The Great British Weather

It's been hammering it down in N1 for a good 30 minutes now. Smells awesome with the windows open. It's also taken a lot of heat out of the office. Nice.

End times in Hackney. I think we just had a years worth of hail/rain in ten seconds.

gee this is quite some storm

City seems clear. The anti-weather system we invested in is working quite well.

Unfortunately I have to head back to #plebtown at some stage.

Blazing sunshine in Westminster :)

And in the beautiful South...

We're all sunbathing in Victoria.

Clear skies and very warm in KT, took the boys over the park after school for a good sweaty run around! Big anvil shaped thunder cloud growing to the north though.

Weird hazy, humid, sticky weather here in south east London this week - with gloomy mornings, giving way to blazing sunshine in the early afternoons, then looming dark clouds, chilling gusts of wind and rain at night. Cue daily wardrobe dilemma :/ and crazy cats.

It felt/looked decidedly eery out there earlier:

tl;dr! - er, feel free to use this post as a sleep aid.

Simply biblical rain right now. I imagine that everything that got flooded yesterday in Hackney will get flooded again. Wick Road yesterday:

Middleton Road:

now in stratford
been getting heavier and heavier for about 10 mins
i'm sure there is a car floating down the street outside
it's also a good chance to see which gutters need cleaning out ... in my case all of them

well the last two days should have made up for the dryest september on record

Still dry in Brixton...

Middleton Road:

It was dry when I passed just before 6pm. I did see same scenario with two bridges by West Ham station and in Victoria Park, leaves , chestnuts and water everywhere. It was and interesting change to a daily commute.

Dry west. West is best.

meh it was nice to see some rain
head over if you want some pristine streets and lovely fresh clean air

Any deep-south dwellers on here? Mrs jimmy james and I moved out to Sutton this year, so I'm doing my first winter's commute outside the city island effect. Does it get cold enough for long enough that I should consider ice spikes? I do 3 or 4 miles at the beginning of my commute on off-road (pavement) cycle paths that almost certainly won't be gritted, so I'm getting nervous about winter.

@HatBeard knows that segment well and could maybe tell you more. But it's been a few years since studded tires were needed at all in London. Mostly, larger diameter winter tires at low pressure work fine.

Back in the very icy winter of 2010, I did try out the make-your-own-ice-tires-with-zip-ties trick. I can testify that it works very well - as long as there is snow and ice everywhere. As soon as you get back onto asphalt, you lose a zip tie every 50 metres of so.

You'll be fine, it's a little chillier but that's about it, a lots less traffic to deal with which is nice.

plan a second route using the road in case you find the cycle path to be difficult.

Get some good light too.

Thanks. Yeah I'm kind of thinking I can't be bothered with the faff anyway. Not many other route options available (or I'd take them all the time as the cycle path is a bit crap) but I can always ride on the duel carriageway if necessary, it's only a 40 limit.

Oh and Ed, lights are not a problem. I have to restrain myself from buying ever more powerful lights or un checked I'd end up looking like Traffic Droid!

You wouldn't need to, as long you kept the beam low enough to not dazzle other road user, that's all there to it.

Best thing to do is to see how it is and adapt to the change.

Blimey. Greyness is making up for lost time, as is Wetness.

It's absolutely shitting it down in Brixton... Torrents...

Great plains views these days

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