Two weeks ago we had our midweek blizzard, which kept me off the bike three out of five workdays. Last week I only biked to work on Monday as the rest of the week was too cold. If the morning air temperature wasn’t below zero, the wind chill factor always was. Not having eye / upper face protection and warmer gloves for that bitter cold, I regretfully took the car. In all of January I only missed biking to work one day out of the whole month. In the past two weeks, I’ve missed seven days out of ten.
With that all said, what does this week bring weather wise? Oh, it’s just a complete reverse of weather. This week the high temperatures range from 35 – 55F with low temperatures from 15 – 35F. This past Friday the morning low was -9F with a daytime high of 25F. Two days later, Sunday’s temperatures were a low of 29F and a high of 46F. I can’t remember the last time the weather took such a swing.
By no means am I complaining though. It was nice to be able to bike home tonight without as many layers and even without a jacket. I don’t know the last time I was able to only wear a single light pair of gloves. Instead of having to slow down for slippery snow, I instead had to slow down for the giant puddles that all of that snow had caused from melting. There was enough snow melted away that I might even be able to get Ol’ Blue out and leave the burly mountain bike at home in the stable. We’ll see. Of course I’m hoping winter is behind us, but as always I’m sure there’s at least one more substantial winter storm or two coming. Knowing this crazy weather, it will probably come in April.
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