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I rode today. Did you?

Nice first ride in the COLD.

 

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Permalink Reply by Gene Tenner on April 19, 2013 at 11:07am

For a few more bike commute photos from today, click here.

Permalink Reply by Mike Zumwalt on April 19, 2013 at 3:44pm

Minnesota is getting 5-7 inches according to the weather. We get ice pellets and snow! grrr.

Adam Herstein (5.5 mi) said:

Only in Chicago do you get 60 degrees and massive flooding one day, followed by snow the next.
Permalink Reply by dan brown on April 19, 2013 at 3:54pm

hey - anyone have a report on the street conditions near downtown ?  i.e. are they slippery ??

it's been sleeting, snowing off-and-on all day downtown. thanks in advance

Permalink Reply by Lisa Curcio on April 19, 2013 at 4:02pm

I am at the Daley Center with a window looking west.  Have seen almost no precipitation outside of a bit around noon.  Looking at the street I can see--Randolph and Clark--looks dry to me.
 
dan brown 4.4 miles said:

hey - anyone have a report on the street conditions near downtown ?  i.e. are they slippery ??

it's been sleeting, snowing off-and-on all day downtown. thanks in advance

Permalink Reply by dan brown on April 19, 2013 at 4:10pm

thanks. funny - I have a west view too (the chgo river) at Madison; and it's snowed/sleeted off-on all day. river-effect ?  LOL

Lisa Curcio 4.0 mi said:

I am at the Daley Center with a window looking west.  Have seen almost no precipitation outside of a bit around noon.  Looking at the street I can see--Randolph and Clark--looks dry to me.
 
dan brown 4.4 miles said:

hey - anyone have a report on the street conditions near downtown ?  i.e. are they slippery ??

it's been sleeting, snowing off-and-on all day downtown. thanks in advance

Permalink Reply by Lisa Curcio on April 19, 2013 at 4:21pm

There is a lot of water in that river right now--who knows? :-)  I am about to head out and was quite excited to see that "strong winds might be causing power outages" and winds are WSW at 23 gusting to 40.  Should be fun, especially around the tall buildings getting out of the Loop.
 
dan brown 4.4 miles said:

thanks. funny - I have a west view too (the chgo river) at Madison; and it's snowed/sleeted off-on all day. river-effect ?  LOL

Permalink Reply by Anne B. on April 19, 2013 at 4:37pm

Lakefront Trail from Lawrence to Navy Pier was fine at around 3pm. Well, fine except for occasional hail hitting me in the face and an awful headwind. But not slippery.

dan brown 4.4 miles said:

hey - anyone have a report on the street conditions near downtown ?  i.e. are they slippery ??

it's been sleeting, snowing off-and-on all day downtown. thanks in advance

Permalink Reply by Lisa Curcio on April 19, 2013 at 5:39pm

So it was dry, but whatever the precipitation was was sharp!  And it was a nasty headwind going west.

Permalink Reply by Melissa on April 19, 2013 at 6:06pm

I rode today in strong winds and light hail.  (Light, but still pretty sharp on the face.)

Permalink Reply by in it to win it 8.0 mi on April 19, 2013 at 6:25pm
Funny, the headwinds were N/S/E/W...
Permalink Reply by spencewine on April 19, 2013 at 6:52pm
I had to take the LFP north after work and swore it was coming out of the north, then came back south on Halsted and swore it was coming from the south, but when I turned west....I knew then where it was coming from. The crosswind was strong enough that it felt like its coming from all directions.
Permalink Reply by in it to win it 8.0 mi on April 20, 2013 at 7:21am
Woke up to about 1/2" of crusty snow on the ground...

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