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Dust Off Those Studs....

Up to six inches of snow on Monday!


bjanaszek
2012-04-21 22:46:44

Wtf, April weather?


stefb
2012-04-21 22:57:27

Pittsburgh snowfall records


APRIL

12.7" April 3, 1901

11.2" April 8, 1902

5.4" April 4, 1987

4.0" April 10, 1918

3.9" April 18, 1953


quizbot
2012-04-22 01:22:52

HAH, I JUST took my studs last week off my mountain bike thinking I was being lazy doing so.


dmtroyer
2012-04-22 13:38:28

at the blessing of the bikes today, i prayed super hard to the weather gods that the snow will just miss pittsburgh. then again, maybe having the holy water frozen to my new ride for a few days would be good for it.


parvipica
2012-04-22 19:55:01

Ugh I don't want to ride all the way to Squirrel Hill with the studs on just for there to be no snow.


ken-kaminski
2012-04-23 13:21:38

I refuse to believe there will be very much snow, and it doesn't look like it will get below freezing. (to be fair, I stuck with [wider than I normally ride] slicks through the winter) It does look like it will be wet and cold, but I don't think that we will actually get snow sticking on the ground or ice. Gross, yes, stud worthy, no? I don't know a lot?


aryn
2012-04-23 14:19:37

Weather to come is now saying "No significant accumulations of snow", and there is no longer a warning posted.


Damn it, I was hoping to qualify for Rule #9 today.


myddrin
2012-04-23 16:25:58

FWIW, I ended up coming in by motorcycle, in full rain gear. I stayed dry, but my hands froze despite gloves, and I had trouble seeing, both from rain on the outside and fog on the inside.


Bus, bike or vroom, there is just no nice way to deal with a 37-degree rain.


stuinmccandless
2012-04-23 17:08:58

As I said to another cyclist on the jail trail this morning, the only weather I dislike worse than 37 and rain is 32 and rain.

His reply was "It's not that bad."


True.


helen-s
2012-04-23 21:44:11

it's this gusty, unpredictable wind i can't stand.


parvipica
2012-04-23 22:44:25