swore at one point it was hailing!
Also he said, he felt like a crazy old man( or as my friends call them in Canberra 'the nut brown old men who pass you like your a little girl) as only the dedicated old guys or crazy young women joggers were out!
He at one point, found out that there was anew lake created over the cyclepath, and was jeered at schoolboys at the window of the school near by, for not riding thru it.