May I vent???

[paintgirl]

I hear you on weather!!! Thursday, finally warm 18 degrees really windy, but so glad to be able to bike to work, did crash aat the start of ride, and tore my knee up again, I thought I had mastered clipless, apparently I regressed. But it was a great ride. i work till 7 on Thursdays, and to bike home , hearing the frogs, seeing buds on some trees, beginnings of a sunset, just wonderful. So Friday it rained 6 degrees, today rain and 2 degrees, snow or freezing rain overnight, I think I will redo my kitchen and maybe that will bring nice weather. Whenever I satart to paint it gets nice outside, I love spring, but the last few years we seem to get a crappy cool period which should be spring, and then it's 85 and humid. I love 65-70 degree stuff, oh well, what else can I rant about over which I have no control. better skies ahead

[kimba]

I hear ya!
Ontario weather has really been bizarro the last few years- 2 years ago we had !!snow!! on what it traditionally the first camping weekend of the year- The May 2-4 weekend. 2-4 of course because it is also traditional to bring a 24 pack of beer and May 24 because it is Queen Victoria's birthday. Or so they say...
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Anyway- unheard of!
My tulips just bloomed today- aren't they usually the harbingers of spring??? I seem to recall them poking their multicoloured heads out through a blanket of spring snow- like the first of March- or am I wrong????

Anyway- just pissing rain here- but at least it's warm. And maybe I'm weird- but I really don't mind riding in the rain so long as it's warm.I hate freezing cold bitter hard as nails rain. And I *especially* hate
rain in my eyes- I hates it, I says...
I carry those dopey looking googles just in case. Though I'm blind as a bat- damn age 40!!!!- without my glasses now- before at least I had close up vision but now...

Anyway- I'm sire we'll get some nice mild weather before long.

And get painting that kitchen! It's all your fault!!

Kimba

[annie]

Kimba,

I have to ask....... what do you consider really cold weather? And what do you consider warm? I think it's all relative to where one lives and what time of the year it is. If it was in the 40's in February, I would call that warm. But when it's only in the 40's in May, I call it freakin' frigidly cold! And I don't like it one bit. Still, if it's dry, I'll dress warmly and ride. Cold and dry I can handle. Warm and wet, I can handle, too. But cold and wet, that's just plain miserable!

I'm curious as to what others standards are? How bad does it have to be to keep you from riding?

[kimba]

Okay- well- since we've converted to Celsius- and I am a Farenheit baby- lets think about this...

When it is snowing here,that means it's 0-1%C - or
32 degrees F. And that's cold. Especially with a wind. Slightly higher and rainy- and it is just the crappy weather I hate. We also had hail last week. So- it's cold. And it went down to -3C I think last week as well...

now today- it was about 8 degrees C- about 48 F. Which was fine. It rained - a bit chilly but nothing I can't handle- would be a nice ride. Well- except for the rain.
Then tomorrow- it's supposed to be 8 in the afternoon falling to 3 in the evening. So- it's still pretty cold, when you consider it's May.

It should be 50- 60+ F around now.
It's not.
3 days ago- it was about 22C - which is 72F- then the next day- it snowed. It makes no sense.
I don't mind a crisp Spring day- but we don't seem to get that.It's either frigid- sub zero- - and I might add in the winter we were getting -40 degree C weather which is -40 F strangely enough.

We just haven't had a spring. I remember when it was lovely- we'd get some 50 - 60 F days about now- but nope...our weather is wacky

Kimba