They lied

"wafflycat" <waffles*$*A**T*v21net$*££*D*O*T*co*D£$£*O*T*uk> wrote ...

Quoted message said:

They did. The weather people lied.

Today was forecast to be sunny, warm and with less wind than yesterday.
Excellent thought I as I had a 50-mile cycle ride to do.

Cue this morning - cold, strong headwind on the way out and on the way
home, cold strong crosswind/headwind... grey overcast skies, clouds
scudding along.

BAH!

Cheers, helen s

Clear and sunny where I am, but a bit cold. Should be warm enough for a
pleasant session on the road bike this afternoon.

We got a healthy dump of snow on the higher peaks last night, looks very
pretty contrasted with the changing colors of the aspens.
--
mark

Hey, no kidding. I usually hit Weather Underground and the Weather
Channel before I go to bed at night. It was supposed to be a
cool-but-tolerable 7 degrees Celsius here this morning. I woke up and
called the local weather -- 1C?! It's still September, man, I'm not
ready for this bundling up stuff! :-)

-JR

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Quoted message said:

Hey, no kidding. I usually hit Weather Underground and the Weather
Channel before I go to bed at night. It was supposed to be a
cool-but-tolerable 7 degrees Celsius here this morning. I woke up and
called the local weather -- 1C?! It's still September, man, I'm not
ready for this bundling up stuff! :-)

Mildly damp around here -- mushroom weather.

--
Warm Regards,

Claire Petersky
Personal page: http://www.geocities.com/cpetersky/
See the books I've set free at:
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wafflycat said:

They did. The weather people lied.

Today was forecast to be sunny, warm and with less wind than yesterday.
Excellent thought I as I had a 50-mile cycle ride to do.

Cue this morning - cold, strong headwind on the way out and on the way home,
cold strong crosswind/headwind... grey overcast skies, clouds scudding
along.

BAH!

Cheers, helen s

High winds, falling trees and heavy rain changing to high winds, &
bright sun (have not checked on the trees lately) but fairly warm
(14-18 C)

John Kane
Kingston ON

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Claire Petersky said:

"SlowRider" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Hey, no kidding. I usually hit Weather Underground and the Weather
Channel before I go to bed at night. It was supposed to be a
cool-but-tolerable 7 degrees Celsius here this morning. I woke up and
called the local weather -- 1C?! It's still September, man, I'm not
ready for this bundling up stuff! :-)

Mildly damp around here -- mushroom weather.

my neighbor has a giant puffball growing in the back of his property.
I'm trying to decide if i should tell him about it or steal it for
myself.

..max
tastes better stolen.

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Claire Petersky said:

"SlowRider" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Hey, no kidding. I usually hit Weather Underground and the Weather
Channel before I go to bed at night. It was supposed to be a
cool-but-tolerable 7 degrees Celsius here this morning. I woke up and
called the local weather -- 1C?! It's still September, man, I'm not
ready for this bundling up stuff! :-)

Mildly damp around here -- mushroom weather.

Vancouver has a heavy rainfall warning right now,
with the red screen on the Weather Channel 'n all.

Soup makin' weather. If I had a leg-of-lamb bone
I'd make a batch of pea soup.

cheers,
Tom

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wafflycat said:

They did. The weather people lied.

A forecast miss is not a lie. A lie is when they know it will be cold
and crappy, but the bike club gives them money to misrepresent things
so the event turnout will be good.

Happens all the time here. But it's usually more political in nature.
Withold your dues.

max said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Claire Petersky said:

Mildly damp around here -- mushroom weather.

my neighbor has a giant puffball growing in the back of his property.
I'm trying to decide if i should tell him about it or steal it for
myself.

.max
tastes better stolen.

are you serious? how does one prepare a puffer mushroom for human
consumption.

\\paul
--
Paul M. Hobson
Georgia Institute of Technology
..:change the words to numbers
if you want to reply to me:.

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Paul Hobson said:

max said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Claire Petersky said:

Mildly damp around here -- mushroom weather.

my neighbor has a giant puffball growing in the back of his property.
I'm trying to decide if i should tell him about it or steal it for
myself.

.max
tastes better stolen.

are you serious? how does one prepare a puffer mushroom for human
consumption.

They've got to be fresh, and not old and about
to explode.

I like most mushrooms just brazed. But here are
some recipes:

http://www.mssf.org/cookbook/puffballs.html

The parmesan puffballs looks interesting. As long
as the cheese doesn't overwhelm the mushroom flavour.

I also like the idea of using big, thin slices as crepes
with which to wrap seafood, for which Max's [neighbour's]
mushroom sounds ideal.

cheers,
Tom

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"wafflycat" <waffles*$*A**T*v21net$*££*D*O*T*co*D£$£*O*T*uk> wrote in
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Quoted message said:

They did. The weather people lied.

Today was forecast to be sunny, warm and with less wind than
yesterday. Excellent thought I as I had a 50-mile cycle ride to do.

Cue this morning - cold, strong headwind on the way out and on the way
home, cold strong crosswind/headwind... grey overcast skies, clouds
scudding along.

BAH!

Cheers, helen s

Wunderground.com was dead on for me. They predicted the
downpour/storm/high winds to the minute. Lucky for me; I was biking to a
funeral and was wearing a full suit and tie; got the bike secured and me
inside with 60 seconds to spare. My friends dealing with a limo (the
second limo) got drenched. My friends in the first limo were 8 minutes
behind me on a 4-mile trip.

--ag

(Tom Keats) said:

Paul Hobson said:

are you serious? how does one prepare a puffer mushroom for human
consumption.

They've got to be fresh, and not old and about
to explode.

I like most mushrooms just brazed. But here are
some recipes:

http://www.mssf.org/cookbook/puffballs.html

The parmesan puffballs looks interesting. As long
as the cheese doesn't overwhelm the mushroom flavour.

I also like the idea of using big, thin slices as crepes
with which to wrap seafood, for which Max's [neighbour's]
mushroom sounds ideal.

Mmmmmmm.... it's the steak of fungus. Now my mouth is watering, and
there can't be a puffball within a hundred miles of here. Sigh... I
miss mushroom season (though not as much as I like warm, dry winters).
;-)

Mark Hickey
Habanero Cycles
http://www.habcycles.com
Home of the $795 ti frame

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Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>,
Paul Hobson <[email hidden]> writes:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

are you serious? how does one prepare a puffer mushroom for human
consumption.

They've got to be fresh, and not old and about
to explode.

Even a touch of yellow, and you shouldn't bother, in my opinion -- should be
snowy white throughout. You should always cut a puffball in half to ensure
proper identification and freshness.

--
Warm Regards,

Claire Petersky
Personal page: http://www.geocities.com/cpetersky/
See the books I've set free at:
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I find that forecasts more than a day in advance are often useless in
gauging ride conditions. Regards, Roy Zipris

Claire Petersky said:

You should always cut a puffball in half to ensure
proper identification <snip>

What's wrong Claire? Eat one too many softballs? ;-)

Mark Hickey
Habanero Cycles
http://www.habcycles.com
Home of the $795 ti frame

wafflycat said:

They did. The weather people lied.

Today was forecast to be sunny, warm and with less wind than yesterday.
Excellent thought I as I had a 50-mile cycle ride to do.

Cue this morning - cold, strong headwind on the way out and on the way
home, cold strong crosswind/headwind... grey overcast skies, clouds
scudding along.

We're under a severe wind warning- high winds gusting up to 90k! This
morning at about 6 30 I woke up to something banging. It turns out it
was the neighbor's chair from their balcony (we have a shared balcony)
that blew all the way over! Rain as well- it's almost like a cat 1
hurricane!

John_Kane said:

wafflycat said:

They did. The weather people lied.

Today was forecast to be sunny, warm and with less wind than yesterday.
Excellent thought I as I had a 50-mile cycle ride to do.

Cue this morning - cold, strong headwind on the way out and on the way home,
cold strong crosswind/headwind... grey overcast skies, clouds scudding
along.

BAH!

Cheers, helen s

High winds, falling trees and heavy rain changing to high winds, &
bright sun (have not checked on the trees lately) but fairly warm
(14-18 C)

John Kane
Kingston ON

We're getting that in montreal-trees blown down, power failures, etc.

Tom Keats said:

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Claire Petersky said:

"SlowRider" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Hey, no kidding. I usually hit Weather Underground and the Weather
Channel before I go to bed at night. It was supposed to be a
cool-but-tolerable 7 degrees Celsius here this morning. I woke up and
called the local weather -- 1C?! It's still September, man, I'm not
ready for this bundling up stuff! :-)

Mildly damp around here -- mushroom weather.

Vancouver has a heavy rainfall warning right now,
with the red screen on the Weather Channel 'n all.

Soup makin' weather. If I had a leg-of-lamb bone
I'd make a batch of pea soup.

cheers,
Tom

Same here... i'm going to make my famous bean and barley soup.

I don't know whether you are in the US or not, but if you are I
recommend the NOAA website (www.noaa.gov). They have an excellent
local forecast section - look on the left side of the page, and type in
your city and state. It will take you to a page with current forecast
and up to the minute radar. Bookmark that page and you are good to go.
Here on the East Coast their forecasts are consistently accurate, and
you can watch the radar to see exactly where the rain is.

Incidentally, yesterday I had the pleasure of riding in a 20 mph
tailwind both to and from work - a front moved through in the middle of
the day. I felt bad for those commuting in the opposite direction, who
got a very stiff breeze in their faces morning and afternoon. Today
is beautiful - sunny, 60 degrees, no wind. (I'm in Philadelphia).

Mort

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mort said:

I don't know whether you are in the US or not, but if you are I
recommend the NOAA website (www.noaa.gov). They have an excellent
local forecast section

I think she's British, so that won't help her much.

Neither will knowing that Environment Canada has something comparable
at http://weather.ec.gc.ca/ , but that'll at least help the Canadians.

Hmm... EC has a link from their Canada map page for world weather, and
that takes you to a page that refers to NOAA for the USA and also to
http://www.worldweather.org/ for worldwide reports/forecasts. That might
be more useful for people outside of North America.

Quoted message said:

Incidentally, yesterday I had the pleasure of riding in a 20 mph
tailwind both to and from work - a front moved through in the middle of
the day. I felt bad for those commuting in the opposite direction, who
got a very stiff breeze in their faces morning and afternoon. Today
is beautiful - sunny, 60 degrees, no wind. (I'm in Philadelphia).

ObBike: EC is telling me I should have a slight tailwind for my 70km-ish
ride tomorrow morning, down from 20km/h this evening and picking up to
20 again late morning. 'Twill be nice if they're wrong about it dying
down overnight...
('Twill also be nice if going from an occasional 40-50km day to a 70km
ride is as relatively-pleasant as the first 50km day was after rarely
doing more than 20. At least this time I'm making sure I have lots of
water and simple carbs with me; lack thereof is what made the last 2km
of the 50km day Somewhat Unpleasant.)

dave

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mutter ncurses under my breath.
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