I’m trying not to complain but (Page 2)

Yup, usually in my neck of the woods we're experiencing nice spring weather right about now (mid 70s and sunny). But yesterday on a supported ride I had to bust out my winter tights, two pairs of gloves and my ear warmers. I brought my balaclava but decided against it, and my face is paying the wind-chapped price.

The weatherman even said Saturday night it was going to be very "unwarm" in the next few days

We are setting records for the coldest, wettest spring ever.  The hourly forecast on WeatherChannel.com has become one of my most important training tools - think I'll go to the pool today.

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It's nasty, nasty, nasty ....

Yesterday I did 3 hours on the trainer.

WTF??

Currently it is 6C with a 25 kph north wind.

Will summer EVER come this year? 

Its cold in Southern California,  I tend not to ride when its below 65 but I'm going to have to make that exception to get some real miles.  It was worse last year; the weather wasn't as bad but it rained on the weekends almost religiously.

Woe is me

I know!!

But that cold rain, those high winds......I could not face three hours of that. 

As someone who grew up in New Orleans all I can do is chuckle when I see an example of 1"/week as an example of high rainfall amounts.  I've seen rainfall in May in NO well over 20" (over 30" in one May a while back if memory serves). 

6" of rain is a decent amount for a day or two.  Those numbers in NO over six weeks would be drought-like. ;-)

LOL!  My boyfriend is from LaFayette and he says that the difference between summer and winter in South Louisiana is that in summer it rains every day and winter it rains all the time. 

I will volunteer to start the complaining for the PNW

Sick of the gray, rain and cold. We didn't have much of a summer last year, hopefully this year will be better.

Actually climate change theory predicts more extreme weather, so any abnormal weather changes (colder/hotter than usual, more/less rainfall than usual, etc) is actually made worse by you idling your car.  While overall global temperatures are on the rise, the most devastating effects are more extreme storms, flooding, temperature extremes, droughts, etc.

The global climate is a pretty complicated system.

I'm not complaining.  I had the worlds best luck with the rain on Sat.  Got in a metric in the morning, and although it looked threatening a few times, it never rained till I was on my way home.  Then it poured like G*d's own fire hose, till I got home.  Then it cleared up enough that I got a motorcycle ride in, too.

PS- A bike ride before a bike ride makes for some interesting tender bits.

I just got in from riding home in the pouring rain.  It's bike week here in Boston, so I was trying to tough out the weather. I think I've suffered enough for this week, though. Any additional biking will be on the trainer.

At least I don't have to water the garden!

i'll tell you where its summer, MIAMI....it was 87 degrees today...

Yep. It's been cooler than usual, but since usual is over 100 degrees, that's ok with me. Give us another month & the rides will be starting at 4:30am to avoid heat stroke. And I've come to the conclusion that is it always windy in Vegas. Doesn't bother me anymore.